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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES TXRNEBY28

SPACEX BILLY MITCHELL SITE, Brownsville, TX: NPDES TXRNEBY28 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

SPACEX BILLY MITCHELL SITE, held by Space Exploration Technologies Corp., holds NPDES permit TXRNEBY28. EPA’s file records it issued July 31, 2022 and expiring August 13, 2026.

SPACEX BILLY MITCHELL SITE, Brownsville, Texas: Coverage under a general permit TXRNEBY28, held by Space Exploration Technologies Corp.; Industrial stormwater; Administratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued); issued July 31, 2022, term to August 13, 2026.

Texas holds 8,480 Industrial stormwater coverages of this permit type in EPA’s file; 3,471 were issued before TXRNEBY28. Space Exploration Technologies Corp. holds 23 permits in Texas.

Other permits held by Space Exploration Technologies Corp.

Coverages issued nearest TXRNEBY28

SPACEX BILLY MITCHELL SITE among its neighbors

EPA’s permit file holds 199 discharge permits in the Bahia Grande-Brownsville Ship Channel subwatershed (HUC 121102080900), TXRNEBY28 among them.

Other permits in the Bahia Grande-Brownsville Ship Channel subwatershed (HUC 121102080900)

What the register holds for SPACEX BILLY MITCHELL SITE: its NPDES ID, its permit type and status, its dates, its address in Brownsville, Texas. EPA’s effluent violation file and its single-event violation file hold no violation for NPDES TXRNEBY28.

Identity

Facility as filedSPACEX BILLY MITCHELL SITE
Permittee as filedSpace Exploration Technologies Corp.
NPDES IDTXRNEBY28
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
IssuedJuly 31, 2022
Expiration dateAugust 13, 2026
AddressBrownsville, TX 78521
SubwatershedBahia Grande-Brownsville Ship Channel (HUC 121102080900)
SIC3761 – Guided Missiles And Space Vehicles

Effluent limits and exceedances

EPA’s limits and effluent violation files hold no pollutant row for NPDES TXRNEBY28.

Inspections, violations and enforcement

EPA’s single-event violation file, as loaded, holds no violation for NPDES TXRNEBY28.

Inspections

EPA’s inspection file holds no inspection for NPDES TXRNEBY28.

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 TXRNEBY28.

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Figures from EPA’s ICIS-NPDES download, loaded October 14, 2026.

What this page shows

The SpaceX Billy Mitchell Site permit, filed under Space Exploration Technologies Corp., is one of 17 storm water industrial permits on EPA's NPDES register in Brownsville, and 41.2% of those 17 were issued earlier than it. It sits within the Bahia Grande-Brownsville Ship Channel subwatershed, which holds 199 NPDES permits, and it has no pollutants under a numeric limit or effluent exceedances on file, while 0.0% of the Brownsville storm water industrial permits carry a violation.