Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES MTR040006

CITY OF BUTTE MS-4, Butte, MT: NPDES MTR040006 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
0Pollutants under a numeric limit
0Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

CITY OF BUTTE MS-4, held by CITY OF BUTTE, holds NPDES permit MTR040006, which discharges to Various In And Around Butte. EPA’s file records it issued January 31, 2017 and expiring December 31, 2021. 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 filed	CITY OF BUTTE MS-4
Permittee as filed	CITY OF BUTTE
NPDES ID	MTR040006
Permit status	Administratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit type	Coverage under a general permit
Discharger class	Minor discharger
Facility type	Not a publicly owned treatment works
Program	Small municipal storm sewer systems
Issued	January 31, 2017
Expiration date	December 31, 2021
Address	Butte, MT 59701
Receiving water	VARIOUS IN AND AROUND BUTTE
Subwatershed	Silver Bow Creek-Berkley Pit (HUC 170102010203)
SIC	9511 – Air, Water, & Solid Waste Management

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

10Pollutants on file
0Under a numeric limit
10With a violation of any kind
0With an effluent exceedance

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 measure	Limits	Violations, any kind	Effluent exceedances	Latest exceedance	Largest exceedance, as filed
pH	0	16	0
Solids, total suspended	0	9	0
Phosphorus, total [as P]	0	9	0
Copper, total recoverable	0	9	0
Chemical Oxygen Demand [COD]	0	9	0
Flow rate	0	8	0
Oil and grease, hexane extr method	0	8	0
Nitrogen, total [as N]	0	8	0
Zinc, total recoverable	0	8	0
Lead, total recoverable	0	8	0

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES MTR040006.

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

2Single-event violations

Date	What EPA recorded	Agency
July 24, 2019	WW Storm Water MS4 - Failure to develop any or adequate SWPPP/SWMP	ST6
July 24, 2019	WW Storm Water MS4 - Failure to Implement SWPPP/SWMP	ST6

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.

This public-records page covers Clean Water Act NPDES permit MTR040006, held by CITY OF BUTTE for its CITY OF BUTTE MS-4 facility in Butte, MT, which discharges to Various In And Around Butte. The page lists the permit as administratively continued, with a Minor discharger class, 0 pollutants under a numeric limit, and 0 pollutants with an effluent exceedance, and gives an issue date of January 31, 2017 and an expiration date of December 31, 2021.