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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES MIS220060

UNIVERSAL TRUCK & AUTO, Escanaba, MI: NPDES MIS220060 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

UNIVERSAL TRUCK & AUTO, held by Universal Truck & Auto Parts Inc, holds NPDES permit MIS220060, which discharges to Portage Creek. EPA’s file records it issued April 16, 2020 and expiring April 1, 2022. 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 UNIVERSAL TRUCK & AUTO: its NPDES ID, its permit type and status, its dates, its address in Escanaba, Michigan, its receiving water. EPA’s effluent violation file and its single-event violation file hold no violation for NPDES MIS220060.

Identity

Facility as filedUNIVERSAL TRUCK & AUTO
Permittee as filedUniversal Truck & Auto Parts Inc
NPDES IDMIS220060
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
IssuedApril 16, 2020
Expiration dateApril 1, 2022
Issuing agencyState
AddressEscanaba, MI 49829
Receiving waterPortage Creek
Receiving water impaired303(D) Listed
SubwatershedPortage Creek-Frontal Little Bay De Noc (HUC 040301110210)
SIC5015 – Motor Vehicle Parts, Used

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 MIS220060.

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 MIS220060.

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

Universal Truck & Auto is one of 6 general permit coverages on EPA's NPDES register in Escanaba, and 0.0% of those coverages carry an earlier issue date than this one. Among the 6 Escanaba general permit coverages, 33.3% have a violation on file, while this permit has none of the recorded pollutants exceeding a numeric limit or showing an effluent exceedance. The permit also sits among 11 NPDES permits in the Portage Creek-Frontal Little Bay De Noc subwatershed, this one included.