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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES MTU000013

RICHARD HARDT, Billings, MT: NPDES MTU000013 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

RICHARD HARDT, held by FOSTER-SMITH LEASE #20-002415, holds NPDES permit MTU000013. 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 RICHARD HARDT: its NPDES ID, its permit type and status, its its address in Billings, Montana. EPA’s effluent violation file and its single-event violation file hold no violation for NPDES MTU000013.

Identity

Facility as filedRICHARD HARDT
Permittee as filedFOSTER-SMITH LEASE #20-002415
NPDES IDMTU000013
Permit statusNot needed
Permit typeIndividual permit
Discharger classMinor discharger
Facility typeNot a publicly owned treatment works
AddressBillings, MT 59106
SubwatershedYellowstone River-Billings (HUC 100700041006)

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 MTU000013.

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 MTU000013.

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 RICHARD HARDT permit, held by FOSTER-SMITH LEASE #20-002415 in Billings, Big Horn County, Montana, is one of 13 individual permits on EPA's NPDES register in that county, and 84.6% of those 13 individual permits in Big Horn County have a violation on file. This permit has no pollutants under a numeric limit and no pollutants with an effluent exceedance, and it sits among the 157 NPDES permits in the Yellowstone River-Billings subwatershed, this one included.