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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES MTG010137

CALLAWAYS BLUE CREEK FEEDERS, Billings, MT: NPDES MTG010137 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

CALLAWAYS BLUE CREEK FEEDERS holds NPDES permit MTG010137, which discharges to Blue Creek. EPA’s file records it issued April 23, 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 filedCALLAWAYS BLUE CREEK FEEDERS
Permittee as filedCALLAWAYS BLUE CREEK FEEDERS
NPDES IDMTG010137
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
IssuedApril 23, 2020
Expiration dateOctober 31, 2023
AddressBillings, MT 59101
Receiving waterBLUE CREEK
SubwatershedUpper Blue Creek (HUC 100700041001)
SIC0211 – 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

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 measureLimitsViolations, any kindEffluent exceedancesLatest exceedanceLargest exceedance, as filed
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C070
Solids, total suspended070
Phosphorus, total [as P]070
Nitrogen, nitrate total [as N]050
Nitrogen, Kjeldahl, total [as N]050
Coliform, fecal general050
Precipitation volume050
Nitrogen, total [as N]020
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]020
Nitrite + Nitrate total [as N]020
E. coli, MTEC-MF020
pH010
Duration010
Volume, total010

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES MTG010137.

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 MTG010137.

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.

What this page shows

CALLAWAYS BLUE CREEK FEEDERS is one of 19 CAFO permits in Yellowstone County, and it is the only NPDES permit in the Upper Blue Creek subwatershed, this one included. Of those 19 Yellowstone County CAFO permits, 42.1% carry an earlier issue date than this one, and this permit has no pollutants under a numeric limit and no pollutants with an effluent exceedance on file.