Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES MI0000892

NEENAH PAPER-MUNISING PAPER, Munising, MI: NPDES MI0000892 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MajorDischarger class
8Pollutants under a numeric limit
4Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

NEENAH PAPER-MUNISING PAPER, held by Neenah Paper Michigan, Incorporated, holds NPDES permit MI0000892, which discharges to Lake Superior. EPA’s file records it issued December 7, 2012 and expiring October 1, 2016. The status and dates are as EPA’s permit file stood when Velarion loaded it (September 15, 2026); EPA’s free Detailed Facility Report on ECHO carries the permit’s current standing.

Identity

Facility as filed	NEENAH PAPER-MUNISING PAPER
Permittee as filed	Neenah Paper Michigan, Incorporated
NPDES ID	MI0000892
Permit status	Administratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit type	Individual permit
Discharger class	Major discharger
Facility type	Not a publicly owned treatment works
Issued	December 7, 2012
Expiration date	October 1, 2016
Issuing agency	State
Address	Munising, MI 49862
Receiving water	Lake Superior
Other EPA IDs (FRS)	RCRA handler MID006138572; ICIS-AIR source MI00000000000B1470

Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES permit file (ECHO 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
4With 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
Copper, total [as Cu]	10	82	30	February 29, 2020	132% over the limit
Oxygen, dissolved [DO]	1	5	3	September 30, 2025	33% over the limit
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C	2	16	2	April 30, 2023	99,999% over the limit
pH	2	15	1	July 31, 2024
Mercury, total [as Hg]	0	26	0
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	2	15	0
Solids, total suspended	2	14	0
Temperature, water deg. fahrenheit	1	7	0
Outfall observation,visual, y/n response	1	7	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

4Single-event violations

Date	What EPA recorded	Agency
November 30, 2021	Permit Violations - Discharge Without a Valid Permit	ST6
November 21, 2021	Reporting Violations - Late Submittal of DMRs	ST6
February 21, 2019	Reporting Violations - Late Submittal of DMRs	ST6
November 21, 2017	Reporting Violations - Late Submittal of DMRs	ST6

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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Figures from EPA’s ICIS-NPDES download, loaded September 15, 2026.

This public-records page covers NPDES permit MI0000892 held by Neenah Paper Michigan, Incorporated for NEENAH PAPER-MUNISING PAPER in Munising, MI, which discharges to Lake Superior and is listed as administratively continued with a Major discharger class. The page lists 8 pollutants under a numeric limit and 4 pollutants with an effluent exceedance.