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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES AZMS80944

FREEPORT MCMORAN SIERRITA MINE, Green Valley, AZ: NPDES AZMS80944 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

FREEPORT MCMORAN SIERRITA MINE, held by Freeport-Mcmoran Sierrita, Inc., holds NPDES permit AZMS80944. EPA’s file records it issued February 24, 2020 and expiring December 30, 2024. The status and dates are as EPA’s permit file stood when Velarion loaded it (September 15, 2026); EPA’s free Detailed Facility Report on ECHO carries the permit’s current standing.

What the register holds for FREEPORT MCMORAN SIERRITA MINE: its NPDES ID, its permit type and status, its dates, its address in Green Valley, Arizona. EPA’s effluent violation file and its single-event violation file hold no violation for NPDES AZMS80944.

Identity

Facility as filedFREEPORT MCMORAN SIERRITA MINE
Permittee as filedFreeport-Mcmoran Sierrita, Inc.
NPDES IDAZMS80944
Permit statusAdministratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit typeCoverage under a general permit
Discharger classMinor discharger
Facility typeNot a publicly owned treatment works
IssuedFebruary 24, 2020
Expiration dateDecember 30, 2024
AddressGreen Valley, AZ 85622
SubwatershedDemetrie Wash (HUC 150503010603)
Other EPA IDs (FRS)RCRA handler AZD982478216; ICIS-AIR source AZPMC00004019P6067

Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES permit file (ECHO download); cross-program IDs from EPA’s FRS facility-registry crosswalk.

Effluent limits and exceedances

EPA’s limits and effluent violation files hold no pollutant row for NPDES AZMS80944.

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 AZMS80944.

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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Nearby on the register

Figures from EPA’s ICIS-NPDES download, loaded September 15, 2026.

What this page shows

The FREEPORT MCMORAN SIERRITA MINE sits among three NPDES permits in the Demetrie Wash subwatershed, this one included. Of all 105 general permit coverages in Pima County, this permit was issued earlier than 37.1% of them. None of the 105 Pima County coverages has a violation on file, at 0.0%.