Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES VAM081974
LAUREL FORK MINE, Amonate, VA: NPDES VAM081974 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties
- Administratively continuedPermit status
- MinorDischarger class
- 0Pollutants under a numeric limit
- 0Pollutants with an effluent exceedance
LAUREL FORK MINE, held by BUCHANAN MINERALS, LLC, holds NPDES permit VAM081974. EPA’s file records it issued May 18, 2016 and expiring June 14, 2021. 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.
What the register holds for LAUREL FORK 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 VAM081974.
Identity
| Facility as filed | LAUREL FORK MINE |
|---|---|
| Permittee as filed | BUCHANAN MINERALS, LLC |
| NPDES ID | VAM081974 |
| Permit status | Administratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued) |
| Permit type | Individual permit |
| Discharger class | Minor discharger |
| Facility type | Not a publicly owned treatment works |
| Issued | May 18, 2016 |
| Expiration date | June 14, 2021 |
| Issuing agency | VA DMME |
| Address | Amonate, VA |
| Subwatershed | Upper Dry Fork (HUC 050702010103) |
| SIC | 1222 – Bituminous Coal - Underground |
Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES permit file (ECHO download) and EPA’s NAICS/SIC and component files, the same 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 VAM081974.
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 VAM081974.
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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Figures from EPA’s ICIS-NPDES download, loaded October 14, 2026.