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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES NCL052469

EASTERN BAND CHEROKEE INDIANS - QUALLA BOUNDARY, Cherokee, NC: NPDES NCL052469 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

EASTERN BAND CHEROKEE INDIANS - QUALLA BOUNDARY, held by Eastern Band Cherokee Indians - Qualla Boundary, holds NPDES permit NCL052469. EPA’s file records it issued January 1, 2021 and expiring December 31, 2025. 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 EASTERN BAND CHEROKEE INDIANS - QUALLA BOUNDARY: its NPDES ID, its permit type and status, its dates, its address in Cherokee, North Carolina. EPA’s effluent violation file and its single-event violation file hold no violation for NPDES NCL052469.

Identity

Facility as filedEASTERN BAND CHEROKEE INDIANS - QUALLA BOUNDARY
Permittee as filedEastern Band Cherokee Indians - Qualla Boundary
NPDES IDNCL052469
Permit statusAdministratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit typeAssociated permit record
Discharger classMinor discharger
Facility typeNot a publicly owned treatment works
ProgramBiosolids
IssuedJanuary 1, 2021
Expiration dateDecember 31, 2025
AddressCherokee, NC 28719
SubwatershedLower Oconaluftee River (HUC 060102030207)

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 NCL052469.

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 NCL052469.

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

Swain County has 1 biosolids permit on EPA's NPDES register, the Cherokee entry filed as EASTERN BAND CHEROKEE INDIANS - QUALLA BOUNDARY. The Lower Oconaluftee River subwatershed includes 13 NPDES permits, counting this permit.