Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES LA0111180

VALENTRA INDUSTRIALS, LLC - GEISMAR FACILITY, Geismar, LA: NPDES LA0111180 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
8Pollutants under a numeric limit
1Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

VALENTRA INDUSTRIALS, LLC - GEISMAR FACILITY, held by HEXION INC., holds NPDES permit LA0111180, which discharges to Miss River. EPA’s file records it issued April 25, 2016 and expiring May 31, 2021. 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	VALENTRA INDUSTRIALS, LLC - GEISMAR FACILITY
Permittee as filed	HEXION INC.
NPDES ID	LA0111180
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	April 25, 2016
Expiration date	May 31, 2021
Address	Geismar, LA 70734
Receiving water	MISS RIVER
Receiving water impaired	303(D) Listed
Subwatershed	Grand Goudine Bayou-New River (HUC 080702040103)
SIC	2869 – Industrial Organic Chemicals
Other EPA IDs (FRS)	RCRA handler LAR000044172; ICIS-AIR source LA0000002200500082

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
8Under a numeric limit
9With a violation of any kind
1With 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
Carbon, tot organic [TOC]	2	4	1	September 30, 2018	37% over the limit
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	12	36	0
pH	4	10	0
Solids, total suspended	4	6	0
Coliform, fecal general	2	6	0
Oil & Grease	2	4	0
Temperature, water deg. fahrenheit	1	3	0
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C	2	2	0
Sulfate, total [as SO4]	0	2	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 LA0111180.

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 page covers the NPDES LA0111180 discharge permit held by Valentra Industrials, LLC's Geismar facility in Geismar, LA, which discharges to the Miss River and is administratively continued, with a discharger class of Minor and 8 pollutants under a numeric limit. The register lists 1 pollutant with an effluent exceedance, and the permit's issue date of April 25, 2016 and expiration date of May 31, 2021 are given as they stood in EPA's file on October 14, 2026.