UNITED PARCEL SERVICE - BURTONSVILLE (MDBUR)

United Parcel Service's Burtonsville, Maryland facility (EPA Registry ID 110019881840) recorded zero quarters of noncompliance in the EPA ECHO 24-month window, yet carries an allocated penalty exposure of $2.12 million drawn from the five-year settlement pool. That figure represents the site's proportional share of the October 2022 nationwide hazardous waste consent agreement, which swept in 1,160 UPS facilities across 45 states [source: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/ups-settles-epa-correct-alleged-hazardous-waste-violations-nationwide]. The site reports no active permits as of the most recent ECHO refresh on 04 May 2026, and its last permit action dates to 10 March 2017 — a profile consistent with a small-quantity generator rather than a major stationary source [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. Environmental Justice index averages come in at 0.0, a result that reflects a Census-block proximity dataset returning no flagged demographic overlays, not an affirmative finding of low EJ burden.

Parent-level context shapes the picture materially. UPS posted $88.7 billion in 2025 revenue and moved 5.2 billion packages on an average daily volume of 20.8 million [source: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1090727/000162828026008432/ups-20251231.htm]. At the corporate-entity slug, ECHO attributes 8 violations and $10.64 million in 24-month penalty exposure across 11 facilities [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. Then, in May 2026, UPS announced the closure of 27 additional parcel facilities, lifting the 2026 shutdown total to 51 sites. That network contraction will measurably alter the company's RCRA-generator footprint going forward [source: https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/ups-close-27-additional-parcel-134020058.html]. The Burtonsville node sits inside a broader compliance narrative defined by the 2022 national settlement rather than any site-specific enforcement action.

The dominant compliance event affecting this facility is the 19 October 2022 settlement between UPS and EPA addressing alleged violations of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act at 1,160 UPS facilities across 45 states and Puerto Rico. The agreement required UPS to implement corporate-wide environmental management policies to prevent recurrence of hazardous waste mishandling, and the allocated penalty flowed through ECHO's facility-level apportionment logic to sites including Burtonsville [source: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/ups-settles-epa-correct-alleged-hazardous-waste-violations-nationwide]. ECHO's derivation notes confirm that the $2.12 million figure attached to MDBUR is produced by the exporter formula penalty_24mo = total_5yr × (24/60) — a pro-rated share of the multi-year settlement, not a discrete 2024–2026 fine [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip].

Over the trailing 24 months, quarter-by-quarter ECHO snapshots record zero noncompliance quarters at Burtonsville. No new CWA, CAA, or RCRA formal enforcement actions appear in the ECHO exporter tied to Registry ID 110019881840 during the window ending 04 May 2026 [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. Maryland-level baseline statistics add useful scale: 37,190 regulated facilities, 10,611 recorded violations, and $110.3 million in cumulative statewide penalties place the UPS Burtonsville posture well below the Perdue AgriBusiness Salisbury complex and other top-ranked Maryland violators [source: https://pollutionscan.com/state/MD]. Historical Montgomery County land-use records, including the Burtonsville-area Superfund inventory, show the parcel hub operates in a corridor with legacy contamination sites, but no direct CERCLA linkage to the UPS operation has been established [source: https://www.homefacts.com/environmentalhazards/superfunds/Maryland/Montgomery-County/Burtonsville.html].

At the enterprise level, the chronology runs from the October 2022 nationwide RCRA consent agreement, through the March 2025 publication of UPS's 2024 GRI Report [source: https://about.ups.com/content/dam/upsstories/images/our-impact/reporting/2024-UPS-GRI-Report.pdf], into the 17 February 2026 10-K filing covering fiscal 2025 [source: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1090727/000162828026008432/ups-20251231.htm], and the Q1 2026 earnings cycle in which UPS disclosed the 51-facility closure program alongside GAAP earnings declines [source: https://www.tradingkey.com/news/market-movers/261853359-market-movers-ups-20260504]. The 05 November 2025 10-Q contained no incremental environmental liability disclosure in the excerpt reviewed [source: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1090727/000162828025049661/ups-20250930.htm].

Facility-level (MDBUR, Registry 110019881840): ECHO records zero formal enforcement actions, zero informal actions, and zero quarters in noncompliance during the 24-month window ending 04 May 2026. The $2,120,000 penalty_total_24mo field is an exporter-derived allocation from the five-year cumulative penalty total — not a discrete 2024–2026 assessment [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip].

Parent settlement — 19 October 2022, RCRA, nationwide: EPA announced a consent agreement with United Parcel Service, Inc. resolving alleged hazardous waste violations at 1,160 facilities across 45 states and Puerto Rico. Terms included corrective measures and corporate implementation of environmental policies to prevent future noncompliance. EPA's press release did not itemize Burtonsville separately, but the facility falls within the class covered by the agreement's general scope [source: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/ups-settles-epa-correct-alleged-hazardous-waste-violations-nationwide].

Enterprise aggregate (slug united-parcel-service-inc-ups): 8 violations and $10,640,000 in allocated 24-month penalties across 11 facilities tracked under the primary UPS corporate identifier [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. Two additional ECHO corporate slugs — UNITED PARCEL SERVICES (10 facilities, 6 violations, $6.42 million) and UNITED PARCEL SVC (16 facilities, 6 violations, $5.76 million) — reflect naming-variant fragmentation in the exporter. Analysts should read those figures as additive exposure rather than duplicative counts [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip].

Permitting: The Burtonsville facility carries zero active permits and a latest permit action of 10 March 2017 in ECHO. That status is consistent with a conditionally-exempt or small-quantity hazardous waste generator classification, where episodic manifesting rather than continuous permitted discharge governs compliance [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip].

UPS Burtonsville (MDBUR), Montgomery County, Maryland — Registry ID 110019881840: the single facility in this report's scope. ECHO shows no 24-month violations, no active permits, an EJ index average of 0.0, and an allocated penalty share of $2.12 million tied to the 2022 nationwide RCRA settlement. The latest permit date on record is 10 March 2017 [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. Montgomery County's Burtonsville area contains legacy Superfund-inventoried parcels, though none are attributed to UPS operations [source: https://www.homefacts.com/environmentalhazards/superfunds/Maryland/Montgomery-County/Burtonsville.html].

Because the input scope is a single-facility slug, comparative per-site ranking within the UPS network draws from corporate-level ECHO aggregates rather than individual site rows. Under the primary UPS corporate slug, 11 facilities collectively account for 8 violations and $10.64 million in 24-month allocated penalties — implying a per-facility mean of roughly $967,000. That mean places the $2.12 million Burtonsville allocation above the corporate average but below the settlement's largest per-site shares [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. For Maryland state context, Perdue AgriBusiness's Zion Church Road complex in Salisbury leads the state's violating-facility ranking, well above any UPS node [source: https://pollutionscan.com/state/MD]. A 1992 Maryland Court of Special Appeals decision involving UPS and the People's Counsel for Baltimore County addressed land-use and zoning rather than environmental compliance and does not bear on current RCRA posture [source: https://law.justia.com/cases/maryland/court-of-special-appeals/1992/315-september-term-1991-0.html]. No NGO complaints or Maryland Department of the Environment actions surfaced in the reviewed news and SERP sets. No active CWA NPDES or CAA Title V permit appears in ECHO for this site [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip].

ECHO's top_pollutants field for Burtonsville returns an empty array. That result is consistent with the facility's lack of active air or water permits and its classification as a package-handling hub rather than a fixed-source emitter [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. The enforcement signature for UPS's hub-and-spoke network, as established by the 2022 EPA settlement, centers on hazardous waste handling under RCRA Subtitle C — specifically the management of damaged shipments, spilled consumer products, lithium batteries, and small-quantity generator accumulation practices [source: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/ups-settles-epa-correct-alleged-hazardous-waste-violations-nationwide].

Three categories most likely govern community exposure if noncompliance arose at a facility of Burtonsville's type. First, ignitable and corrosive damaged-package residuals — RCRA D001 and D002 characteristic wastes — whose primary pathway runs through worker exposure and stormwater infiltration. Second, lithium-ion battery thermal events from damaged e-commerce shipments, for which EPA has issued generator guidance; these create localized air-emission and fire-runoff risk that no stationary permit currently captures. Third, diesel particulate matter from ground-fleet idling, a Clean Air Act mobile-source concern rather than a stationary-source permit item [source: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/ups-settles-epa-correct-alleged-hazardous-waste-violations-nationwide].

EJ implications at Burtonsville: ECHO reports an EJ index average of 0.0, reflecting dataset coverage rather than an affirmative low-burden finding [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. Montgomery County's broader environmental inventory includes historical hazardous-waste corrective-action sites in the region, and that legacy shapes baseline cumulative exposure regardless of UPS operations [source: https://19january2021snapshot.epa.gov/sites/static/files/2015-09/documents/universityofmaryland_sb.pdf].

The NAICS 492110 peer set surfaced in ECHO is dominated by naming-variant slugs of UPS itself rather than independent competitors, reflecting the exporter's entity-resolution limits in the couriers and local delivery sector. Aggregated across the three UPS slugs, the parent carries 20 violations and $22.82 million in allocated 24-month penalties across 37 facilities. Within that envelope, the single MDBUR facility's $2.12 million allocation and zero-violation record sit at the low-incident end of the distribution [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. The 2022 nationwide RCRA settlement remains the single largest driver of the peer-group penalty totals [source: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/ups-settles-epa-correct-alleged-hazardous-waste-violations-nationwide].

The UPS 2025 Form 10-K, filed 17 February 2026, frames forward-looking environmental and operational risk through standard cautionary language and directs investors to the Investor Relations website for material updates. The filing emphasizes network transformation, the December 2025 USPS final-mile agreement covering Ground Saver and Mail Innovations volumes starting in 2026, and the company's strategic shift toward healthcare logistics following the acquisitions of Frigo-Trans and Andlauer Healthcare Group. That healthcare segment generated more than $11 billion in 2025 revenue. It also introduces cold-chain, refrigerant, and pharmaceutical hazardous-waste handling considerations that expand the compliance profile beyond the package-hub RCRA footprint that defined the 2022 settlement. Item 7 MD&A references collective bargaining agreements and critical accounting estimates, but the reviewed excerpt did not contain itemized environmental contingency reserves [source: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1090727/000162828026008432/ups-20251231.htm].