Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES UT0022616
EMERY MINE, Emery, UT: NPDES UT0022616 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties
- Administratively continuedPermit status
- MajorDischarger class
- 34Pollutants under a numeric limit
- 6Pollutants with an effluent exceedance
EMERY MINE, held by Bronco Utah Operations, LLC (BUOLLC), holds NPDES permit UT0022616, which discharges to Quitchupah Creek. EPA’s file records it issued December 11, 2017 and expiring December 31, 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 filed | EMERY MINE |
|---|---|
| Permittee as filed | Bronco Utah Operations, LLC (BUOLLC) |
| NPDES ID | UT0022616 |
| Permit status | Administratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued) |
| Permit type | Individual permit |
| Discharger class | Major discharger |
| Facility type | Not a publicly owned treatment works |
| Program | Industrial stormwater |
| Issued | December 11, 2017 |
| Expiration date | December 31, 2022 |
| Issuing agency | UTAH DEQ WATER QUALITY |
| Address | Emery, UT 84522 |
| Receiving water | QUITCHUPAH CREEK |
| Receiving water impaired | 303(D) Listed |
| Subwatershed | Christiansen Wash-Quitchupah Creek (HUC 140700020106) |
| NAICS | 212111 – Bituminous Coal and Lignite Surface Mining |
| SIC | 1221 – Bituminous Coal And Lignite - Surface |
| Other EPA IDs (FRS) | RCRA handler UTD988066858 |
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
- 34Pollutants on file
- 34Under a numeric limit
- 11With a violation of any kind
- 6With an effluent exceedance
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 measure | Limits | Violations, any kind | Effluent exceedances | Latest exceedance | Largest exceedance, as filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Solids, total dissolved | 11 | 174 | 79 | June 30, 2012 | 64,900% over the limit |
| Flow rate | 9 | 145 | 29 | June 30, 2012 | 640% over the limit |
| Iron, total [as Fe] | 9 | 102 | 15 | September 30, 2018 | 256% over the limit |
| Solids, total suspended | 27 | 237 | 3 | June 30, 2004 | 116% over the limit |
| pH | 18 | 177 | 2 | May 31, 2012 | |
| Solids, settleable | 9 | 65 | 1 | September 30, 2018 | 673,100% over the limit |
| Oil and grease | 9 | 92 | 0 | ||
| Oil and grease visual | 9 | 87 | 0 | ||
| Sulfate, total [as SO4] | 9 | 58 | 0 | ||
| Pass/Fail Static Renewal 48Hr Acute Ceriodaphnia dubia | 4 | 5 | 0 | ||
| Pass/Fail Static Renewal 96Hr Acute Pimephales Promelas | 4 | 4 | 0 | ||
| Sulfate [as S] | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Cyanide, total [as CN] | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Arsenic, total [as As] | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Cadmium, total [as Cd] | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Chromium, total [as Cr] | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Copper, total [as Cu] | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Lead, total [as Pb] | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Nickel, total [as Ni] | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Silver, total [as Ag] | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Zinc, total [as Zn] | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Selenium, total [as Se] | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Selenium, total recoverable | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Nickel, total recoverable | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Silver total recoverable | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Zinc, total recoverable | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Cadmium, total recoverable | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Lead, total recoverable | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Chromium, total recoverable | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Copper, total recoverable | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Arsenic | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Mercury, total [as Hg] | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Mercury, total recoverable | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Cyanide, total recoverable | 1 | 0 | 0 |
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 UT0022616.
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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