Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES GAP050342

SK BATTERY AMERICA, Commerce, GA: NPDES GAP050342 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
15Pollutants under a numeric limit
6Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

SK BATTERY AMERICA, held by SK Battery America, holds NPDES permit GAP050342. EPA’s file records it issued December 20, 2022 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.

Identity

Facility as filed	SK BATTERY AMERICA
Permittee as filed	SK Battery America
NPDES ID	GAP050342
Permit status	Administratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit type	Individual industrial user permit
Discharger class	Minor discharger
Facility type	Not a publicly owned treatment works
Issued	December 20, 2022
Expiration date	March 31, 2025
Address	Commerce, GA 30529
NAICS	335911 – Storage Battery Manufacturing
SIC	3691 – Storage Batteries

Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES permit file (ECHO download) and EPA’s NAICS/SIC and component files, the same download.

Effluent limits and exceedances

15Pollutants on file
15Under a numeric limit
6With a violation of any kind
6With an effluent exceedance

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 measure	Limits	Violations, any kind	Effluent exceedances	Latest exceedance	Largest exceedance, as filed
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	2	16	16	October 31, 2023	193% over the limit
pH	4	13	13	April 30, 2025
Nickel, total [as Ni]	2	9	9	April 30, 2026	3,730% over the limit
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C	2	2	2	February 28, 2023	118% over the limit
Iron, total [as Fe]	2	2	2	December 31, 2025	143% over the limit
Zinc, total [as Zn]	2	2	2	December 31, 2025	34% over the limit
Solids, total suspended	2	0	0
Nitrogen, Kjeldahl, total [as N]	2	0	0
Phosphorus, total [as P]	2	0	0
Barium, total [as Ba]	2	0	0
Cadmium, total [as Cd]	2	0	0
Copper, total [as Cu]	2	0	0
Lead, total [as Pb]	2	0	0
Manganese, total [as Mn]	2	0	0
Mercury, total [as Hg]	2	0	0

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 GAP050342.

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 October 14, 2026.

This public-records page covers NPDES permit GAP050342, held by SK Battery America at Commerce, GA, which EPA's file lists as administratively continued, with a minor discharger class. The facts list 15 pollutants on file, 6 of them under a numeric limit, and 6 with an effluent exceedance.