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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES MIS120641

FRANKLIN IRON & METAL, Battle Creek, MI: NPDES MIS120641 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

FRANKLIN IRON & METAL, held by Franklin Iron and Metal Company Incorporated, holds NPDES permit MIS120641, which discharges to Kalamazoo River. EPA’s file records it issued December 17, 2021 and expiring April 1, 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.

Identity

Facility as filedFRANKLIN IRON & METAL
Permittee as filedFranklin Iron and Metal Company Incorporated
NPDES IDMIS120641
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
IssuedDecember 17, 2021
Expiration dateApril 1, 2026
Issuing agencyState
AddressBattle Creek, MI 49014
Receiving waterKalamazoo River
Receiving water impaired303(D) Listed
SubwatershedWillow Creek-Kalamazoo River (HUC 040500030411)
SIC3999 – Manufacturing Industries

Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES permit file (ECHO download) and EPA’s NAICS/SIC and component files, the same download.

Effluent limits and exceedances

EPA’s limits and effluent violation files hold no pollutant row for NPDES MIS120641.

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

DateWhat EPA recordedAgency
August 29, 2024Failure to develop, maintain, or get approval of an adequate SWPPP (industrial stormwater)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.

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What this page shows

This public-records page covers Clean Water Act discharge permit NPDES MIS120641 held by FRANKLIN IRON & METAL in Battle Creek, MI, which discharges to the Kalamazoo River and is listed as administratively continued. The facts list a discharger class of Minor, 0 pollutants under a numeric limit, and 0 pollutants with an effluent exceedance.