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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES NCG050220

PACKAGING CORPORATION OF AMERICA, Morganton, NC: NPDES NCG050220 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

PACKAGING CORPORATION OF AMERICA, held by Packaging Corp of America, holds NPDES permit NCG050220. EPA’s file records it issued June 1, 2018 and expiring May 31, 2023. 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 PACKAGING CORPORATION OF AMERICA: its NPDES ID, its permit type and status, its dates, its address in Morganton, North Carolina. EPA’s effluent violation file and its single-event violation file hold no violation for NPDES NCG050220.

Identity

Facility as filedPACKAGING CORPORATION OF AMERICA
Permittee as filedPackaging Corp of America
NPDES IDNCG050220
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
IssuedJune 1, 2018
Expiration dateMay 31, 2023
AddressMorganton, NC 28680
SubwatershedHeadwaters Buffalo Creek (HUC 030501050801)
SIC2653 – Corrugated And Solid Fiber Boxes
Other EPA IDs (FRS)RCRA handler NCD986213536; ICIS-AIR source NC0000003701200016

Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES permit file (ECHO download) and EPA’s NAICS/SIC and component files, the same download; cross-program IDs from EPA’s FRS facility-registry crosswalk.

Effluent limits and exceedances

EPA’s limits and effluent violation files hold no pollutant row for NPDES NCG050220.

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 NCG050220.

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

The Packaging Corp of America storm water industrial permit, NPDES ID NCG050220 in Morganton, is one of 41 such permits on EPA's register in Burke County, this one included. Of those 41 Burke County storm water industrial permits, 7.3% carry an earlier issue date than this one, and 14.6% have a violation on file. The permit sits among 16 NPDES permits in the Headwaters Buffalo Creek subwatershed, this one included, and it records zero pollutants under a numeric limit and zero pollutants with an effluent exceedance.