UNITED PARCEL SERVICE - LAMAR CENTER

United Parcel Service maintains one ECHO-registered address in Lamar, Colorado: the UPS Customer Center at 205 Speculator Avenue, registry ID 110005997243 [source: https://locations.ups.com/us/en/co/lamar/]. EPA ECHO data as of May 8, 2026 records zero formal violations against that facility in the trailing 24 months. The $2.12 million penalty figure is an allocation, not a fine levied against Lamar. EPA's ECHO Exporter methodology maps a proportional share of enterprise consent agreement penalties to each registered facility ID; the Lamar figure is computed as 24/60 of the five-year enterprise total [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. The underlying liability traces to two Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) consent agreements, the more expansive of which — signed October 19, 2022 — covered 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].

UPS closed 2025 with $88.7 billion in revenue and 20.8 million average daily packages delivered across 200-plus countries [source: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1090727/000162828026008432/ups-20251231.htm]. The May 6, 2026 10-Q treats environmental remediation contingencies as immaterial on the consolidated balance sheet, with offsetting insurance recoveries posted to accounts receivable [source: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1090727/000162828026031154/ups-20260331.htm]. Among NAICS 484 freight peers, UPS's 24-month penalty exposure is materially lower than TForce Freight ($16.69 million, 77 violations) and ABF Freight System ($11.77 million, 10 violations) [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. A shareholder proposal filed for the July 5, 2026 annual meeting requests disclosure of community impacts related to environmental injustice [source: https://collaborate.unpri.org/group/36786/stream].

The Lamar Customer Center sits within a corporate compliance history shaped by two sequential RCRA settlements, each resolved by consent before the current 24-month review window began. Zero formal violations appear in ECHO's quarterly noncompliance counter for the period — a result that reflects the pre-window timing of both actions rather than an absence of prior regulatory activity.

The first action came from EPA Region 6 in Dallas. On June 16, 2021, the agency announced a consent agreement naming both United Parcel Service, Inc. and TForce Freight, Inc. as respondents, covering 183 locations across Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Texas [source: https://www.epa.gov/enforcement/united-parcel-service-inc-ups-settlement]. The settlement required 24 months of corrective action and a $3.8 million civil penalty. EPA cited hazardous-waste handling deficiencies at the covered facilities and required UPS to build enhanced compliance programs at each location. The agency documented that the matter was resolved expeditiously because of respondent cooperation [source: https://www.epa.gov/enforcement/united-parcel-service-inc-ups-settlement].

Sixteen months later, EPA broadened that corrective perimeter considerably. The October 19, 2022 nationwide consent agreement and final order covered 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]. EPA specified two categories of alleged conduct: failure to make land disposal determinations, and improper on-site management of hazardous waste. The order 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]. That settlement is the proximate source of the $2.12 million figure ECHO maps to Lamar under the formula penalty_24mo = total_5yr × (24/60) [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip].

At the facility level, ECHO's quarterly noncompliance counter shows zero quarters of formal noncompliance for facility 110005997243 from mid-2024 through May 2026. The export lists no active EPA-administered permits at the Lamar address [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. The 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2026, filed May 6, 2026, classifies environmental remediation contingencies as immaterial at both March 31, 2026 and December 31, 2025, with corresponding insurance recoveries booked to accounts receivable [source: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1090727/000162828026031154/ups-20260331.htm]. The filing states that additional charges and insurance recoveries are reasonably possible but cannot be reasonably estimated, and management does not expect a material impact on results of operations or liquidity [source: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1090727/000162828026031154/ups-20260331.htm].

Action 1 — Nationwide RCRA consent agreement and final order, announced October 19, 2022. Counterparty: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The order covered 1,160 UPS facilities across 45 states and Puerto Rico under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act. EPA alleged two categories of conduct: failure to make land disposal determinations, and improper on-site management of hazardous waste. The outcome was a consent agreement and final order requiring 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]. EPA did not break out per-facility penalty allocations in the public announcement.

Action 2 — EPA Region 6 RCRA consent agreement, announced June 16, 2021. Counterparty: EPA Region 6, Dallas. Respondents: United Parcel Service, Inc. and TForce Freight, Inc. The settlement addressed 183 locations across Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Texas under RCRA. Civil penalty: $3.8 million. Compliance window: 24 months. Both respondents agreed to corrective programs addressing the identified noncompliance, and EPA noted the matter was resolved expeditiously due to cooperation [source: https://www.epa.gov/enforcement/united-parcel-service-inc-ups-settlement].

Action 3 — TSCA-08-2011-0001, EPA Region 8, Denver, Final Order dated May 12, 2011. The respondent named in the docket is Lamar Light and Power, 100 North Second Street, Lamar, CO 81052 — the municipal utility, not UPS. The matter is a Toxic Substances Control Act consent agreement and final order resolved under 40 C.F.R. § 22.18 [source: https://yosemite.epa.gov/oa/rhc/epaadmin.nsf/CAFOs%20and%20ESAs/02A7EC98772AE6398525788F001B7DFA/$File/TSCA0820110001%20CAFO.pdf]. The docket appears in Lamar-area Region 8 records but does not name the UPS Customer Center. No discrete EPA enforcement action against UPS facility 110005997243 appears in the available record.

Lamar-specific 24-month formal violation count per ECHO: 0. Allocated penalty under ECHO derivation: $2,120,000, computed as 24/60 of the five-year enterprise penalty total mapped to facility ID 110005997243 [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. Active EPA permits at the Lamar Customer Center per ECHO: 0; the latest permit date field is empty in the May 8, 2026 export [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip].

UPS Customer Center — Lamar, CO (FRS 110005997243). The facility at 205 Speculator Avenue, Lamar, CO 81052 is UPS's single ECHO-registered address for this query. Ground drop-off closes at 6:30 PM; air closes at 5:30 PM [source: https://locations.ups.com/us/en/co/lamar/]. The May 8, 2026 ECHO export records zero formal violations and zero active EPA-administered permits in the trailing 24 months, with a derived penalty allocation of $2.12 million traced to enterprise-level RCRA settlements [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. The ECHO EJ index average for facility 110005997243 is 0.0; no top pollutants are listed in the export.

Lamar regional context. As of September 24, 2025, Lamar's city government was publicly pitching itself as a Buc-ee's location, entering a debate that also included Palmer Lake — a signal of large-format commercial development interest in the local market, per Denver Post coverage on that date [source: https://www.denverpost.com/2025/09/24/lamar-bucees-palmer-lake-colorado]. The Lamar Light and Power matter — TSCA-08-2011-0001, a separate action that does not name UPS — establishes that EPA Region 8 has docketed Toxic Substances Control Act cases at Lamar addresses previously [source: https://yosemite.epa.gov/oa/rhc/epaadmin.nsf/CAFOs%20and%20ESAs/02A7EC98772AE6398525788F001B7DFA/$File/TSCA0820110001%20CAFO.pdf].

The EPA ECHO bundle for this query returns facility_count = 1 [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. NAICS 484122 comparators — TForce Freight (37 facilities), ABF Freight System (96 facilities), and ABF Freight Systems, Inc. (169 facilities) — each operate larger ECHO-registered footprints than the single Lamar entry under review [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. A top-five ranking by EJ exposure or violation count cannot be constructed from the available data; the four entries above represent the full inventory for this briefing.

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Pollutant 1 — Hazardous waste streams under RCRA Subtitle C. EPA's October 19, 2022 announcement cited two specific violations: failure to make land disposal determinations, and improper on-site management of hazardous waste at UPS facilities nationally [source: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/ups-settles-epa-correct-alleged-hazardous-waste-violations-nationwide]. Land disposal determinations are the regulatory checkpoint establishing whether a waste meets treatment standards before disposal. Skipping that step is the gating violation; it opens exposure pathways to soil and groundwater that downstream treatment requirements are designed to close. The June 2021 Region 6 settlement covered the same statutory program across 183 locations in five states [source: https://www.epa.gov/enforcement/united-parcel-service-inc-ups-settlement].

Pollutant 2 — TSCA-regulated substances. Region 8 docketed TSCA-08-2011-0001 against Lamar Light and Power at 100 North Second Street, Lamar, CO 81052. The matter addressed Toxic Substances Control Act compliance — the federal program governing PCBs, asbestos, lead-based paint, and other listed chemicals [source: https://yosemite.epa.gov/oa/rhc/epaadmin.nsf/CAFOs%20and%20ESAs/02A7EC98772AE6398525788F001B7DFA/$File/TSCA0820110001%20CAFO.pdf]. The respondent is the municipal utility, not UPS. This citation documents the regulatory program active in the geography, not UPS conduct.

Pollutant 3 — ECHO returns no listed top pollutants for facility 110005997243 in the May 8, 2026 export, and the EJ index average is recorded as 0.0 [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. Mobile-source emissions from package-car operations at customer centers are typically captured under state-level air permitting rather than facility-level ECHO records; the Lamar export shows zero active permits [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. Not reported in the available data: criteria-pollutant tonnage, TRI releases, and CAA Title V permitting status for this facility.

Among NAICS 484122 freight-trucking comparators, the Lamar Customer Center posts zero formal violations and a $2.12 million derived penalty allocation — both figures below every benchmark peer [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. TForce Freight, co-respondent alongside UPS in the June 16, 2021 EPA Region 6 RCRA settlement, carries the highest penalty exposure in the set: $16.69 million across 37 facilities with 77 violations [source: https://www.epa.gov/enforcement/united-parcel-service-inc-ups-settlement]. ABF Freight System follows at $11.77 million across 96 facilities with 10 violations; ABF Freight Systems, Inc. registers $6.21 million across 169 facilities with 12 violations [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. Two structural limits apply to this comparison. The peers carry NAICS code 484122; UPS's primary code is 484110. The Lamar single-facility scope is not directly comparable to enterprise-level peer rollups.

The 10-K filed February 17, 2026 carries the standard forward-looking-statement disclaimer: UPS 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 1A as excerpted in the bundle does not contain a discrete environmental-risk paragraph. The Item 7 MD&A index points to Liquidity and Capital Resources, Critical Accounting Estimates, and Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures about Market Risk under Item 7A [source: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1090727/000162828026008432/ups-20251231.htm]. The May 6, 2026 10-Q discloses an open environmental incident under assessment, with insurance coverage in place and immaterial contingencies recorded. Resolution 'could result in additional charges and related insurance recoveries in future periods, the amount of which cannot be reasonably estimated at this time' [source: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1090727/000162828026031154/ups-20260331.htm].