Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES MTR107129

BLACK BUTTE COPPER PROJECT, White Sulphur Springs, MT: NPDES MTR107129 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

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

BLACK BUTTE COPPER PROJECT, held by TINTINA MONTANA INC, holds NPDES permit MTR107129, which discharges to Smith. EPA’s file records it issued July 18, 2017 and expiring December 31, 2022. 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.

What the register holds for BLACK BUTTE COPPER PROJECT: its NPDES ID, its permit type and status, its dates, its address in White Sulphur Springs, Montana, its receiving water. EPA’s effluent violation file and its single-event violation file hold no violation for NPDES MTR107129.

Identity

Facility as filed	BLACK BUTTE COPPER PROJECT
Permittee as filed	TINTINA MONTANA INC
NPDES ID	MTR107129
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	Construction stormwater
Issued	July 18, 2017
Expiration date	December 31, 2022
Address	White Sulphur Springs, MT 59645
Receiving water	SMITH
Subwatershed	Upper Sheep Creek (HUC 100301030402)
SIC	1021 – Copper Ores

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

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

EPA’s limits and effluent violation files hold no pollutant row for NPDES MTR107129.

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

0Single-event violations

EPA’s single-event violation file, as loaded, holds no violation for NPDES MTR107129.

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.

The BLACK BUTTE COPPER PROJECT, held by TINTINA MONTANA INC, is one of 13 storm water construction permits on EPA's NPDES register in its county, and 7.7% of those 13 carry a violation on file. Within the Upper Sheep Creek subwatershed, the permit is one of 4 NPDES permits, and 61.5% of all 13 storm water construction permits in the county were issued earlier than this one. The permit records no pollutants under a numeric limit and no pollutants with an effluent exceedance, both counted as 0.