Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES TXR1548SH

LITTLE BEAR CREEK RECHARGE ENHANCEMENT FACILITY, Buda, TX: NPDES TXR1548SH discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

EffectivePermit status
MinorDischarger class
0Pollutants under a numeric limit
0Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

LITTLE BEAR CREEK RECHARGE ENHANCEMENT FACILITY, held by M. A. Smith Contracting Company, Inc., holds NPDES permit TXR1548SH, which discharges to Little Bear Creek. EPA’s file records it issued October 1, 2024 and expiring March 4, 2028. 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 LITTLE BEAR CREEK RECHARGE ENHANCEMENT FACILITY: its NPDES ID, its permit type and status, its dates, its address in Buda, Texas, its receiving water. EPA’s effluent violation file and its single-event violation file hold no violation for NPDES TXR1548SH.

Identity

Facility as filed	LITTLE BEAR CREEK RECHARGE ENHANCEMENT FACILITY
Permittee as filed	M. A. Smith Contracting Company, Inc.
NPDES ID	TXR1548SH
Permit status	Effective
Permit type	Coverage under a general permit
Discharger class	Minor discharger
Facility type	Not a publicly owned treatment works
Program	Construction stormwater
Issued	October 1, 2024
Expiration date	March 4, 2028
Address	Buda, TX 78610
Receiving water	LITTLE BEAR CREEK
Subwatershed	Bear Creek (HUC 120902050406)

Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES permit file (ECHO download).

Effluent limits and exceedances

0Pollutants on file
0Under a numeric limit
0With a violation of any kind
0With an effluent exceedance

EPA’s limits and effluent violation files hold no pollutant row for NPDES TXR1548SH.

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

0Single-event violations

EPA’s single-event violation file, as loaded, holds no violation for NPDES TXR1548SH.

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 September 15, 2026.

The LITTLE BEAR CREEK RECHARGE ENHANCEMENT FACILITY in Buda, Hays County, Texas, is one of 336 storm water construction permits in Hays County on EPA's NPDES register, and it sits among 27 NPDES permits in the Bear Creek subwatershed, this one included. Of those 336 storm water construction permits, 0.6% have a violation on file, and 30.4% of them were issued earlier than this permit. The permit records no pollutants under a numeric limit and no pollutants with an effluent exceedance, both counted at 0.