Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES MI0003166

UP PAPER LLC, Manistique, MI: NPDES MI0003166 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MajorDischarger class
16Pollutants under a numeric limit
7Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

UP PAPER LLC, held by UP Paper LLC, holds NPDES permit MI0003166. EPA’s file records it issued December 29, 2016 and expiring October 1, 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	UP PAPER LLC
Permittee as filed	UP Paper LLC
NPDES ID	MI0003166
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 29, 2016
Expiration date	October 1, 2020
Issuing agency	State
Address	Manistique, MI 49854
Receiving water impaired	303(D) Listed
Subwatershed	Jamestown Slough-Manistique River (HUC 040601060604)
NAICS	322120 – Paper Mills
SIC	2621 – Paper Mills
Other EPA IDs (FRS)	RCRA handler MID981192628; ICIS-AIR source MI00000000000A6475

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

19Pollutants on file
16Under a numeric limit
13With a violation of any kind
7With 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
Solids, total suspended	28	144	94	March 31, 2026	740% over the limit
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C	24	83	37	March 31, 2026	112% over the limit
Mercury, total [as Hg]	12	21	13	March 31, 2010	288% over the limit
Phosphorus, total [as P]	16	6	2	April 30, 2019	14% over the limit
TU Static 24 Hr Acute Pimephales promelas	2	2	2	August 31, 2019	40% over the limit
pH	8	15	1	October 31, 2023
Chlorine, total residual	2	2	1	August 31, 2017	95% over the limit
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	6	18	0
Outfall observation,visual, y/n response	3	9	0
Zinc, total [as Zn]	0	5	0
Temperature, water deg. fahrenheit	12	3	0
Copper, total [as Cu]	0	3	0
Toxicity, final conc toxicity units	0	2	0
Phenols	8	0	0
p-Cresol	8	0	0
Benzoic acids, total	8	0	0
.alpha.-Terpineol	8	0	0
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]	4	0	0
Toxicity [acute], Ceriodaphnia dubia	2	0	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
June 30, 2017	Monitoring Violations - Improper Analysis or Lab Error	ST6
May 23, 2017	Monitoring Violations - Improper Analysis or Lab Error	ST6
May 22, 2017	Monitoring Violations - Improper Analysis or Lab Error	ST6
February 28, 2017	Monitoring Violations - Improper Analysis or Lab Error	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 October 14, 2026.

This public-records page covers Clean Water Act NPDES permit MI0003166 held by UP Paper LLC in Manistique, MI, which is administratively continued and classed as a Major Discharger, with 16 pollutants under a numeric limit and 7 pollutants with an effluent exceedance. The permit was issued December 29, 2016 and expired October 1, 2020, with the status as EPA's permit file stood when the record was loaded on October 14, 2026.