Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES LA0001287

STERLING SUGAR LLC, Franklin, LA: NPDES LA0001287 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
5Pollutants under a numeric limit
0Pollutants with an effluent exceedance
0Inspections on file
0Formal enforcement actions

STERLING SUGAR LLC, held by STERLING SUGARS LLC, holds NPDES permit LA0001287. EPA’s file records it issued September 22, 2015 and expiring October 31, 2020. 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	STERLING SUGAR LLC
Permittee as filed	STERLING SUGARS LLC
NPDES ID	LA0001287
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	September 22, 2015
Expiration date	October 31, 2020
Address	Franklin, LA 70538
Subwatershed	Yellow Bayou-Bayou Teche (HUC 080801020904)
SIC	2061 – Raw Cane Sugar
Other EPA IDs (FRS)	RCRA handler LAD985227693; ICIS-AIR source LA0000002210100001

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

5Pollutants on file
5Under 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
Oxygen, dissolved [DO]	4	0	0
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C	4	0	0
pH	4	0	0
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	4	0	0
Solids, total suspended	2	0	0

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES LA0001287.

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

7Single-event violations

Date	What EPA recorded	Agency
November 30, 2022	Monitoring Violations - Improper Analysis or Lab Error	ST6
May 4, 2020	Permit Violations - Failure to Submit Timely Permit Renewal Application	ST6
February 1, 2018	Effluent Violations - Unauthorized Discharge	ST6
January 29, 2018	WW Storm Water Non-Construction - Failure to Conduct Inspections	ST6
January 29, 2018	WW Storm Water Non-Construction - Failure to Implement SWPPP/SWMP	ST6
December 31, 2017	Monitoring Violations - Invalid/Unrepresentative Sample	ST6
January 31, 2017	Monitoring Violations - Invalid/Unrepresentative Sample	ST6

Inspections

EPA’s inspection file holds no inspection for NPDES LA0001287.

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 LA0001287.

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 NPDES permit LA0001287, held by STERLING SUGAR LLC in Franklin, LA, and lists it as administratively continued with a minor discharger class of 5. The page reports 0 pollutants under a numeric limit and 0 pollutants with an effluent exceedance, with the permit issued September 22, 2015 and expiring October 31, 2020.