Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES IN0062944

VALERO RENEWABLE FUELS COMPANY, LLC - BLUFFTON, Bluffton, IN: NPDES IN0062944 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
15Pollutants under a numeric limit
3Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

VALERO RENEWABLE FUELS COMPANY, LLC - BLUFFTON holds NPDES permit IN0062944, which discharges to Oh/Wabash/Bills Crk (Markley Dtch)/Schwartz Ditch. EPA’s file records it issued August 31, 2017 and expiring September 30, 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	VALERO RENEWABLE FUELS COMPANY, LLC - BLUFFTON
Permittee as filed	VALERO RENEWABLE FUELS COMPANY, LLC - BLUFFTON
NPDES ID	IN0062944
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	August 31, 2017
Expiration date	September 30, 2022
Issuing agency	IDEM
Address	Bluffton, IN 46714
Receiving water	OH/WABASH/BILLS CRK (MARKLEY DTCH)/SCHWARTZ DITCH
Subwatershed	Johns Creek-Wabash River (HUC 051201010801)
SIC	2869 – Industrial Organic Chemicals
Other EPA IDs (FRS)	RCRA handler INR000150151; ICIS-AIR source IN0000001817900033

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

15Pollutants on file
15Under a numeric limit
15With a violation of any kind
3With 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
Chloride [as Cl]	2	9	4	November 30, 2022	366% over the limit
Chlorine, total residual	2	8	4	April 30, 2022	117% over the limit
Sulfate, total [as SO4]	2	6	1	January 31, 2018	64% over the limit
pH	4	5	0
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	2	4	0
Chemical Oxygen Demand [COD]	2	2	0
Storm water flow	2	2	0
Temperature, water deg. fahrenheit	1	2	0
Flow, total	1	2	0
Solids, total suspended	2	1	0
Oil and grease, hexane extr method	2	1	0
Nitrogen, Kjeldahl, total [as N]	2	1	0
Nitrite + Nitrate total [as N]	2	1	0
Phosphorus, total [as P]	2	1	0
BOD, carbonaceous [5 day, 20 C]	2	1	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 IN0062944.

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 IN0062944 held by VALERO RENEWABLE FUELS COMPANY, LLC - BLUFFTON, listed as administratively continued with a Minor Discharger class. The page lists 15 as the discharger class, 3 pollutants under a numeric limit, and 3 pollutants with an effluent exceedance, with the permit issued August 31, 2017 and expiring September 30, 2022.