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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES MNG440643

HORMEL FOODS CORPORATION - AUSTIN PLANT, Austin, MN: NPDES MNG440643 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

HORMEL FOODS CORPORATION - AUSTIN PLANT, held by Kari Pollak, holds NPDES permit MNG440643. EPA’s file records it issued June 21, 2023 and expiring January 31, 2026. 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 HORMEL FOODS CORPORATION - AUSTIN PLANT: its NPDES ID, its permit type and status, its dates, its address in Austin, Minnesota. EPA’s effluent violation file and its single-event violation file hold no violation for NPDES MNG440643.

Identity

Facility as filedHORMEL FOODS CORPORATION - AUSTIN PLANT
Permittee as filedKari Pollak
NPDES IDMNG440643
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
ProgramConcentrated animal feeding operations
IssuedJune 21, 2023
Expiration dateJanuary 31, 2026
Issuing agencySTA
AddressAustin, MN 55912
Receiving water impaired303(D) Listed
SubwatershedCity of Austin-Cedar River (HUC 070802010206)
Other EPA IDs (FRS)RCRA handler MND000773242; ICIS-AIR source MN0000002709900002

Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES permit file (ECHO download); cross-program IDs from EPA’s FRS facility-registry crosswalk.

Effluent limits and exceedances

EPA’s limits and effluent violation files hold no pollutant row for NPDES MNG440643.

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 MNG440643.

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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What this page shows

The HORMEL FOODS CORPORATION - AUSTIN PLANT permit (NPDES ID MNG440643) is one of 5 CAFO permits in Mower County, and 40.0% of those permits carry an earlier issue date than this one. It also sits among 6 NPDES permits in the City of Austin-Cedar River subwatershed, and the permit records no pollutants under a numeric limit and no effluent exceedances, both counted as 0.