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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES MN0069078

MESABI MINING-LTV/CLIFFS ERIE, Hoyt Lakes, MN: NPDES MN0069078 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

MESABI MINING-LTV/CLIFFS ERIE, held by MESABI MINING AREA, holds NPDES permit MN0069078, which discharges to Second Cr, First Cr, Partridge R. EPA’s file records it issued November 30, 2007 and expiring June 30, 2010. 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.

What the register holds for MESABI MINING-LTV/CLIFFS ERIE: its NPDES ID, its permit type and status, its dates, its address in Hoyt Lakes, Minnesota, its receiving water. EPA’s effluent violation file and its single-event violation file hold no violation for NPDES MN0069078.

Identity

Facility as filedMESABI MINING-LTV/CLIFFS ERIE
Permittee as filedMESABI MINING AREA
NPDES IDMN0069078
Permit statusAdministratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit typeIndividual permit
Discharger classMinor discharger
Facility typeNot a publicly owned treatment works
IssuedNovember 30, 2007
Expiration dateJune 30, 2010
AddressHoyt Lakes, MN 55750
Receiving waterSECOND CR, FIRST CR, PARTRIDGE R

Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES permit file (ECHO download).

Effluent limits and exceedances

EPA’s limits and effluent violation files hold no pollutant row for NPDES MN0069078.

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 MN0069078.

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 September 15, 2026.

What this page shows

The MESABI MINING-LTV/CLIFFS ERIE permit ranks among its peers with 29.0% of the 31 individual permits in St. Louis County carrying a violation on file, and 54.8% of those same 31 permits, this one included, were issued earlier than this one. The register lists 31 individual permits in St. Louis County, this one included, and this permit has no pollutants under a numeric limit and no effluent exceedances on file.