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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES MTR000503

STILLWATER MINING COMPANY, Big Timber, MT: NPDES MTR000503 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

STILLWATER MINING COMPANY holds NPDES permit MTR000503, which discharges to East Boulder River. EPA’s file records it issued May 16, 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 STILLWATER MINING COMPANY: its NPDES ID, its permit type and status, its dates, its address in Big Timber, Montana, its receiving water, and 15 pollutants under a numeric limit. EPA’s effluent violation file and its single-event violation file hold no violation for NPDES MTR000503.

Identity

Facility as filedSTILLWATER MINING COMPANY
Permittee as filedSTILLWATER MINING COMPANY
NPDES IDMTR000503
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 16, 2018
Expiration dateJanuary 31, 2023
AddressBig Timber, MT 59011
Receiving waterEAST BOULDER RIVER
SubwatershedLower East Boulder River (HUC 100700020701)
SIC1099 – Metal Ores
Other EPA IDs (FRS)RCRA handler MTD981552292; ICIS-AIR source MT0000003009500001

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
pH1600
Solids, total suspended800
Hardness, total [as CaCO3]800
Arsenic, total [as As]800
Beryllium, total [as Be]800
Cadmium, total [as Cd]800
Copper, total [as Cu]800
Iron, total [as Fe]800
Lead, total [as Pb]800
Nickel, total [as Ni]800
Silver, total [as Ag]800
Zinc, total [as Zn]800
Antimony, total [as Sb]800
Selenium, total [as Se]800
Mercury, total [as Hg]800

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES MTR000503.

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 MTR000503.

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 public-records page covers Clean Water Act discharge permit NPDES MTR000503, held by STILLWATER MINING COMPANY in Big Timber, Montana, which discharges to East Boulder River. The permit is listed as administratively continued, with 15 pollutants under a numeric limit and 0 pollutants with an effluent exceedance.