UNITED PARCEL SERVICE - BURTONSVILLE REMOTE SHOP

United Parcel Service's Burtonsville Remote Shop (EPA Registry ID 110009686134) is a single-facility node within UPS's U.S. ground network, classified under NAICS 492110 (Couriers and Express Delivery). EPA ECHO records as of May 4, 2026 show zero formal violations logged against this specific location over the trailing 24 months, zero active permits, and a latest permit date of March 10, 2017 [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. That permit date is nearly a decade old. The derived penalty exposure figure of $2.12 million attributed to this facility in the ECHO exporter is a pro-rated allocation — 24 of 60 months of a five-year rolling total — and reflects enterprise-level settlement activity rather than a site-specific fine. Environmental Justice index data are reported as 0.0, consistent with the remote-shop designation as a non-public, non-permitted support location.

The corporate parent, United Parcel Service, Inc. (CIK 0001090727), filed its 2025 Form 10-K on February 17, 2026, reporting $88.7 billion in revenue and 5.2 billion packages delivered [source: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1090727/000162828026008432/ups-20251231.htm]. Those numbers frame the scale against which the Burtonsville site's regulatory footprint — essentially zero — must be read. At the enterprise level, EPA announced an October 19, 2022 consent agreement and final order resolving alleged hazardous-waste violations at 1,160 UPS facilities across 45 states and Puerto Rico [source: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/ups-settles-epa-correct-alleged-hazardous-waste-violations-nationwide], following a June 2021 Region 6 settlement covering 183 facilities in five states for a $3.8 million civil penalty [source: https://www.epa.gov/enforcement/united-parcel-service-inc-ups-settlement]. The Burtonsville location itself does not appear as a named respondent in the published settlement documents, but the ECHO penalty allocation reflects the parent company's enforcement footprint across those two actions.

Direct compliance activity at the Burtonsville Remote Shop is minimal in the public record. ECHO reports no quarters with non-compliance flags and no formal enforcement actions filed against Registry ID 110009686134 during the 24-month window ending May 2026 [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. The facility holds no active federal permits under CWA, CAA, or RCRA programs. The most recent permit-related entry is dated March 10, 2017 — a gap of more than nine years to the current snapshot date. Remote shops in UPS's network are typically small vehicle-maintenance or staging sites that fall below major-source thresholds and operate under state-level general permits or conditional exemptions rather than facility-specific federal authorizations.

The relevant regulatory narrative for UPS over the past 24 months is dominated by the implementation phase of two earlier hazardous-waste settlements. On June 16, 2021, EPA Region 6 announced a consent agreement with UPS and TForce Freight requiring compliance measures across 183 locations in Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Texas, with a 24-month corrective period and a $3.8 million civil penalty [source: https://www.epa.gov/enforcement/united-parcel-service-inc-ups-settlement]. On October 19, 2022, EPA announced a nationwide follow-on settlement covering 1,160 facilities across 45 states and Puerto Rico, addressing alleged failures to make land-disposal determinations and to properly manage hazardous waste on-site [source: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/ups-settles-epa-correct-alleged-hazardous-waste-violations-nationwide]. Regional coverage of the 2022 settlement confirmed the corrective-action scope and fine structure [source: https://www.wusa9.com/article/tech/science/environment/epa-ups-pay-fine-correct-hazardous-waste-violations/65-bcabb0f7-1daa-4643-b576-e36a2f0e061d].

Throughout 2024 and 2025, compliance obligations from the 2022 national order would have been in the implementation phase, with UPS required to adopt enhanced environmental policies across its U.S. footprint. The 2025 10-K filed February 17, 2026 does not flag new material environmental enforcement proceedings in its business-overview excerpt [source: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1090727/000162828026008432/ups-20251231.htm], and the Q3 2025 10-Q filed November 5, 2025 similarly contains no new environmental-specific disclosure beyond routine legal-proceedings language [source: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1090727/000162828025049661/ups-20250930.htm]. A separate land-use matter — United Parcel Service, Inc. v. People's Counsel for Baltimore County (611 A.2d 993) — sits in the Maryland case-law record and concerns zoning rather than environmental permitting [source: https://case-law.vlex.com/vid/united-parcel-service-inc-891011075]. For the Burtonsville site specifically, no state or federal enforcement entries surface in the available research bundle for the 24-month window.

No facility-specific enforcement actions are logged against the Burtonsville Remote Shop (Registry ID 110009686134) for the 24 months ending May 4, 2026 [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. The $2.12 million penalty figure in the ECHO extract is a derived pro-rata allocation, not a site-level fine. Two parent-company enforcement actions drive that allocation and warrant direct description.

1) October 19, 2022 — EPA nationwide RCRA settlement. EPA and UPS executed a consent agreement and final order resolving alleged hazardous-waste violations at 1,160 facilities across 45 states and Puerto Rico. The cited program was RCRA Subtitle C. Alleged conduct included failure to make land-disposal determinations and improper on-site management of hazardous waste. Remedy: company-wide environmental policy adoption and compliance measures across the full facility footprint; the civil penalty amount was disclosed in the press release [source: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/ups-settles-epa-correct-alleged-hazardous-waste-violations-nationwide] [source: https://www.wusa9.com/article/tech/science/environment/epa-ups-pay-fine-correct-hazardous-waste-violations/65-bcabb0f7-1daa-4643-b576-e36a2f0e061d].

2) June 16, 2021 — EPA Region 6 settlement. UPS and TForce Freight agreed to a consent order covering 183 facilities in Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Texas. Cited program: RCRA. Civil penalty: $3.8 million. Corrective period: 24 months from execution [source: https://www.epa.gov/enforcement/united-parcel-service-inc-ups-settlement]. This matter preceded and directly informed the scope of the 2022 nationwide action.

The Burtonsville facility is not individually named in the published settlement documents available in the research bundle. No CWA NPDES discharge violations, CAA Title V deviations, or RCRA generator-status violations are attached to Registry ID 110009686134 in the ECHO snapshot [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. The 2025 10-K and Q3 2025 10-Q contain no new environmental enforcement disclosures that would supersede the ECHO record [source: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1090727/000162828026008432/ups-20251231.htm] [source: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1090727/000162828025049661/ups-20250930.htm].

The research bundle identifies one facility directly tied to this slug: the UPS Burtonsville Remote Shop (Registry ID 110009686134), located in the Laurel/Burtonsville, Maryland area. ECHO data show zero violations in the 24-month window, zero active permits, and an EJ index average of 0.0, with the last permit-related date recorded as March 10, 2017 [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. The location functions as a UPS drop-box and remote operational node rather than a major stationary source [source: https://www.mystore411.com/store/view/180781/UPS-United-Parcel-Service-Burtons].

Broader UPS facility-level exposure surfaces through peer-slug ECHO records rather than this single-site slug. Three name variants of the same parent company dominate the NAICS 492110 peer array. The UNITED PARCEL SERVICE INC (UPS) peer entry aggregates 11 facilities with 8 violations and a $10.64 million 24-month penalty allocation [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. The UNITED PARCEL SERVICES peer entry covers 10 facilities with 6 violations and $6.42 million [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. The UNITED PARCEL SVC peer entry covers 16 facilities with 6 violations and $5.76 million [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. None of these aggregate records name the Burtonsville shop as a top-violation site.

Regional environmental-justice context in the Maryland corridor surrounding Burtonsville includes documented attention to ethylene-oxide emissions from unrelated industrial operators in Jessup and Hanover, covered in Baltimore Sun reporting on EPA's proposed EtO rules [source: https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/environment/bs-md-jessup-hanover-eto-elite-spice-epa-20230619-shz3fpzmoja6pda3iqlidx2vvy-story.html]. That exposure pathway is not attributed to the UPS facility but characterizes the surrounding industrial air-quality environment. A separate Baltimore County zoning case involving UPS — United Parcel Service, Inc. v. People's Counsel for Baltimore County — is a Maryland Court of Special Appeals land-use matter and does not involve environmental media [source: https://case-law.vlex.com/vid/united-parcel-service-inc-891011075]. No further individually named UPS facilities surface in the research bundle with EJ or violation data specific to the Burtonsville slug.

The ECHO top_pollutants array for Registry ID 110009686134 is empty, consistent with the absence of active permits and the absence of reported Toxic Release Inventory submissions at this location [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. That blank array is itself informative: it confirms the Burtonsville shop generates no reportable releases under TRI thresholds. For the UPS enterprise, the enforcement record points to hazardous-waste management rather than continuous air or water emissions as the principal regulatory surface. EPA's 2022 national settlement specifically cited failures to make land-disposal determinations under RCRA — the regulatory mechanism that controls whether a waste can be placed in a landfill without further treatment [source: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/ups-settles-epa-correct-alleged-hazardous-waste-violations-nationwide].

The typical hazardous-waste streams generated at courier vehicle-maintenance and remote-shop operations include used oil, spent solvents (including chlorinated and non-chlorinated parts-washer fluids), lead-acid and lithium battery waste, and universal-waste lamps. These streams carry toxicity concerns primarily via soil and groundwater exposure pathways if containerization, labeling, or land-disposal-restriction determinations are mishandled — the conduct pattern EPA identified across the 1,160-facility settlement [source: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/ups-settles-epa-correct-alleged-hazardous-waste-violations-nationwide]. EJ implications at the national level are distributed across the 45-state settlement footprint rather than concentrated at any one remote shop.

Air-toxics exposure pathways in the Burtonsville area are driven predominantly by third-party industrial and mobile sources rather than by UPS support facilities. The Baltimore Sun's June 2023 coverage of ethylene-oxide emissions from Jessup and Hanover spice-sterilization plants describes the regional hazardous air pollutant context against which EPA has proposed tighter NESHAP standards [source: https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/environment/bs-md-jessup-hanover-eto-elite-spice-epa-20230619-shz3fpzmoja6pda3iqlidx2vvy-story.html]. That pathway is regional ambient air, not a UPS-attributed emission.

The three top peer slugs inside NAICS 492110 are all corporate-name variants of UPS itself, reflecting how ECHO records the same parent under multiple registrant strings rather than a competitive peer set. Across those three aggregated slugs, ECHO attributes 20 violations and approximately $22.8 million in pro-rated 24-month penalty exposure across 37 facilities [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. Against that enterprise-level footprint, the Burtonsville Remote Shop registers zero violations and a $2.12 million derived allocation — a below-average site contribution consistent with its remote-shop function. FedEx and other NAICS 492110 competitors do not appear in the supplied peer array, so a direct rival comparison is not supported by the data provided.

UPS's 2025 10-K Item 1A excerpt, filed February 17, 2026, emphasizes general forward-looking-statement caveats and strategy execution under the "Customer First, People Led, Innovation Driven" framework. Disclosed operational developments include healthcare cold-chain expansion via the Frigo-Trans and Andlauer Healthcare Group acquisitions, RFID rollout across U.S. package cars, and a December 2025 USPS final-mile agreement for Ground Saver and Mail Innovations volumes beginning in 2026 [source: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1090727/000162828026008432/ups-20251231.htm]. None of those initiatives carry environmental-specific risk factor language in the supplied excerpt. The Q3 2025 10-Q filed November 5, 2025 likewise carries no incremental environmental disclosure in the supplied excerpt [source: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1090727/000162828025049661/ups-20250930.htm]. Forward-looking environmental exposure for UPS therefore sits primarily in two places: the ongoing implementation phase of the 2022 RCRA consent order, which governs corrective actions across more than a thousand facilities, and the cost trajectory of the stated decarbonization targets — neither of which surfaces as new disclosed litigation in the current SEC filings.