On October 17, 2022, the Environmental Appeals Board ratified a Consent Agreement ( CA ) between the Environmental Protection Agency (the EPA ) and United Parcel Services, Inc. ( UPS ). The agreement followed a year-long negotiation between EPA and UPS, led by Region 6, and supported by EPA HQs. The CA resolves violations of hazardous waste regulations at 1,160 facilities across forty-five (45) states and the territory of Puerto Rico. The model for the negotiation and settlement mirrored the R6 settlement for similar claims alleged by R6 in a Consent Agreement and Final Order, which was filed in 2021. Respondent's facilities generate hazardous waste regulated under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act ( RCRA ) when a package containing certain hazardous materials is damaged, as well as during day-to-day operations such as maintenance. EPA expanded the R6 investigation and through data mining (using the e-Manifest system and other reporting databases) EPA identified many UPS facilities that were generating and managing hazardous waste in all three generator categories without providing all the required information about these facilities to EPA and/or the respective states. From the analysis of the information gathered from the data mining sources, EPA determined that Respondent generated, accumulated, and offered for transport, treatment, and/or disposal from its facilities certain hazardous waste streams, including ignitable, corrosive, and reactive substances, includi