Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES MN0065846

AMERICAN CRYSTAL SUGAR - 20 SITES, Moorhead, MN: NPDES MN0065846 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
6Pollutants under a numeric limit
0Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

AMERICAN CRYSTAL SUGAR - 20 SITES, held by American Crystal Sugar Co, holds NPDES permit MN0065846. EPA’s file records it issued November 1, 2020 and expiring October 31, 2025. 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	AMERICAN CRYSTAL SUGAR - 20 SITES
Permittee as filed	American Crystal Sugar Co
NPDES ID	MN0065846
Permit status	Administratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit type	Individual permit
Discharger class	Minor discharger
Facility type	Not a publicly owned treatment works
Issued	November 1, 2020
Expiration date	October 31, 2025
Issuing agency	STA
Address	Moorhead, MN 56560
Receiving water impaired	303(D) Listed
Subwatershed	Town of Briarwood-Red River (HUC 090201040501)
SIC	2063 – Beet Sugar
Other EPA IDs (FRS)	RCRA handler MND006174809; ICIS-AIR source MN0000002711900002

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

6Pollutants on file
6Under a numeric limit
2With a violation of any kind
0With 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
Solids, total suspended	52	7
BOD, carbonaceous [5 day, 20 C]	52	7
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]	52	0
Phosphorus, total [as P]	52	0
Chemical Oxygen Demand [COD]	48	0
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	12	0

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES MN0065846.

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

0Single-event violations

EPA’s single-event violation file, as loaded, holds no violation for NPDES MN0065846.

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.

This public-records page covers Clean Water Act discharge permit NPDES MN0065846, held by American Crystal Sugar Co for the AMERICAN CRYSTAL SUGAR - 20 SITES facility in Moorhead, MN, and lists its status as administratively continued with a minor discharger class of 6. The page reports 0 pollutants under a numeric limit and 0 pollutants with an effluent exceedance, with the permit's issue date of November 1, 2020 and expiration date of October 31, 2025 as recorded in EPA's file. The subwatershed is listed as Town of Briarwood-Red River (HUC 090201040501).