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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES MTR000475

AMERICAN CHEMET CORPORATION, East Helena, MT: NPDES MTR000475 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

AMERICAN CHEMET CORPORATION holds NPDES permit MTR000475, which discharges to Prickly Pear Creek. EPA’s file records it issued May 24, 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 filedAMERICAN CHEMET CORPORATION
Permittee as filedAMERICAN CHEMET CORPORATION
NPDES IDMTR000475
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
IssuedMay 24, 2018
Expiration dateJanuary 31, 2023
AddressEast Helena, MT 59635
Receiving waterPRICKLY PEAR CREEK
SubwatershedLower Prickley Pear Gulch (HUC 100301011310)
SIC2819 – Industrial Inorganic Chemicals
Other EPA IDs (FRS)RCRA handler MTD071408660

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
Nitrite + Nitrate total [as N]100
Iron, total [as Fe]100
Aluminum, total [as Al]100

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES MTR000475.

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

DateWhat EPA recordedAgency
April 22, 2026WW Storm Water Non-Construction - Failure to Conduct InspectionsST6
April 22, 2026WW Storm Water Construction - Failure to properly operate and maintain BMPsST6
April 22, 2026WW Storm Water Non-Construction - Failure to develop any or adequate SWPPP/SWMPST6
April 22, 2026WW Storm Water Non-Construction - Failure to Maintain RecordsST6
September 11, 2019WW Storm Water Non-Construction - Failure to Conduct InspectionsST6
September 11, 2019WW Storm Water Non-Construction - Failure to Implement SWPPP/SWMPST6
September 11, 2019WW Storm Water Non-Construction - Failure to Maintain RecordsST6
September 11, 2019WW Storm Water Non-Construction - Failure to properly install/implement BMPsST6
September 11, 2019WW Storm Water Non-Construction - Failure to properly operate and maintain BMPsST6

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

AMERICAN CHEMET CORPORATION holds NPDES permit MTR000475 for East Helena, MT, discharging to Prickly Pear Creek, with a minor discharger class and an administratively continued status as of the October 14, 2026 load date. The permit was issued May 24, 2018 and expired January 31, 2023, and the page lists 0 pollutants under a numeric limit and 0 pollutants with an effluent exceedance.