Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES IN0000591

BUNGE NORTH AMERICA (EAST), LLC, Decatur, IN: NPDES IN0000591 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
7Pollutants under a numeric limit
6Pollutants with an effluent exceedance
1Inspections on file
0Formal enforcement actions

BUNGE NORTH AMERICA (EAST), LLC holds NPDES permit IN0000591, which discharges to St Mary'S River. EPA’s file records it issued January 27, 2017 and expiring March 31, 2022. 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	BUNGE NORTH AMERICA (EAST), LLC
Permittee as filed	BUNGE NORTH AMERICA (EAST), LLC
NPDES ID	IN0000591
Permit status	Administratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit type	Individual permit
Discharger class	Minor discharger
Facility type	Not a publicly owned treatment works
Issued	January 27, 2017
Expiration date	March 31, 2022
Issuing agency	IDEM
Address	Decatur, IN 46733
Receiving water	ST MARY'S RIVER
Subwatershed	City of Decatur-Saint Marys River (HUC 041000040408)
SIC	2075 – Soybean Oil Mills
Other EPA IDs (FRS)	RCRA handler IND005129499; ICIS-AIR source IN0000001800100005

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

9Pollutants on file
7Under a numeric limit
9With 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
Solids, total suspended	2	94	72	February 28, 2026	340% over the limit
Oil and grease, hexane extr method	2	27	15	August 31, 2025	53% over the limit
Chlorine, total residual	0	16	14	October 31, 1992	200% over the limit
Phosphorus, total [as P]	2	18	9	March 31, 2025	170% over the limit
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C	2	26	4	April 30, 2018	405% over the limit
Oil & Grease	0	12	2	January 31, 1992	65% over the limit
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	2	23	0
pH	2	18	0
Flow, total	1	12	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

1Single-event violations

Date	What EPA recorded	Agency
March 19, 2026	Effluent Violations - Numeric effluent violation	ST6

Inspections

Date	What EPA recorded	Agency
March 19, 2026	Evaluation	S

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

Date	What EPA recorded	Agency
March 19, 2026	Notice of Noncompliance Issued	State

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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Figures from EPA’s ICIS-NPDES download, loaded October 14, 2026.

This public-records page covers Clean Water Act discharge permit NPDES IN0000591, held by BUNGE NORTH AMERICA (EAST), LLC of Decatur, IN, which discharges to ST MARY'S RIVER and is administratively continued as a Minor discharger. The permit's file records it as issued January 27, 2017 and expiring March 31, 2022, with 7 pollutants under a numeric limit and 6 pollutants with an effluent exceedance.