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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES MTR300198

SPRING CREEK MINE, Decker, MT: NPDES MTR300198 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

SPRING CREEK MINE, held by BRUCE JONES, holds NPDES permit MTR300198, which discharges to Unnamed Trib To Spring Creek. EPA’s file records it issued February 6, 2003 and expiring November 16, 2007. 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 SPRING CREEK MINE: its NPDES ID, its permit type and status, its dates, its address in Decker, Montana, its receiving water. EPA’s effluent violation file and its single-event violation file hold no violation for NPDES MTR300198.

Identity

Facility as filedSPRING CREEK MINE
Permittee as filedBRUCE JONES
NPDES IDMTR300198
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
ProgramIndustrial stormwater
IssuedFebruary 6, 2003
Expiration dateNovember 16, 2007
Issuing agencyMONTANA DEQ
AddressDecker, MT 59025
Receiving waterUNNAMED TRIB TO SPRING CREEK
SubwatershedTongue River-Monument Creek (HUC 100901010504)

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 MTR300198.

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 MTR300198.

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 SPRING CREEK MINE permit is one of 2 NPDES permits in the Tongue River-Monument Creek subwatershed, this one included. Among the 7 storm water industrial permits in Big Horn County, this one included, 42.9% have a violation on file. The permit records 0 pollutants under a numeric limit and 0 pollutants with an effluent exceedance.