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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES ALP000257

UNITED LAUNCH ALLIANCE, LLC-DECATUR OPERATIONS, Decatur, AL: NPDES ALP000257 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

UNITED LAUNCH ALLIANCE, LLC-DECATUR OPERATIONS, held by United Launch Alliance LLC, holds NPDES permit ALP000257. EPA’s file records it issued March 24, 2020 and expiring March 31, 2025. The status and dates are as EPA’s permit file stood when Velarion loaded it (October 14, 2026); EPA’s free Detailed Facility Report on ECHO carries the permit’s current standing.

What the register holds for UNITED LAUNCH ALLIANCE, LLC-DECATUR OPERATIONS: its NPDES ID, its permit type and status, its dates, its address in Decatur, Alabama, and 19 pollutants under a numeric limit. EPA’s effluent violation file and its single-event violation file hold no violation for NPDES ALP000257.

Identity

Facility as filedUNITED LAUNCH ALLIANCE, LLC-DECATUR OPERATIONS
Permittee as filedUnited Launch Alliance LLC
NPDES IDALP000257
Permit statusAdministratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit typeIndividual industrial user permit
Discharger classMinor discharger
Facility typeNot a publicly owned treatment works
IssuedMarch 24, 2020
Expiration dateMarch 31, 2025
AddressDecatur, AL 35602
NAICS336414 – Guided Missile and Space Vehicle Manufacturing
SIC3761 – Guided Missiles And Space Vehicles
Other EPA IDs (FRS)RCRA handler ALR000009365; ICIS-AIR source AL0000000110300071

Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES permit file (ECHO download) and EPA’s NAICS/SIC and component files, the same download; cross-program IDs from EPA’s FRS facility-registry crosswalk.

Effluent limits and exceedances

An effluent exceedance is a discharge monitoring report value over the permit’s numeric limit (EPA’s violation code E90). A violation of any kind also counts a report not filed. Each row is EPA’s own count for that pollutant.

Pollutant or measureLimitsViolations, any kindEffluent exceedancesLatest exceedanceLargest exceedance, as filed
pH200
Phosphorus, total [as P]200
Cyanide, total [as CN]200
Cadmium, total [as Cd]200
Chromium, total [as Cr]200
Copper, total [as Cu]200
Lead, total [as Pb]200
Nickel, total [as Ni]200
Silver, total [as Ag]200
Zinc, total [as Zn]200
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant200
Sulfate [as S]100
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C100
Solids, total suspended100
Oil & Grease100
Molybdenum, total [as Mo]100
Solids, total dissolved100
Total toxic organics [TTO] [40 CFR433]100
Chemical Oxygen Demand [COD]100

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES ALP000257.

Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES limits and effluent violations files (ECHO download); up to 60 rows shown, most exceedances first.

Inspections, violations and enforcement

EPA’s single-event violation file, as loaded, holds no violation for NPDES ALP000257.

Velarion’s copy of EPA’s ICIS-NPDES files does not include the inspections, formal enforcement actions and informal enforcement actions files, so this page shows none of them. EPA’s free Detailed Facility Report on ECHO lists this permit’s inspections, enforcement actions and penalties.

Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES violation, inspection and enforcement files (ECHO download); up to 50 rows of each shown, newest first.

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What this page shows

This public-records page covers Clean Water Act discharge permit NPDES ALP000257, held by United Launch Alliance LLC for its UNITED LAUNCH ALLIANCE, LLC-DECATUR OPERATIONS facility in Decatur, AL, and lists 19 pollutants under a numeric limit and 0 pollutants with an effluent exceedance. The permit is shown as administratively continued, with a Minor discharger class and an issue date of March 24, 2020, and an expiration date of March 31, 2025.