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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES MTR000290

PACIFIC STEEL AND RECYCLING, Miles City, MT: NPDES MTR000290 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

PACIFIC STEEL AND RECYCLING holds NPDES permit MTR000290, which discharges to Yellowstone River. EPA’s file records it issued October 30, 2006 and expiring September 30, 2011. 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 filedPACIFIC STEEL AND RECYCLING
Permittee as filedPACIFIC STEEL AND RECYCLING
NPDES IDMTR000290
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
ProgramIndustrial stormwater
IssuedOctober 30, 2006
Expiration dateSeptember 30, 2011
Issuing agencyMONTANA DEQ
AddressMiles City, MT 59301
Receiving waterYELLOWSTONE RIVER
SubwatershedYellowstone River-Miles City (HUC 101000012602)
SIC5093 – Scrap And Waste Materials

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
Solids, total suspended010
Iron, total recoverable010
Zinc, total recoverable010
Aluminum, total recoverable010
Lead, total recoverable010
Copper, total recoverable010
Chemical Oxygen Demand [COD]010

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES MTR000290.

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 MTR000290.

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

PACIFIC STEEL AND RECYCLING's Storm Water Industrial permit in Miles City, Custer County, Montana, is one of 8 such permits on EPA's NPDES register in Custer County, this one included. Of those 8 Custer County storm water industrial permits, 12.5% were issued earlier than this one. The permit is one of 17 NPDES permits in the Yellowstone River-Miles City subwatershed, this one included, and it has no pollutants under a numeric limit and no pollutants with an effluent exceedance.