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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES GAJ010564

BOBBY C. SMITH JR. ENERGY FACILITY (FORMERLY EFFINGHAM ENERGY FACILITY), Rincon, GA: NPDES GAJ010564 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

BOBBY C. SMITH JR. ENERGY FACILITY (FORMERLY EFFINGHAM ENERGY FACILITY), held by Oglethorpe Power Corporation, holds NPDES permit GAJ010564. EPA’s file records it issued May 3, 2017 and expiring June 30, 2022.

BOBBY C. SMITH JR. ENERGY FACILITY (FORMERLY EFFINGHAM ENERGY FACILITY), Rincon, Georgia: State-issued individual permit GAJ010564, held by Oglethorpe Power Corporation; Administratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued); issued May 3, 2017, term to June 30, 2022.

  • August 6, 2026: Evaluation (S).

Other permits held by Oglethorpe Power Corporation

BOBBY C. SMITH JR. ENERGY FACILITY (FORMERLY EFFINGHAM ENERGY FACILITY) among its neighbors

EPA’s permit file holds 170 discharge permits in the Wilmington River subwatershed (HUC 030602040101), GAJ010564 among them. Its county holds 23, 2 of them major permits; GAJ010564 is a minor permit.

Other permits in the Wilmington River subwatershed (HUC 030602040101)

Identity

Facility as filedBOBBY C. SMITH JR. ENERGY FACILITY (FORMERLY EFFINGHAM ENERGY FACILITY)
Permittee as filedOglethorpe Power Corporation
NPDES IDGAJ010564
Permit statusAdministratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit typeState-issued individual permit
Discharger classMinor discharger
Facility typeNot a publicly owned treatment works
IssuedMay 3, 2017
Expiration dateJune 30, 2022
AddressRincon, GA 31326
SubwatershedWilmington River (HUC 030602040101)
Other EPA IDs (FRS)RCRA handler GAR000029744; ICIS-AIR source GA0000001310300012

Effluent limits and exceedances

EPA’s limits and effluent violation files hold no pollutant row for NPDES GAJ010564.

Inspections, violations and enforcement

EPA’s single-event violation file, as loaded, holds no violation for NPDES GAJ010564.

Inspections

DateWhat EPA recordedAgency
August 6, 2026EvaluationS

Formal enforcement and penalties

0 formal actions, 0 of them with a penalty assessed. Federal and state penalties are separate figures from separate authorities and are shown as each was filed, never added together.

Informal enforcement

EPA’s informal enforcement file holds no action for NPDES GAJ010564.

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

What this page shows

The BOBBY C. SMITH JR. ENERGY FACILITY (FORMERLY EFFINGHAM ENERGY FACILITY) is one of 5 state-issued individual permits on EPA's NPDES register in Effingham County, Georgia, and 60.0% of those 5 permits were issued earlier than this one. Among the 170 NPDES permits in the Wilmington River subwatershed, it records no pollutants under a numeric limit and no pollutants with an effluent exceedance.