UNITED PARCEL SERVICE - CALAIS (MECLA)

United Parcel Service — Calais (MECLA) is a single-facility node in UPS's parcel-courier network, located in Baileyville, Maine and registered to EPA Facility Registry ID 110071248289 [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. The EPA ECHO snapshot dated 2026-05-05 records zero quarters with reported noncompliance over the trailing 24 months. The derived 24-month penalty allocation — total_5yr × (24/60), per the methodology documented in the data export — totals $2,120,000 for this location [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. No active EPA-tracked permits appear in the snapshot. The EJ index average of 0.0 reflects the absence of multi-permit air or water authorizations common at parcel-sortation sites, not an absence of operations.

Corporate scale sets the frame. UPS's 2025 Form 10-K reported $88.7 billion in revenue and 5.2 billion packages shipped during the year [source: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1090727/000162828026008432/ups-20251231.htm]. Against that backdrop, the Calais node is a minor point in a vast domestic network. The two largest UPS legal-entity slugs within NAICS 492110 — UNITED PARCEL SERVICE INC (UPS) and UNITED PARCEL SERVICES — carry 24-month violation counts of 8 and 6 and derived penalty totals of $10.64 million and $6.42 million respectively [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. That distribution confirms enforcement exposure within the parent's U.S. footprint is concentrated at higher-throughput hubs. Calais is not among them. The regulatory baseline governing all UPS courier locations, including this Maine site, is a 2022 EPA nationwide RCRA settlement covering more than 1,100 facilities across 45 states and Puerto Rico — the agreement against which the Calais facility is currently measured [source: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/ups-settles-epa-correct-alleged-hazardous-waste-violations-nationwide].

Reading the Calais (MECLA) compliance record without its parent-company context produces an incomplete picture. On June 16, 2021, EPA Region 6 announced a settlement with United Parcel Service, Inc. and TForce Freight, Inc. requiring corrective action across 183 locations in Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Texas [source: https://www.epa.gov/enforcement/united-parcel-service-inc-ups-settlement]. That settlement carried a $3.8 million civil penalty and a 24-month compliance schedule focused on hazardous-waste generator obligations. It also established a replicable program structure — enhanced internal audits, third-party verification, revised waste-handling procedures — that EPA subsequently scaled into a nationwide framework.

The national expansion came on October 19, 2022. EPA announced a settlement with UPS resolving alleged hazardous-waste violations at more than 1,100 facilities across 45 states and Puerto Rico [source: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/ups-settles-epa-correct-alleged-hazardous-waste-violations-nationwide]. Same-day press coverage confirmed the geographic breadth and the consent-agreement structure, including company commitments to implement environmental policies designed to prevent recurrence [source: https://preprod.sandiegouniontribune.com/2022/10/19/epa-ups-to-pay-fine-correct-hazardous-waste-violations/]. The Calais facility, classified under NAICS 492110 (couriers), sits within the categorical scope of that 2022 agreement. The ECHO export, however, flags zero site-specific quarters of noncompliance for the Maine location during the 24-month review period [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip].

From 2024 through May 5, 2026, the ECHO snapshot records zero quarters of reported noncompliance attributable to FRS ID 110071248289 [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. The $2,120,000 figure is a derived 24-month allocation of the 5-year penalty total — not a discrete fine levied against the Calais site. Zero active EPA-tracked permits appear in the export, consistent with a parcel-sortation operation whose regulated activities run primarily through universal-waste handling, small-quantity hazardous-waste generation, and stormwater discharge under state-issued general permits rather than facility-specific federal authorizations. Separately, the U.S. General Services Administration issued a Finding of No Significant Impact on September 9, 2025 for the adjacent Calais Ferry Point Land Port of Entry expansion, confirming active federal NEPA review activity in the immediate corridor — but the UPS facility is not named as a covered action in that document [source: https://www.gsa.gov/system/files/Calais%20Ferry%20Point%20FONSI_2025.09.09.pdf].

EPA ECHO records no facility-specific enforcement actions naming FRS ID 110071248289 within the trailing 24 months ending May 5, 2026 [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. The $2,120,000 penalty value reported in the ECHO summary is a derived figure — total_5yr × (24/60), per the disclosed derivation — and not a discrete fine, judgment, or consent decree levied against the Calais site.

Two parent-level enforcement events define the facility's RCRA compliance posture during the review period. The first is the June 16, 2021 Region 6 consent agreement with United Parcel Service, Inc. and TForce Freight, Inc., which required compliance corrections at 183 facilities across Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Texas and imposed a $3.8 million civil penalty on a 24-month compliance schedule tied to hazardous-waste generator obligations [source: https://www.epa.gov/enforcement/united-parcel-service-inc-ups-settlement]. The second is the October 19, 2022 nationwide RCRA settlement, which extended corrective scope to more than 1,100 UPS facilities across 45 states and Puerto Rico [source: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/ups-settles-epa-correct-alleged-hazardous-waste-violations-nationwide]. Press reporting confirmed the 2022 consent agreement required UPS to implement environmental policies designed to prevent recurrence [source: https://preprod.sandiegouniontribune.com/2022/10/19/epa-ups-to-pay-fine-correct-hazardous-waste-violations/].

Neither published settlement document names the Calais (MECLA) site among the listed facilities. The categorical scope of both agreements — RCRA hazardous-waste handling at parcel-sortation and freight-handling locations — is operationally applicable to every UPS courier facility classified under NAICS 492110, and the Calais site is no exception.

ECHO contains no Clean Water Act NPDES enforcement entries, no Clean Air Act Title V enforcement entries, and no RCRA formal enforcement entries directly attributable to FRS 110071248289 in the 24-month window [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. The facility's active permit count is zero in the snapshot. The latest permit date field is empty, consistent with operations conducted under state-issued general authorizations rather than facility-specific federal permits.

United Parcel Service — Calais (MECLA), Baileyville, ME (FRS 110071248289): The single facility associated with this entity carries an EJ index average of 0.0 in the ECHO snapshot and zero quarters of reported noncompliance over the 24-month review window [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. The site sits adjacent to the Calais Ferry Point Land Port of Entry, for which GSA issued a Finding of No Significant Impact on September 9, 2025 covering expansion and modernization of the federal border facility [source: https://www.gsa.gov/system/files/Calais%20Ferry%20Point%20FONSI_2025.09.09.pdf].

Two UPS authorized shipping provider locations operating in Calais — CALAIS ACE HOME CENTER at 295 North St and JOHNSON TRUE VALUE at 188 North St — function as customer drop-off points and are not separately permitted EPA facilities [source: https://locations.ups.com/us/en/me/calais/]. They appear here only to clarify that the Calais (MECLA) FRS record refers to the corporate operations entity, not to retail counters.

Within the broader UPS U.S. footprint captured under NAICS 492110, the largest concentration of 24-month derived penalty exposure sits with UNITED PARCEL SERVICE INC (UPS) at 11 facilities, 8 violations, and $10.64 million in derived penalties [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. UNITED PARCEL SERVICES, the second-largest legal-entity slug, carries 10 facilities, 6 violations, and $6.42 million in derived penalties [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. UNITED PARCEL SVC, classified under NAICS 49211, carries 16 facilities, 6 violations, and $5.76 million in derived penalties [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. The Calais entity sits at the low end of this range: one facility, zero recorded violations, $2.12 million in derived 24-month allocation.

EPA ECHO returns no top_pollutants entries for FRS 110071248289 in the current snapshot [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. Two structural conditions explain the absence: the facility holds no active EPA-tracked permits in the export, and parcel-sortation sites under NAICS 492110 are not categorically subject to Toxics Release Inventory reporting unless they exceed RCRA generator thresholds or hold facility-specific air or water authorizations. Where reportable releases appear at UPS sites, they typically involve the waste categories named in the 2022 nationwide RCRA settlement — used aerosols, lithium and lithium-ion batteries, ignitable liquids, and damaged-in-transit shipper materials [source: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/ups-settles-epa-correct-alleged-hazardous-waste-violations-nationwide].

The 2021 Region 6 settlement language identifies hazardous-waste generator-status determinations and storage-area management as the central regulatory programs at issue at parcel facilities [source: https://www.epa.gov/enforcement/united-parcel-service-inc-ups-settlement]. Exposure pathways for unmanaged universal waste at courier facilities include occupational dermal and inhalation contact during sortation handling, secondary contamination of stormwater conveyances when staging areas lack cover, and downstream landfill-leachate impacts when generator-status determinations are misclassified.

UPS's 2025 Statement on Climate Change identifies greenhouse gas emissions as the principal environmental pollutant category the company addresses at the corporate level, framing GHG management as both a compliance matter and an energy-efficiency priority [source: https://about.ups.com/content/dam/upsstories/images/our-impact/reporting/2025-ups-climate-change-statement.pdf]. The 2024 GRI Report, covering January 1 through December 31, 2024, is the most recent corporate-level disclosure of environmental performance metrics [source: https://about.ups.com/content/dam/upsstories/images/our-impact/reporting/2024-UPS-GRI-Report.pdf]. Neither corporate document supplies pollutant-specific data for the Calais facility.

Within NAICS 492110, the Calais (MECLA) entity — one facility, zero violations, $2.12 million in derived 24-month penalty allocation — sits below the three largest UPS-related legal-entity slugs on every available EPA ECHO metric [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. UNITED PARCEL SERVICE INC (UPS), the largest peer slug, carries 11 facilities, 8 violations, and $10.64 million in derived 24-month penalties. UNITED PARCEL SERVICES follows at 10 facilities, 6 violations, and $6.42 million. UNITED PARCEL SVC rounds out the peer set at 16 facilities, 6 violations, and $5.76 million [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. EJ index averages across all three peer slugs and the Calais entity are 0.0 — a figure that reflects the courier-sortation site profile as exported from ECHO, not an independent demographic determination.

UPS's 2025 Form 10-K, filed February 17, 2026, directs investors to monitor the company's Investor Relations website at www.investors.ups.com for material disclosures and notes that the company does not undertake any obligation to update forward-looking statements to reflect events, circumstances, changes in expectations, or the occurrence of unanticipated events after the date of those statements, except as required by law [source: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1090727/000162828026008432/ups-20251231.htm]. Item 1 confirms 2025 revenue of $88.7 billion on 5.2 billion packages. It also identifies the December 2025 USPS final-mile agreement and the 2025 acquisitions of Frigo-Trans and Andlauer Healthcare Group as material strategic developments that will shape forward operations and, by extension, the regulated facility footprint [source: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1090727/000162828026008432/ups-20251231.htm]. The 10-Q filed November 5, 2025 contains no environmental disclosure content in the supplied excerpt [source: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1090727/000162828025049661/ups-20250930.htm].