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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES VAM081651

HIOPE #7 MINE, Amonate, VA: NPDES VAM081651 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

HIOPE #7 MINE, held by RAMACO RESOURCES, LLC, holds NPDES permit VAM081651. EPA’s file records it issued May 23, 2018 and expiring July 22, 2023. 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 HIOPE #7 MINE: its NPDES ID, its permit type and status, its dates, its address in Amonate, Virginia. EPA’s effluent violation file and its single-event violation file hold no violation for NPDES VAM081651.

Identity

Facility as filedHIOPE #7 MINE
Permittee as filedRAMACO RESOURCES, LLC
NPDES IDVAM081651
Permit statusAdministratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit typeIndividual permit
Discharger classMinor discharger
Facility typeNot a publicly owned treatment works
IssuedMay 23, 2018
Expiration dateJuly 22, 2023
Issuing agencyVA DMME
AddressAmonate, VA
SubwatershedUpper Dry Fork (HUC 050702010103)

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 VAM081651.

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 VAM081651.

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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What this page shows

This public-records page covers the NPDES discharge permit VAM081651 for HIOPE #7 MINE in Amonate, VA, held by RAMACO RESOURCES, LLC, with a status of administratively continued and a minor discharger class. The page lists 0 pollutants under a numeric limit and 0 pollutants with an effluent exceedance, and it records no effluent or single-event violation in EPA's files for this permit.