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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES MTR109698

YELLOWTAIL DAM, Fort Smith, MT: NPDES MTR109698 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

YELLOWTAIL DAM, held by NW Construction, Inc, holds NPDES permit MTR109698, which discharges to Bighorn River. EPA’s file records it issued July 27, 2022 and expiring December 31, 2022. 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 YELLOWTAIL DAM: its NPDES ID, its permit type and status, its dates, its address in Fort Smith, Montana, its receiving water. EPA’s effluent violation file and its single-event violation file hold no violation for NPDES MTR109698.

Identity

Facility as filedYELLOWTAIL DAM
Permittee as filedNW Construction, Inc
NPDES IDMTR109698
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
IssuedJuly 27, 2022
Expiration dateDecember 31, 2022
AddressFort Smith, MT 59035
Receiving waterBIGHORN RIVER
SubwatershedBighorn River-War Man Creek (HUC 100800150302)

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 MTR109698.

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 MTR109698.

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.

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