Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES MTR000103

WESTERN SUGAR COOPERATIVE, Billings, MT: NPDES MTR000103 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

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

WESTERN SUGAR COOPERATIVE holds NPDES permit MTR000103, which discharges to Yegen Drain. EPA’s file records it issued August 23, 2018 and expiring January 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	WESTERN SUGAR COOPERATIVE
Permittee as filed	WESTERN SUGAR COOPERATIVE
NPDES ID	MTR000103
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	Industrial stormwater
Issued	August 23, 2018
Expiration date	January 31, 2023
Address	Billings, MT 59101
Receiving water	YEGEN DRAIN
Subwatershed	Yellowstone River-Billings (HUC 100700041006)
SIC	2063 – Beet Sugar
Other EPA IDs (FRS)	RCRA handler MTD006229223; ICIS-AIR source MT0000003011100007

Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES permit file (ECHO download) and EPA’s NAICS/SIC and component files, the same download; cross-program IDs from EPA’s FRS facility-registry crosswalk.

Effluent limits and exceedances

0Pollutants on file
0Under a numeric limit
0With a violation of any kind
0With an effluent exceedance

EPA’s limits and effluent violation files hold no pollutant row for NPDES MTR000103.

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

6Single-event violations

Date	What EPA recorded	Agency
August 7, 2024	WW Storm Water Non-Construction - Failure to Conduct Inspections	ST6
August 7, 2024	WW Storm Water Non-Construction - Failure to Maintain Records	ST6
August 7, 2024	WW Storm Water Non-Construction - Failure to Monitor	ST6
August 7, 2024	WW Storm Water Non-Construction - Failure to properly install/implement BMPs	ST6
August 7, 2024	WW Storm Water Non-Construction - Failure to properly operate and maintain BMPs	ST6
October 12, 2017	Reporting Violations - Failure to submit required report (non-DMR non-pretreatment)	ST6

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 October 14, 2026.

This public-records page covers Clean Water Act NPDES permit MTR000103, held by WESTERN SUGAR COOPERATIVE in Billings, MT, which discharges to YEGEN DRAIN and is listed as administratively continued. The permit is classed as a Minor discharger, with 0 pollutants under a numeric limit and 0 pollutants with an effluent exceedance. EPA's file records issuance on August 23, 2018 and expiration on January 31, 2023, with the status as of October 14, 2026.