Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES CAZ478737

THIN FILM ELECTRONICS, San Jose, CA: NPDES CAZ478737 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
0Pollutants under a numeric limit
0Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

THIN FILM ELECTRONICS, held by Thinfilm Electronics, holds NPDES permit CAZ478737. EPA’s file records it issued October 4, 2016 and expiring June 30, 2020. 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 THIN FILM ELECTRONICS: its NPDES ID, its permit type and status, its dates, its address in San Jose, California. EPA’s effluent violation file and its single-event violation file hold no violation for NPDES CAZ478737.

Identity

Facility as filed	THIN FILM ELECTRONICS
Permittee as filed	Thinfilm Electronics
NPDES ID	CAZ478737
Permit status	Administratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit type	Coverage under a general permit
Discharger class	Minor discharger
Facility type	Not a publicly owned treatment works
Program	Industrial stormwater
Issued	October 4, 2016
Expiration date	June 30, 2020
Issuing agency	CA Waterboards
Address	San Jose, CA 95134
Subwatershed	Canoas Creek (HUC 180500030302)
Other EPA IDs (FRS)	RCRA handler CAR000267989

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

Effluent limits and exceedances

0Pollutants on file
0Under a numeric limit
0With a violation of any kind
0With an effluent exceedance

EPA’s limits and effluent violation files hold no pollutant row for NPDES CAZ478737.

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

0Single-event violations

EPA’s single-event violation file, as loaded, holds no violation for NPDES CAZ478737.

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.

THIN FILM ELECTRONICS, a Storm Water Industrial general permit coverage in San Jose, California, is one of 2 NPDES permits in the Canoas Creek subwatershed, and one of 13 storm water industrial permits in San Jose on EPA's register. The permit records no pollutants under a numeric limit and no pollutants with an effluent exceedance, and 0.0% of the 13 San Jose storm water industrial permits have a violation on file, while 91.7% of the 12 San Jose storm water industrial permits, this one included, were issued earlier than it.