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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES MTG010224

STEVE JOHNSON FARM, Billings, MT: NPDES MTG010224 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

STEVE JOHNSON FARM, held by CARL AND STEVE JOHNSON FARM, holds NPDES permit MTG010224, which discharges to Miller And Mcgirl Ditch. EPA’s file records it issued July 14, 2020 and expiring October 31, 2023. 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.

Identity

Facility as filedSTEVE JOHNSON FARM
Permittee as filedCARL AND STEVE JOHNSON FARM
NPDES IDMTG010224
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
IssuedJuly 14, 2020
Expiration dateOctober 31, 2023
AddressBillings, MT 59105
Receiving waterMILLER AND MCGIRL DITCH
SubwatershedYellowstone River-Sevenmile Creek (HUC 100700070403)

Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES permit file (ECHO 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. C0100
Solids, total suspended0100
Nitrogen, total [as N]0100
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]0100
Nitrite + Nitrate total [as N]0100
Phosphorus, total [as P]0100
E. coli, MTEC-MF0100
Duration090
Volume, total090
pH010

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES MTG010224.

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 MTG010224.

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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Figures from EPA’s ICIS-NPDES download, loaded September 15, 2026.

What this page shows

The STEVE JOHNSON FARM CAFO permit in Billings, Yellowstone County, Montana, is one of 19 CAFO permits in Yellowstone County on EPA's NPDES register, and it sits among 61 NPDES permits in the Yellowstone River-Sevenmile Creek subwatershed. Among those 19 CAFO permits, 89.5% have a violation on file, while this permit has no pollutants under a numeric limit and no pollutants with an effluent exceedance.