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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES MTR000430

PACIFIC STEEL AND RECYCLING - HELENA, Helena, MT: NPDES MTR000430 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

PACIFIC STEEL AND RECYCLING - HELENA, held by PACIFIC STEEL AND RECYCLING, holds NPDES permit MTR000430, which discharges to Ten Mile Creek. EPA’s file records it issued June 14, 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.

What the register holds for PACIFIC STEEL AND RECYCLING - HELENA: its NPDES ID, its permit type and status, its dates, its address in Helena, Montana, its receiving water, and 7 pollutants under a numeric limit. EPA’s effluent violation file and its single-event violation file hold no violation for NPDES MTR000430.

Identity

Facility as filedPACIFIC STEEL AND RECYCLING - HELENA
Permittee as filedPACIFIC STEEL AND RECYCLING
NPDES IDMTR000430
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
IssuedJune 14, 2018
Expiration dateJanuary 31, 2023
AddressHelena, MT 59601
Receiving waterTEN MILE CREEK
SubwatershedLast Chance Gulch (HUC 100301011309)
SIC5093 – Scrap And Waste Materials
Other EPA IDs (FRS)RCRA handler MTR000007112; ICIS-AIR source 080000003004900901

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

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 suspended100
Iron, total recoverable100
Zinc, total recoverable100
Aluminum, total recoverable100
Lead, total recoverable100
Copper, total recoverable100
Chemical Oxygen Demand [COD]100

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES MTR000430.

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 MTR000430.

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.

What this page shows

This page is a public-records entry for NPDES permit MTR000430, held by PACIFIC STEEL AND RECYCLING for its Helena, MT facility, which discharges to Ten Mile Creek. The figures listed are 7 pollutants under a numeric limit, 0 pollutants with an effluent exceedance, and a Minor Discharger class of 7.