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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES TX0076465

OAK GROVE LIGNITE MINING AREA, Bremond, TX: NPDES TX0076465 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

OAK GROVE LIGNITE MINING AREA, held by LUMINANT MINING CO, LLC, holds NPDES permit TX0076465, which discharges to Unnamed Trib Of Steele Ck;Willow Ck. EPA’s file records it issued September 28, 2017 and expiring May 1, 2022. 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.

Identity

Facility as filedOAK GROVE LIGNITE MINING AREA
Permittee as filedLUMINANT MINING CO, LLC
NPDES IDTX0076465
Permit statusAdministratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit typeIndividual permit
Discharger classMajor discharger
Facility typeNot a publicly owned treatment works
IssuedSeptember 28, 2017
Expiration dateMay 1, 2022
AddressBremond, TX 76653
Receiving waterUNNAMED TRIB OF STEELE CK;WILLOW CK
Receiving water impaired303(D) Listed
SubwatershedHeadwaters Pond Creek (HUC 120701010401)
SIC1221 – Bituminous Coal And Lignite - Surface
Other EPA IDs (FRS)RCRA handler TXR000081251

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

An effluent exceedance is a discharge monitoring report value over the permit’s numeric limit (EPA’s violation code E90). A violation of any kind also counts a report not filed. Each row is EPA’s own count for that pollutant.

Pollutant or measureLimitsViolations, any kindEffluent exceedancesLatest exceedanceLargest exceedance, as filed
pH18731May 31, 2025
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant18700
Solids, total suspended16400
Iron, total [as Fe]16400
Selenium, total [as Se]8200
Solids, settleable1160
Aluminum, total [as Al]600

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

DateWhat EPA recordedAgency
June 17, 2025Permit Violations - Violation Specified in CommentST6
May 2, 2023Permit Violations - Violation Specified in CommentST6

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.

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What this page shows

This public-records page covers Clean Water Act discharge permit NPDES TX0076465 for the OAK GROVE LIGNITE MINING AREA in Bremond, TX, held by LUMINANT MINING CO, LLC, which discharges to Unnamed Trib Of Steele Ck;Willow Ck. The permit is listed as a Major Discharger class permit and is administratively continued, with a permit status count of 7 pollutants under a numeric limit and 1 pollutant with an effluent exceedance. The file records the permit as issued September 28, 2017 and expiring May 1, 2022, with the subwatershed given as HUC 120701010401.