AZALEA BATTERY

Azalea Battery is a single-facility crude petroleum extraction operation located 8.3 miles southwest of Jal, in Lea County, New Mexico, under EPA facility registry ID 110070864892 [source: https://pollutionscan.com/facility/110070864892/azalea-battery-jal-nm]. The name requires immediate clarification. In oilfield terminology, a "battery" is a tank battery — a cluster of storage tanks and separators that receive crude from nearby wells — not a battery-manufacturing plant. EPA ECHO data aggregated as of May 4, 2026 records 8 violation quarters in the trailing 24 months and a derived penalty exposure of $16,134,727 over that window, against zero currently active permits and a latest permit date of December 30, 2019 [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip].

The site carries a compliance grade of F (32/100) on third-party aggregator PollutionScan. That grade reflects 12 violation quarters and $40,336,818 in total penalties across the 5-year window, with one formal enforcement action logged under the Clean Air Act program [source: https://pollutionscan.com/facility/110070864892/azalea-battery-jal-nm]. Days since last on-site evaluation stand at 2,253 — approximately 6.2 years. That gap matters: the violation history has accrued through quarterly non-compliance reporting rather than fresh inspections, meaning no regulator has physically visited the site within the measurement window [source: https://pollutionscan.com/facility/110070864892/azalea-battery-jal-nm]. The company is privately held, carries no CIK, files no 10-K or 10-Q, and publishes no sustainability report that surfaces in open search. Environmental-justice index data returns zero for the census block, consistent with the remote Permian Basin siting [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip].

The Azalea Battery facility is regulated primarily under the Clean Air Act (CAA), which is the sole program listed as Active for the site in EPA's compliance history [source: https://pollutionscan.com/facility/110070864892/azalea-battery-jal-nm]. No Clean Water Act (CWA) or Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) program status is shown as Active. The facility's NAICS code of 211120 — Crude Petroleum Extraction — places it within the Permian Basin upstream production cohort, where CAA obligations typically center on volatile organic compound (VOC) leaks, flaring controls, storage-tank vapor recovery, and New Source Performance Standards Subpart OOOO/OOOOa compliance [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip].

The compliance signal for Azalea Battery spans the trailing 12-quarter window displayed in EPA's Detailed Facility Report surface. Every displayed quarter shows a status flag. PollutionScan's rendering lists 13 quarterly marks, with the facility flagged in Significant Non-Compliance (SNC) or Violation status across multiple periods and no clean "No Violation" quarters in the visible record [source: https://pollutionscan.com/facility/110070864892/azalea-battery-jal-nm]. The derived 24-month violation count of 8 reported in EPA ECHO's exporter is capped at the 8-quarter maximum, meaning the site was non-compliant in every quarter of the measurement window under the derivation rule applied — viol_24mo = min(qtrs_with_nc, 8) [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. One formal enforcement action has been taken across the 5-year record. The remainder of the non-compliance has not escalated to formal federal action as of the May 4, 2026 data pull [source: https://pollutionscan.com/facility/110070864892/azalea-battery-jal-nm].

Two structural features of this record require explicit notation. First, Total Inspections is listed as zero across the visible history, while Days Since Last Evaluation stands at 2,253 — indicating that the quarterly SNC flags have been generated through self-reported data, third-party audits, or desk reviews rather than on-site EPA or state evaluations [source: https://pollutionscan.com/facility/110070864892/azalea-battery-jal-nm]. Second, the latest active permit is dated December 30, 2019, and the active_permits_count field returns zero. That zero may reflect permit expiration, a shift to a general permit not individually enumerated, or a data-availability lag in ECHO's permit crosswalk — the underlying data is uncertain on this point, and the zero count should not be read as a definitive compliance gap [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. The $16.13 million 24-month penalty figure is itself derived — computed as total 5-year penalties multiplied by 24/60 — rather than tied to a single adjudicated order. Readers should treat it as an allocation estimate rather than a cash penalty assessed in-window [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip].

Public aggregators surface one formal enforcement action in the 5-year record for EPA facility ID 110070864892, logged under the Clean Air Act program [source: https://pollutionscan.com/facility/110070864892/azalea-battery-jal-nm]. The specific case docket, assessed penalty, and consent-agreement terms are not disclosed in the ECHO exporter summary or in the PollutionScan facility profile at the level of granularity that would permit citation of a docket number or effective date. The $40,336,818 five-year total-penalty figure recorded on PollutionScan and the $16,134,727 24-month derived figure in the ECHO exporter reflect aggregated penalty exposure across the compliance history rather than a single adjudicated fine [source: https://pollutionscan.com/facility/110070864892/azalea-battery-jal-nm] [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. Across the 12 quarterly non-compliance flags, no individual quarter-by-quarter violation narratives are exposed in the open research bundle. EPA ECHO's Detailed Facility Report would need to be queried directly at echo.epa.gov for the per-quarter High Priority Violator (HPV) or SNC designation reasons [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. No CWA or RCRA enforcement actions are indicated in the available data [source: https://pollutionscan.com/facility/110070864892/azalea-battery-jal-nm].

No federal court docket appears in CourtListener or PACER results within the research bundle tied to this facility name. The Exa neural-search result matching "Azalea Battery" returns only the PollutionScan compliance record. Other "Azalea" hits correspond to unrelated entities: a nursing home in Alabama and a Yuasa Battery consent order in Pennsylvania — neither connected to the Jal, NM tank battery [source: https://violationtracker.goodjobsfirst.org/violation-tracker/al-azalea-health-and-rehab-llc] [source: http://www.depgreenport.state.pa.us/elibrary/PDFProvider.ashx?PromptToSave=False&Size=1804502&ViewerMode=2&action=PDFStream&chksum=&docID=3912&docName=12+APPENDIX+C-2+-+PORTIONS+OF+YUASA+COA&nativeExt=pdf&overlay=0&revision=0].

Azalea Battery — Jal, NM (EPA ID 110070864892). The lone facility in the company's registry footprint. Located 8.3 miles southwest of Jal in Lea County, New Mexico — deep Permian Basin geography — the site is classified under NAICS 211120 Crude Petroleum Extraction and is Active under the Clean Air Act program [source: https://pollutionscan.com/facility/110070864892/azalea-battery-jal-nm]. The EJ index average for the census block returns 0.0 in the ECHO exporter pull, consistent with low residential population density in the surrounding tract [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip].

PollutionScan assigns a compliance grade of F (32/100), the lowest band, driven by 12 violation quarters over the 5-year window and $40,336,818 in cumulative penalty exposure [source: https://pollutionscan.com/facility/110070864892/azalea-battery-jal-nm]. Zero on-site inspections are logged in the compliance history surface, with 2,253 days elapsed since the last evaluation and one formal federal action recorded [source: https://pollutionscan.com/facility/110070864892/azalea-battery-jal-nm]. No other facilities are tied to the azalea-battery registry slug in the EPA data bundle; the facility_count field returns 1 [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. Nearby-facility geography listed on PollutionScan includes the Red Hills Gas Processing Plant, which itself appears in the NAICS peer benchmark with 8 violation quarters and $19.1 million in 24-month derived penalty exposure — indicating the Lea County corridor carries a cluster of Permian upstream compliance signals [source: https://pollutionscan.com/facility/110070864892/azalea-battery-jal-nm].

The EPA ECHO exporter returns an empty top_pollutants array for Azalea Battery, meaning no specific TRI or NEI-reported chemical tonnages are attached to the facility in the pull [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. That absence is itself informative. Upstream crude extraction tank batteries under NAICS 211120 typically fall below Toxics Release Inventory reporting thresholds on a per-site basis, and emissions are instead captured through CAA New Source Performance Standards reporting rather than TRI [source: https://pollutionscan.com/facility/110070864892/azalea-battery-jal-nm].

Given the Active CAA program status and the facility type, the emission categories of regulatory interest for a Permian tank battery are: (1) volatile organic compounds (VOCs), including benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, and xylenes (BTEX) that volatilize from crude storage tanks and separator vents; (2) methane, regulated under NSPS Subpart OOOOa/OOOOb for fugitive leaks, pneumatic controllers, and storage-tank vapor recovery; and (3) hydrogen sulfide (H2S), a concern in sour-crude Permian zones. None of these are individually enumerated in the available Azalea Battery data bundle. Readers seeking pollutant-specific tonnage would need to consult the New Mexico Environment Department Air Quality Bureau's Permian reporting, which is not included in the research surface [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. The EJ index of 0.0 indicates the surrounding census block group does not screen as an environmental-justice community of concern under EPA's EJScreen methodology, reflecting the remote siting rather than the absence of emissions [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip].

Within the NAICS 211120 / 211130 upstream peer cohort, Azalea Battery's 8 violation-quarter count ties with Red Hills Gas Processing Plant and Amen Corner CTB, and ranks above Greka Bell Compressor Plant, which registers zero violation quarters in the 24-month window despite a $26.16 million penalty allocation driven by a single large historical action [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. The penalty figures tell a different story than the violation counts. Azalea Battery's $16.13 million derived 24-month penalty exposure sits below both Greka Bell ($26.16M) and Red Hills ($19.13M), and matches Amen Corner CTB at $16.13 million — a close-to-identical allocation that suggests either similar underlying penalty orders or a shared derivation pattern in the ECHO exporter's 24/60 pro-rata methodology [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. All four peers return an EJ index average of 0.0, reflecting the remote Permian and West Texas siting of tank batteries and compressor stations. Red Hills Gas Processing is specifically listed as a nearby facility to Azalea Battery in the PollutionScan proximity surface, indicating geographic clustering of compliance signals in the Lea County corridor [source: https://pollutionscan.com/facility/110070864892/azalea-battery-jal-nm].

Azalea Battery is privately held with no CIK and files no 10-K or 10-Q; no Item 1A forward-looking environmental risk disclosure exists in the SEC EDGAR system for this entity [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. Absent SEC disclosure, forward-looking environmental risk for the Jal facility is inferable only from the continuing Active status under the Clean Air Act program, the 2,253-day gap since last evaluation, and the expired or inactive permit status as of the December 30, 2019 latest-permit date recorded in ECHO. Any one of those three conditions could become the trigger for a renewed regulatory inspection cycle [source: https://pollutionscan.com/facility/110070864892/azalea-battery-jal-nm] [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip].