SHUGART BOOSTER STATION

Shugart Booster Station, a natural gas compressor facility located six miles south of Maljamar, New Mexico (Lea County), operates under NAICS 211130 and is associated with DCP Operating Company, LP, a Phillips 66 subsidiary per a 2024 Notice of Violation addressed to DCP personnel at 2331 CityWest Blvd, Houston [source: https://service.web.env.nm.gov/urls/TRkohIit]. EPA ECHO data as of May 4, 2026 shows one facility (ID 110022779769), one violation quarter within the trailing 24 months, zero active permits on file, and a derived 24-month penalty exposure of $12,641,946.40, calculated from a five-year total of $31,604,866 [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip] [source: https://pollutionscan.com/facility/110022779769/shugart-booster-station-maljamar-nm].

The station carries a Clean Air Act compliance profile with one formal enforcement action and 858 days since its last evaluation according to third-party ECHO mirror PollutionScan, which grades the facility "C" (67/100) [source: https://pollutionscan.com/facility/110022779769/shugart-booster-station-maljamar-nm]. On April 26, 2024, the New Mexico Environment Department issued Notice of Violation AQB Case No. DCP-0242-2301 to DCP Operating Company, naming the Shugart Booster Station as the subject facility [source: https://service.web.env.nm.gov/urls/TRkohIit]. That NOV is the single most concrete enforcement marker in the record. Because the operator is private and no CIK is on file, there is no 10-K, 10-Q, or standalone sustainability disclosure attributable to the facility; parent-entity statements from Phillips 66 fall outside this briefing's verified source bundle. The EJ index is reported as 0.0 in ECHO for this location — a figure that reflects the rural census geography surrounding Maljamar rather than an absence of exposure [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip].

The Shugart Booster Station is a single-point natural gas gathering and boost facility regulated under the Clean Air Act Title V and minor-source framework administered by the New Mexico Environment Department Air Quality Bureau. ECHO records list one FRS-identified facility (110022779769), one inspection on file, one formal action, and one quarter flagged with noncompliance in the rolling 12-quarter view [source: https://pollutionscan.com/facility/110022779769/shugart-booster-station-maljamar-nm]. The derived 24-month civil penalty exposure of $12.64 million, pro-rated from a five-year cumulative total of $31.6 million, is an arithmetic extrapolation flagged explicitly in the ECHO exporter methodology — specifically, viol_24mo=min(qtrs_with_nc,8) and penalty_24mo=total_5yr*(24/60) — and should not be read as an adjudicated 24-month cash penalty [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip].

The chronology of the past 24 months begins on April 26, 2024. That day, NMED Air Quality Bureau Cabinet Secretary James C. Kenney's office issued a Notice of Violation to Ray Smalts at DCP Operating Company, LP (AQB Case No. DCP-0242-2301), identifying state and federal air quality regulatory violations at the Shugart Booster Station [source: https://service.web.env.nm.gov/urls/TRkohIit]. The most recent permit action on file in the ECHO exporter is dated October 25, 2023 [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. PollutionScan records indicate 858 days since the last evaluation as of the scrape date, pointing to limited on-site inspection frequency during the post-NOV period [source: https://pollutionscan.com/facility/110022779769/shugart-booster-station-maljamar-nm]. No federal consent decree specific to Shugart Booster Station appears in the research bundle. The Sunoco consent decree surfaced by neural search originates in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and is a separate matter entirely, not attributable to this facility [source: https://www.cerc.usgs.gov/orda_docs/DocHandler.ashx?ID=423&task=get].

Adjacent-facility context sharpens the picture. PollutionScan's nearby-facility listing flags West Turkey Track Booster in Maljamar with an identical $31,604,866 five-year penalty figure, indicating probable clustering of enforcement within the same DCP/Phillips 66 midstream network in Lea County [source: https://pollutionscan.com/facility/110022779769/shugart-booster-station-maljamar-nm]. The 2023 SSRN working paper on New Mexico large-facility pollution documents the broader regulatory context of Permian Basin midstream emissions and their equity implications [source: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4354671]. Because the operator is private, investor-facing environmental risk factors are not available via SEC EDGAR for this entity.

Action 1 — NMED Notice of Violation, April 26, 2024. Issuing agency: New Mexico Environment Department, Air Quality Bureau, 525 Camino de los Marquez, Suite 1A, Santa Fe, NM. Case number: DCP-0242-2301. Named respondent: DCP Operating Company, LP (Ray Smalts, recipient). Program: Clean Air Act and New Mexico state air quality regulations. Facility: Shugart Booster Station, six miles south of Maljamar, NM 88264. Outcome: NOV issued; the letter initiated the state administrative enforcement process and requested a response from the operator [source: https://service.web.env.nm.gov/urls/TRkohIit].

Action 2 — Federal ECHO formal action (one count). ECHO aggregates one formal action under the Clean Air Act program for FRS ID 110022779769 over the five-year lookback [source: https://pollutionscan.com/facility/110022779769/shugart-booster-station-maljamar-nm]. Penalty allocation: ECHO's five-year cumulative penalty total of $31,604,866 is distributed across the DCP Maljamar-area cluster; the 24-month pro-rata for Shugart is $12,641,946.40 by the ECHO exporter derivation formula [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. The research bundle does not contain a docketed consent decree or final administrative order specifically naming Shugart Booster Station within the 24-month window. The $12.6 million figure therefore represents statistical allocation rather than a confirmed cash settlement — a distinction that matters for any downstream financial analysis.

Last permit action of record: October 25, 2023 (permit type not disclosed in the ECHO summary bundle) [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. No RCRA or CWA actions appear in the research bundle for this facility. The compliance profile is Clean Air Act-exclusive [source: https://pollutionscan.com/facility/110022779769/shugart-booster-station-maljamar-nm].

Shugart Booster Station (Maljamar, NM — FRS 110022779769). The single facility in scope. Clean Air Act active status, Grade C (67/100) on the PollutionScan mirror, one inspection, one formal action, one violation quarter in the trailing three-year window, and 858 days since the last recorded evaluation [source: https://pollutionscan.com/facility/110022779769/shugart-booster-station-maljamar-nm]. The ECHO-reported EJ index average is 0.0, which reflects the sparse population of the surrounding Lea County census geography rather than an affirmative finding of zero community exposure [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip].

West Turkey Track Booster (Maljamar, NM — nearby peer). Listed by PollutionScan as an adjacent violator carrying an identical $31,604,866 five-year penalty figure, consistent with a cluster enforcement posture affecting the DCP/Phillips 66 Maljamar booster network [source: https://pollutionscan.com/facility/110022779769/shugart-booster-station-maljamar-nm]. This facility falls outside the ECHO scope of this briefing but supplies useful geographic context for understanding how enforcement weight is distributed across the network.

Maljamar-area co-located facility (unnamed third site). PollutionScan's nearby-facility module lists a third Maljamar-area violator under the "MALJAMAR" label. No additional identifying data was surfaced in the research bundle [source: https://pollutionscan.com/facility/110022779769/shugart-booster-station-maljamar-nm].

Additional facilities four and five: no further facilities are attributable to the Shugart Booster Station operator within the supplied research set. ECHO facility_count=1 [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip].

ECHO's top_pollutants array for this facility is empty in the supplied summary, and no TRI release data is included in the research bundle [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. The CAA active-program designation and the NMED Air Quality Bureau's jurisdiction confirm that regulated emission streams fall under state air quality rules applicable to natural gas compressor and booster stations [source: https://service.web.env.nm.gov/urls/TRkohIit]. Three pollutant categories are typical for compressor stations in the Permian Basin, per peer-reviewed and regulatory literature on New Mexico large-facility sources. First, volatile organic compounds — benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, and xylenes — associated with fugitive emissions from seals, valves, and storage equipment. Second, oxides of nitrogen (NOx) from reciprocating internal combustion engines that drive compression. Third, methane, which is both a potent greenhouse gas and a proxy for the co-emitted VOC stream [source: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4354671].

Exposure pathways in the Maljamar airshed are primarily inhalation via downwind dispersion across sparsely populated ranchland and oilfield worker environments. Groundwater pathways are secondary given the facility's compression function rather than produced-water handling [source: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4354671]. Equity implications in Lea County are documented in the 2023 SSRN analysis of New Mexico large-facility pollution, which finds disproportionate cumulative exposure in several oil-and-gas-producing counties despite low nominal EJ index scores — scores driven down by population density rather than by low exposure intensity [source: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4354671]. That methodological gap between population-weighted scoring and actual inhalation burden is directly relevant to interpreting the 0.0 EJ figure for this site.

Within the NAICS 211120/211130 natural gas extraction and gathering peer set, Shugart Booster Station's $12.64 million 24-month derived penalty exposure and single violation quarter place it below all three top-penalty peers surfaced in the ECHO benchmark. Greka Bell Compressor Plant carries a higher $26.16 million 24-month exposure with zero violation quarters — penalty weight tied to a small number of severe actions rather than recurring quarterly noncompliance. Red Hills Gas Processing Plant and Azalea Battery each show the maximum eight violation quarters in the 24-month window, with penalty exposures of $19.13 million and $16.13 million respectively. That pattern is consistent with chronic quarterly noncompliance across multiple reporting periods. Shugart's one-quarter profile sits closer to Greka Bell's episodic pattern than to the Red Hills and Azalea chronic pattern [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip].

No SEC 10-K is on file for the operator of Shugart Booster Station. The facility is operated by DCP Operating Company, LP, a Phillips 66 subsidiary per NMED correspondence [source: https://service.web.env.nm.gov/urls/TRkohIit]. Item 1A forward-looking environmental risk language specific to this facility is therefore not available in the research bundle. Readers requiring forward-looking risk language should consult Phillips 66's 10-K (CIK 0001534701) directly; that filing is not included in the supplied source set, and no citation is offered here to avoid URL fabrication.