A consent decree or an administrative order puts a named utility on a compliance schedule with a capital budget attached. That is usually why anybody goes looking for its overflow history at all. So the record carries one more column: whether a federal civil enforcement case names this permit.
EPA’s weekly export of federal civil enforcement cases, retrieved on 15 September 2026, is an 80,706,865 byte download of 22 files holding 136,420 activities, of which 32,673 cite the Clean Water Act. Of the cases under that act, 5,372 are water and sewer cases.
What gets published
A case exists, and here is its number. A reader takes the number to the decree document itself.
A permit with no case gets a stated answer: no federal civil enforcement case in this export names this permit. Somebody sorting a list can use that. A blank would leave them unable to tell it apart from a permit nobody checked.
Matched on the permit number only
The defendant’s name is not used, nor a city, nor a close match of either. Two utilities in two states share a name often enough that a name match would put an order against a utility that is not under one.
No deadline
The compliance schedule lives in the decree document, case by case. No milestone on any of the 5,372 water and sewer cases is dated later than 2026, so the table has nothing later to report. Reading urgency into a case’s presence would overstate what the export says about a named public agency.
The published record has no field for a date, which is deliberate. A shape with nowhere to put one cannot carry one onto a page by accident.