Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES INRM00938

PACKAGING CORPORATION OF AMERICA (PCA), Gas City, IN: NPDES INRM00938 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

EffectivePermit status
MinorDischarger class
8Pollutants under a numeric limit
0Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

PACKAGING CORPORATION OF AMERICA (PCA), held by Packaging Corporation of America (PCA), holds NPDES permit INRM00938, which discharges to Mississinewa River. EPA’s file records it issued June 5, 2020 and expiring September 8, 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.

What the register holds for PACKAGING CORPORATION OF AMERICA (PCA): its NPDES ID, its permit type and status, its dates, its address in Gas City, Indiana, its receiving water, and 8 pollutants under a numeric limit. EPA’s effluent violation file and its single-event violation file hold no violation for NPDES INRM00938.

Identity

Facility as filed	PACKAGING CORPORATION OF AMERICA (PCA)
Permittee as filed	Packaging Corporation of America (PCA)
NPDES ID	INRM00938
Permit status	Effective
Permit type	Individual permit
Discharger class	Minor discharger
Facility type	Not a publicly owned treatment works
Program	Industrial stormwater
Issued	June 5, 2020
Expiration date	September 8, 2025
Issuing agency	IDEM
Address	Gas City, IN 46933
Receiving water	Mississinewa River
Subwatershed	Branch Creek-Mississinewa River (HUC 051201030510)
NAICS	322211 – Corrugated and Solid Fiber Box Manufacturing
SIC	2653 – Corrugated And Solid Fiber Boxes
Other EPA IDs (FRS)	RCRA handler IND006418107

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

8Pollutants on file
8Under a numeric limit
0With a violation of any kind
0With 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
pH	2	0	0
Solids, total suspended	2	0	0
Oil and grease, hexane extr method	2	0	0
Nitrogen, Kjeldahl, total [as N]	2	0	0
Nitrite + Nitrate total [as N]	2	0	0
Phosphorus, total [as P]	2	0	0
BOD, carbonaceous [5 day, 20 C]	2	0	0
Chemical Oxygen Demand [COD]	2	0	0

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES INRM00938.

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 INRM00938.

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 INRM00938, held by Packaging Corporation of America (PCA) in Gas City, Indiana, with a status of Effective and a Minor discharger class, and it lists 8 pollutants under a numeric limit and 0 pollutants with an effluent exceedance. The permit was issued June 5, 2020 and carries an expiration date of September 8, 2025, as of the date EPA's permit file was loaded.