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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES MTR000669

AMERICAN WELDING & GAS, INC., Billings, MT: NPDES MTR000669 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

AMERICAN WELDING & GAS, INC., held by American Welding & Gas Inc, holds NPDES permit MTR000669, which discharges to Yellowstone River. EPA’s file records it issued February 11, 2020 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 WELDING & GAS, INC.
Permittee as filedAmerican Welding & Gas Inc
NPDES IDMTR000669
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
IssuedFebruary 11, 2020
Expiration dateJanuary 31, 2023
AddressBillings, MT 59101
Receiving waterYELLOWSTONE RIVER
SubwatershedYellowstone River-Billings (HUC 100700041006)
SIC5169 – Chemicals & Allied Products
Other EPA IDs (FRS)RCRA handler MTD035216449

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
pH010
Solids, total suspended010
Chemical Oxygen Demand [COD]010

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES MTR000669.

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 MTR000669.

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

American Welding & Gas, Inc. holds one of 70 storm water industrial permits in Yellowstone County, and 74.3% of those permits carry an earlier issue date than this one. Among the 75 storm water industrial permits in the county, 62.7% have a violation on file, while this permit shows 0 pollutants with an effluent exceedance and 0 pollutants under a numeric limit. The permit sits within a set of 157 NPDES permits in the Yellowstone River-Billings subwatershed, this one included.