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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES NCC253329

CHIP MILL, Sims, NC: NPDES NCC253329 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

CHIP MILL, held by Valco Renewables LLC, holds NPDES permit NCC253329. EPA’s file records it issued November 5, 2025 and expiring March 31, 2029. 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 CHIP MILL: its NPDES ID, its permit type and status, its dates, its address in Sims, North Carolina. EPA’s effluent violation file and its single-event violation file hold no violation for NPDES NCC253329.

Identity

Facility as filedCHIP MILL
Permittee as filedValco Renewables LLC
NPDES IDNCC253329
Permit statusEffective
Permit typeCoverage under a general permit
Discharger classMinor discharger
Facility typeNot a publicly owned treatment works
IssuedNovember 5, 2025
Expiration dateMarch 31, 2029
AddressSims, NC 27880
SubwatershedBloomery Swamp (HUC 030202030402)
NAICS238910 – Site Preparation Contractors
SIC1542 – Nonresidential Construction

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

EPA’s limits and effluent violation files hold no pollutant row for NPDES NCC253329.

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 NCC253329.

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.

What this page shows

CHIP MILL, a general permit coverage in Sims, North Carolina, sits among 8 general permit coverages on EPA's NPDES register for that city, this one included. Of those 8 coverages in Sims, 0.0% have a violation on file, and the permit records no pollutants under a numeric limit or effluent exceedances, each counted at 0. Within the Bloomery Swamp subwatershed, the permit is one of 38 NPDES permits, and 37.5% of the Sims coverages were issued earlier than this one.