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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES MTR040009

MONTANA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION - HELENA SMALL MS4, Helena, MT: NPDES MTR040009 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

MONTANA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION - HELENA SMALL MS4, held by MONTANA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION, holds NPDES permit MTR040009, which discharges to Little Prickly Pear And Tenmile Creeks. EPA’s file records it issued July 17, 2006 and expiring December 31, 2009. The status and dates are as EPA’s permit file stood when Velarion loaded it (September 15, 2026); EPA’s free Detailed Facility Report on ECHO carries the permit’s current standing.

What the register holds for MONTANA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION - HELENA SMALL MS4: its NPDES ID, its permit type and status, its dates, its address in Helena, Montana, its receiving water. EPA’s effluent violation file and its single-event violation file hold no violation for NPDES MTR040009.

Identity

Facility as filedMONTANA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION - HELENA SMALL MS4
Permittee as filedMONTANA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
NPDES IDMTR040009
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
ProgramSmall municipal storm sewer systems
IssuedJuly 17, 2006
Expiration dateDecember 31, 2009
Issuing agencyMONTANA DEQ
AddressHelena, MT 59601
Receiving waterLITTLE PRICKLY PEAR AND TENMILE CREEKS
SubwatershedLower Prickley Pear Gulch (HUC 100301011310)

Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES permit file (ECHO download).

Effluent limits and exceedances

EPA’s limits and effluent violation files hold no pollutant row for NPDES MTR040009.

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 MTR040009.

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 September 15, 2026.

What this page shows

The MONTANA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION - HELENA SMALL MS4 permit is one of 3 Storm Water Small MS4s permits on EPA's NPDES register in Lewis and Clark County, and it sits among 79 NPDES permits in the Lower Prickley Pear Gulch subwatershed. It records 0 pollutants under a numeric limit and 0 pollutants with an effluent exceedance.