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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES MTR106685

HUMIC TAP - 4 GAS TRANSMISSION PROJECT, Shelby, MT: NPDES MTR106685 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

HUMIC TAP - 4 GAS TRANSMISSION PROJECT, held by NORTHWESTERN ENERGY, holds NPDES permit MTR106685, which discharges to Marias. EPA’s file records it issued October 27, 2016 and expiring December 31, 2017. 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 HUMIC TAP - 4 GAS TRANSMISSION PROJECT: its NPDES ID, its permit type and status, its dates, its address in Shelby, Montana, its receiving water. EPA’s effluent violation file and its single-event violation file hold no violation for NPDES MTR106685.

Identity

Facility as filedHUMIC TAP - 4 GAS TRANSMISSION PROJECT
Permittee as filedNORTHWESTERN ENERGY
NPDES IDMTR106685
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
IssuedOctober 27, 2016
Expiration dateDecember 31, 2017
Issuing agencyMT DEQ
AddressShelby, MT 59474
Receiving waterMARIAS
SubwatershedMarias River-Shelby (HUC 100302030802)

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 MTR106685.

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 MTR106685.

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.

What this page shows

The HUMIC TAP - 4 GAS TRANSMISSION PROJECT, a storm water construction permit held by NORTHWESTERN ENERGY in Shelby, Toole County, Montana, is one of 26 such permits in its county on EPA's NPDES register, and 0.0% of those 26 have a violation on file. Of the 24 storm water construction permits in Toole County, 41.7% were issued before this one, and the Marias River-Shelby subwatershed holds 6 NPDES permits, this one included.