Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES MTG010101

BEAR PAW LIVESTOCK COMMISSION, Chinook, MT: NPDES MTG010101 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
0Pollutants under a numeric limit
1Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

BEAR PAW LIVESTOCK COMMISSION, held by DEXTER BUCK JR, holds NPDES permit MTG010101, which discharges to Milk River. EPA’s file records it issued June 18, 2020 and expiring October 31, 2023. 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	BEAR PAW LIVESTOCK COMMISSION
Permittee as filed	DEXTER BUCK JR
NPDES ID	MTG010101
Permit status	Administratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit type	Coverage under a general permit
Discharger class	Minor discharger
Facility type	Not a publicly owned treatment works
Program	Concentrated animal feeding operations
Issued	June 18, 2020
Expiration date	October 31, 2023
Address	Chinook, MT 59523
Receiving water	MILK RIVER
Receiving water impaired	303(D) Listed
Subwatershed	Milk River-Sixteen Mile Creek (HUC 100500040603)
SIC	5154 – Livestock

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

14Pollutants on file
0Under a numeric limit
14With a violation of any kind
1With 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	Violations, any kind	Effluent exceedances	Latest exceedance	Largest exceedance, as filed
Precipitation volume	7	1	December 31, 2008	33% over the limit
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C	9	0
Solids, total suspended	9	0
Phosphorus, total [as P]	9	0
Nitrogen, nitrate total [as N]	6	0
Nitrogen, Kjeldahl, total [as N]	6	0
Coliform, fecal general	6	0
Nitrogen, total [as N]	3	0
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]	3	0
E. coli, MTEC-MF	3	0
Nitrite + Nitrate total [as N]	2	0
Duration	2	0
Volume, total	2	0
pH	1	0

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 MTG010101.

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 NPDES permit MTG010101, held by BEAR PAW LIVESTOCK COMMISSION in Chinook, MT, with the permit status listed as administratively continued and a discharger class of Minor. The figures listed are 0 pollutants under a numeric limit and 1 pollutant with an effluent exceedance.