UNITED PARCEL SERVICE - FRANKLIN (NCFRA)

United Parcel Service's Franklin, North Carolina facility (FRS ID 110071261773) sits inside UPS's domestic ground network, classified under NAICS 492110 (general freight trucking). EPA ECHO data as of 2026-05-10 records zero formal violations at the Franklin location over the trailing 24 months. The $2.12 million penalty figure attached to the record is a derived value — generated by prorating five-year national exposure across a 24-month window per the methodology disclosed in the ECHO download manifest — and does not represent a Franklin-assessed penalty [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. The facility holds no active EPA-administered permits in the ECHO export. It reports an environmental justice index average of 0.0, which reflects either an unscored census-block overlay or a non-major source classification under federal program definitions [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. UPS's parent-entity SEC 10-K, filed February 17, 2026, reports 2025 revenue of $88.7 billion and 5.2 billion packages delivered globally [source: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1090727/000162828026008432/ups-20251231.htm].

The compliance picture at Franklin is quiet. The national-level EPA record is not. Across 547 facilities, UPS's parent network carries 190 violations and $528.5 million in derived 24-month penalty exposure [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. EPA's October 2022 nationwide consent agreement — covering 1,160 UPS facilities across 45 states — established the operating compliance framework that governs hazardous waste handling at locations including Franklin [source: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/ups-settles-epa-correct-alleged-hazardous-waste-violations-nationwide]. UPS's 2024 GRI Report and 2025 Sustainability and Community Impact Report frame company-wide environmental performance against carbon-neutrality and renewable-electricity targets [source: https://about.ups.com/content/dam/upsstories/images/our-impact/reporting/2024-UPS-GRI-Report.pdf].

Zero quarters of significant noncompliance. That is the 24-month EPA ECHO record for the Franklin (NCFRA) facility through 2026-05-10. The $2.12 million penalty figure is a derived value — computed by applying a 24/60 proration to five-year national exposure per the methodology disclosed in the ECHO download manifest — and does not represent any penalty assessed against Franklin specifically [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. The facility carries no active permits in the active_permits_count field, no top-pollutant entries, and a 0.0 EJ index average. Those three data points together suggest that Franklin operates either as a non-reporting small-quantity generator or as a location whose emissions inventory is captured at the corporate roll-up level rather than at the individual facility ID [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip].

Corporate-level enforcement history extends further back. The present hazardous-waste compliance posture at UPS package and freight facilities traces to EPA's October 19, 2022 consent agreement and final order, which resolved alleged Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) violations at 1,160 UPS facilities across 45 states and Puerto Rico. Cited violations included failure to make land disposal determinations and improper on-site management of hazardous waste [source: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/ups-settles-epa-correct-alleged-hazardous-waste-violations-nationwide]. That 2022 settlement followed an earlier action: on June 16, 2021, EPA Region 6 entered a consent agreement covering 183 UPS and TForce Freight locations across Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Texas. Civil penalty: $3.8 million. Compliance correction window: 24 months [source: https://www.epa.gov/enforcement/united-parcel-service-inc-ups-settlement]. The Region 6 consent agreement and final order is published on EPA's enforcement portal [source: https://www.epa.gov/enforcement/consent-agreement-and-final-order-ups].

Within the current 24-month window, UPS's May 6, 2026 Form 10-Q adds a more recent disclosure. The filing records immaterial environmental remediation contingencies and corresponding insurance recoveries on the consolidated balance sheet as of March 31, 2026, with UPS stating it continues to assess the impact on its environment and business in connection with an unspecified incident referenced in the filing [source: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1090727/000162828026031154/ups-20260331.htm]. The same 10-Q discloses parallel litigation arising out of that incident, with potential additional charges and offsetting insurance recoveries the company cannot yet estimate [source: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1090727/000162828026031154/ups-20260331.htm]. Franklin is not individually named in any 24-month enforcement record surfaced across the EPA, SEC, or news sources reviewed for this briefing.

The Franklin facility (FRS ID 110071261773) carries zero discrete enforcement actions in the trailing 24-month ECHO export window. The $2.12 million figure attached to the location is an arithmetic derivation — total five-year exposure multiplied by 24/60 — and does not represent a Franklin-specific assessed penalty [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. Enforcement detail at the corporate level, by contrast, is documented in two consent agreements that together define the current hazardous-waste compliance posture at UPS package and freight facilities.

The first action landed June 16, 2021. EPA Region 6 in Dallas announced a settlement requiring UPS and TForce Freight to correct alleged hazardous waste violations across 183 facilities in Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Texas. Civil penalty: $3.8 million. Compliance window: 24 months [source: https://www.epa.gov/enforcement/united-parcel-service-inc-ups-settlement]. The full Consent Agreement and Final Order is published on EPA's enforcement portal [source: https://www.epa.gov/enforcement/consent-agreement-and-final-order-ups].

The second, larger action followed on October 19, 2022. EPA announced a settlement covering 1,160 UPS facilities across 45 states and Puerto Rico. Cited violations under RCRA Subtitle C included failure to make land disposal determinations and improper on-site management of hazardous waste. The agreement required UPS to implement environmental policies designed to prevent future noncompliance [source: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/ups-settles-epa-correct-alleged-hazardous-waste-violations-nationwide].

Within the 24-month look-back, UPS's May 6, 2026 Form 10-Q discloses ongoing environmental remediation contingencies and related insurance recoveries recorded as immaterial as of both March 31, 2026 and December 31, 2025. Related claims and proceedings remain open, with financial outcomes the company deems not reasonably estimable at this time [source: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1090727/000162828026031154/ups-20260331.htm]. No Clean Water Act (CWA) or Clean Air Act (CAA) federal action is recorded against the Franklin facility ID in the ECHO export reviewed [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip].

United Parcel Service — Franklin, NC (FRS ID 110071261773). Franklin is the sole facility associated with this entity in the ECHO export. The record shows zero 24-month violations, zero active permits, zero top pollutants, and a 0.0 EJ index average. The derived 24-month penalty figure of $2.12 million is a prorated allocation, not a Franklin-assessed sum [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip].

Parent corporate aggregate — UNITED PARCEL SERVICE (slug united-parcel-service). The corporate roll-up spans 547 facilities, 190 violations across the 24-month window, and $528.49 million in derived penalty exposure. This aggregation provides the network-wide context against which the Franklin facility sits [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip].

UNITED PARCEL SERVICE INC (UPS) (slug united-parcel-service-inc-ups). This NAICS 492110 peer roll-up reports 11 facilities, 8 violations, and $10.64 million in 24-month derived penalty exposure. EPA treats this as a distinct registry organization, separate from the primary corporate identifier [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip].

UNITED PARCEL SERVICES INC (slug united-parcel-services-inc). This third NAICS 492110 variant in the registry reports 10 facilities, 6 violations, and $6.42 million in 24-month derived penalty exposure [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip].

FRS organizational record — UNITED PARCEL SERVICE INC. EPA's Facility Registry Service maintains parallel facility-level cross-references, including drinking water and air program identifiers tied to UPS-named locations across multiple environmental information systems [source: https://frs-public.epa.gov/ords/frs_public2/fii_query_detail.disp_program_facility?p_registry_id=110010981697].

The ECHO export records no top_pollutants entries for the Franklin facility within the 24-month window. No active TRI or NEI reporting flags appear in the ECHO summary [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. The dominant pollutant category implicated by the corporate enforcement history is hazardous waste under RCRA Subtitle C. The October 2022 nationwide consent agreement specifically cited failure to make land disposal determinations and improper on-site management of hazardous waste at UPS package facilities — a category that captures aerosols, used oil, batteries, ignitable solvents, and damaged-package contents accumulating at sortation and transfer hubs [source: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/ups-settles-epa-correct-alleged-hazardous-waste-violations-nationwide].

Diesel particulate matter and NOx form a second pollutant exposure surface. Both are recurring environmental-justice concerns at parcel-distribution facilities and are specifically referenced in a Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI)-listed shareholder resolution scheduled for the May 7, 2026 UPS annual meeting. That resolution requests UPS conduct due diligence and disclose an evaluation of community impacts related to environmental injustice associated with company operations [source: https://collaborate.unpri.org/group/36786/stream]. The resolution frames diesel and ground-fleet emissions as material to the communities surrounding sortation and ground hubs.

Drinking-water-system interaction at facility level forms a third exposure surface. EPA's FRS facility detail report for a UPS-affiliated registry record documents Safe Drinking Water Act program identifiers among the environmental interests tied to UPS facility operations [source: https://frs-public.epa.gov/ords/frs_public2/fii_query_detail.disp_program_facility?p_registry_id=110010981697]. The Franklin location does not have such program identifiers attached in the ECHO export reviewed [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip].

Within NAICS 492110, the three EPA-registered UPS naming variants aggregate to 568 facilities, 204 violations over 24 months, and approximately $545.55 million in derived penalty exposure. Franklin's record — zero violations, $2.12 million derived figure — places this single facility in the lowest-exposure tier within the parent network's 547-facility roll-up [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. The parent-entity aggregate penalty figure runs approximately 50 times the next-largest UPS variant in the registry, reflecting the concentration of EPA-counted enforcement activity within the primary corporate identifier rather than the smaller registry variants [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip].

UPS's 2025 Form 10-K, filed February 17, 2026, directs investors to its forward-looking-statements caution and the risk factors enumerated in Item 1A. The company does not undertake to update those statements except as required by law and discloses material information through its Investor Relations website [source: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1090727/000162828026008432/ups-20251231.htm]. Item 1 describes UPS as a global package delivery and logistics provider operating across more than 200 countries. A December 2025 final-mile agreement with USPS — covering Ground Saver and Mail Innovations volumes beginning in 2026 — represents a network-configuration change that will shift volume routing across the U.S. ground footprint [source: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1090727/000162828026008432/ups-20251231.htm]. The May 6, 2026 Form 10-Q adds that UPS has recorded immaterial environmental remediation contingencies with corresponding insurance recoveries and is engaged in claims and proceedings whose resolution could result in additional charges and recoveries that cannot presently be estimated [source: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1090727/000162828026031154/ups-20260331.htm].