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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES MDG870543

JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY - APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY, Laurel, MD: NPDES MDG870543 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY - APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY, held by Johns Hopkins University - Applied Physics Laboratory, holds NPDES permit MDG870543, which discharges to Middle Patuxent River. EPA’s file records it issued May 29, 2025 and expiring May 29, 2026. 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 JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY - APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY: its NPDES ID, its permit type and status, its dates, its address in Laurel, Maryland, its receiving water. EPA’s effluent violation file and its single-event violation file hold no violation for NPDES MDG870543.

Identity

Facility as filedJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY - APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY
Permittee as filedJohns Hopkins University - Applied Physics Laboratory
NPDES IDMDG870543
Permit statusAdministratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit typeCoverage under a general permit
Discharger classMinor discharger
Facility typeNot a publicly owned treatment works
IssuedMay 29, 2025
Expiration dateMay 29, 2026
Issuing agencyMARYLAND DEPARTMENT OF THE ENVIRONMENT
AddressLaurel, MD 21044
Receiving waterMiddle Patuxent River
SubwatershedBenson Branch-Middle Patuxent River (HUC 020600060201)

Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES permit file (ECHO download).

Effluent limits and exceedances

EPA’s limits and effluent violation files hold no pollutant row for NPDES MDG870543.

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

EPA’s single-event violation file, as loaded, holds no violation for NPDES MDG870543.

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.

What this page shows

The JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY - APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY general permit coverage, NPDES ID MDG870543, sits among 68 general permit coverages in Howard County, and it is one of 10 NPDES permits in the Benson Branch-Middle Patuxent River subwatershed, this one included. Of all 67 general permit coverages in Howard County (this one included), 91.0% were issued earlier than this permit, which was issued May 29, 2025. Among those 68 Howard County general permit coverages, 41.2% have a violation on file, while this permit has none of the pollutants under a numeric limit or effluent exceedances on record.