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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES MTR000549

BORDER STEEL - SIDNEY, Sidney, MT: NPDES MTR000549 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

BORDER STEEL - SIDNEY, held by BORDER STEEL BRADY SMELSER, holds NPDES permit MTR000549, which discharges to Yellowstone River. EPA’s file records it issued May 18, 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 filedBORDER STEEL - SIDNEY
Permittee as filedBORDER STEEL BRADY SMELSER
NPDES IDMTR000549
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 18, 2018
Expiration dateJanuary 31, 2023
AddressSidney, MT 59270
Receiving waterYELLOWSTONE RIVER
SubwatershedTown of Newlon Junction-Yellowstone River (HUC 101000042209)
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
pH010
Solids, total suspended010
Lead, total [as Pb]010
Zinc, total recoverable010
Aluminum, total [as Al]010
Copper, total recoverable010
Chemical Oxygen Demand [COD]010

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES MTR000549.

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 MTR000549.

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

The BORDER STEEL - SIDNEY permit (NPDES ID MTR000549) is one of 17 storm water industrial permits in Richland County, and 60.0% of the 15 storm water industrial permits in the county, this one included, were issued before it. It has no pollutants under a numeric limit and no pollutants with an effluent exceedance, which is 0 in each case, and it sits among 16 NPDES permits in the Town of Newlon Junction-Yellowstone River subwatershed.