Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES MTG010111

STERLING CATTLE LLC, Vaughn, MT: NPDES MTG010111 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
8Pollutants under a numeric limit
0Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

STERLING CATTLE LLC, held by APPLESTEM INC, holds NPDES permit MTG010111, which discharges to Sun River Valley Ditch. EPA’s file records it issued April 20, 2009 and expiring October 31, 2013. 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	STERLING CATTLE LLC
Permittee as filed	APPLESTEM INC
NPDES ID	MTG010111
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	April 20, 2009
Expiration date	October 31, 2013
Issuing agency	MONTANA DEQ
Address	Vaughn, MT 59648
Receiving water	SUN RIVER VALLEY DITCH
Subwatershed	Sun River-Sun River Valley (HUC 100301040903)
SIC	0211 – Beef Cattle Feedlots

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

10Pollutants on file
8Under a numeric limit
10With 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
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C	1	4
Solids, total suspended	1	4
Nitrogen, total [as N]	1	4
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]	1	4
Nitrite + Nitrate total [as N]	1	4
Phosphorus, total [as P]	1	4
E. coli, MTEC-MF	1	4
pH	1	3
Duration	0	1
Volume, total	0	1

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES MTG010111.

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 MTG010111.

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 MTG010111, held by STERLING CATTLE LLC in Vaughn, MT, and listed as administratively continued with a Minor discharger class of 8. The permit's listed figures are 0 pollutants under a numeric limit and 0 pollutants with an effluent exceedance, and it discharges to SUN RIVER VALLEY DITCH in the Sun River-Sun River Valley subwatershed (HUC 100301040903).