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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES TXR05GE45

KAT METAL AND RECYCLERS, Houston, TX: NPDES TXR05GE45 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

KAT METAL AND RECYCLERS, held by KB International, LLC, holds NPDES permit TXR05GE45. EPA’s file records it issued August 11, 2023 and expiring August 13, 2026. 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 KAT METAL AND RECYCLERS: its NPDES ID, its permit type and status, its dates, its address in Houston, Texas. EPA’s effluent violation file and its single-event violation file hold no violation for NPDES TXR05GE45.

Identity

Facility as filedKAT METAL AND RECYCLERS
Permittee as filedKB International, LLC
NPDES IDTXR05GE45
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
IssuedAugust 11, 2023
Expiration dateAugust 13, 2026
AddressHouston, TX 77050
SubwatershedMiddle Greens Bayou (HUC 120401040605)

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 TXR05GE45.

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 TXR05GE45.

Inspections

EPA’s inspection file holds no inspection for NPDES TXR05GE45.

Formal enforcement and penalties

0 formal actions, 0 of them with a penalty assessed. Federal and state penalties are separate figures from separate authorities and are shown as each was filed, never added together.

Informal enforcement

EPA’s informal enforcement file holds no action for NPDES TXR05GE45.

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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KAT METAL AND RECYCLERS, Houston, Texas: Coverage under a general permit TXR05GE45, held by KB International, LLC; Industrial stormwater; Administratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued); issued August 11, 2023, term to August 13, 2026.

Texas holds 8,480 Industrial stormwater coverages of this permit type in EPA’s file; 4,826 were issued before TXR05GE45.

Coverages issued nearest TXR05GE45

KAT METAL AND RECYCLERS among its neighbors

EPA’s permit file holds 44 discharge permits in the Middle Greens Bayou subwatershed (HUC 120401040605), TXR05GE45 among them.

Other permits in the Middle Greens Bayou subwatershed (HUC 120401040605)

Nearby on the register

Figures from EPA’s ICIS-NPDES download, loaded September 15, 2026.

What this page shows

KAT METAL AND RECYCLERS is one of 428 storm water industrial permits in Houston, and 98.1% of those permits were issued earlier than this one. The permit sits within a subwatershed that contains 44 NPDES permits, this one included, and it has no pollutants under a numeric limit and no pollutants with an effluent exceedance.