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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES MTR103153

SMET AND G COOP INC - HIGHWOOD GENERATING STATION, Great Falls, MT: NPDES MTR103153 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

SMET AND G COOP INC - HIGHWOOD GENERATING STATION, held by SOUTHERN MT ELECTRIC TRANSMISSION AND GENERATION CO-OP INC, holds NPDES permit MTR103153, which discharges to 3 Water Bodies (See Permitted Features Screen). EPA’s file records it issued September 3, 2008 and expiring December 31, 2011. 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 SMET AND G COOP INC - HIGHWOOD GENERATING STATION: its NPDES ID, its permit type and status, its dates, its address in Great Falls, Montana, its receiving water. EPA’s effluent violation file and its single-event violation file hold no violation for NPDES MTR103153.

Identity

Facility as filedSMET AND G COOP INC - HIGHWOOD GENERATING STATION
Permittee as filedSOUTHERN MT ELECTRIC TRANSMISSION AND GENERATION CO-OP INC
NPDES IDMTR103153
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
ProgramConstruction stormwater
IssuedSeptember 3, 2008
Expiration dateDecember 31, 2011
Issuing agencyMONTANA DEQ
AddressGreat Falls, MT 59405
Receiving water3 WATER BODIES (SEE PERMITTED FEATURES SCREEN)
SubwatershedMissouri River-Rainbow Dam (HUC 100301021204)

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 MTR103153.

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 MTR103153.

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 September 15, 2026.

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