UNITED PARCEL SERVICE - OMAHA GATEWAY

The UPS Omaha Gateway facility (EPA Registry ID 110006590493) is a single-location entry within UPS's U.S. ground network, classified under NAICS 492110 (Couriers and Express Delivery Services). EPA ECHO data records zero formal quarterly noncompliance findings for the Omaha Gateway over the 24 months ending May 2026. The site carries a derived penalty allocation of $2.12 million — a figure the ECHO exporter produces by prorating 5-year corporate totals across a 24-month window, not by attributing a discrete site-level enforcement order to this address [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. No active EPA-issued media permits appear in the ECHO export as of the May 9, 2026 snapshot [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip].

The parent-level enforcement record is materially larger. EPA Region 6 announced a RCRA hazardous-waste settlement on June 16, 2021. It covered 183 UPS and TForce Freight facilities in Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Texas, with a $3.8 million civil penalty attached [source: https://www.epa.gov/enforcement/united-parcel-service-inc-ups-settlement]. Sixteen months later, EPA's October 19, 2022 nationwide consent agreement extended corrective requirements to 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's 10-K, filed February 17, 2026 for fiscal year 2025, reports $88.7 billion in total revenue and an average of 20.8 million packages per day [source: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1090727/000162828026008432/ups-20251231.htm]. The May 6, 2026 10-Q is shorter on specifics. It discloses immaterial environmental-remediation contingencies in Other current liabilities, with insurance recoveries booked as receivables against an unspecified incident [source: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1090727/000162828026031154/ups-20260331.htm]. A shareholder resolution filed for the May 7, 2026 annual meeting requests a third-party evaluation of community impacts tied to environmental injustice across UPS operations [source: https://collaborate.unpri.org/group/36786/stream].

The Omaha Gateway facility (Registry ID 110006590493) shows zero quarters of noncompliance across the eight-quarter window ending Q1 2026. The $2.12 million penalty figure is a formula output. The ECHO exporter applies a 24-of-60-month proration to 5-year corporate totals, producing an allocation rather than a site-specific enforcement finding [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. No active Clean Water Act NPDES, Clean Air Act Title V, or RCRA Subtitle C permits appear in the ECHO export for this location as of May 9, 2026, consistent with the site's function as a courier hub rather than a permitted industrial point source [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. The EJ Index average for the location is reported as 0.0, indicating either an unscored entry or pending EJScreen integration in the ECHO exporter dataset [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip].

Corporate-level enforcement shapes the broader compliance timeline. On October 19, 2022, EPA announced a consent agreement and final order with UPS resolving alleged RCRA violations at 1,160 facilities in 45 states and Puerto Rico. Specific allegations included failure to make land disposal restriction determinations and improper on-site management of hazardous waste under 40 CFR Part 262 [source: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/ups-settles-epa-correct-alleged-hazardous-waste-violations-nationwide]. That settlement followed the June 16, 2021 EPA Region 6 action, which required UPS and TForce Freight to correct hazardous-waste violations at 183 facilities across five states, with a $3.8 million civil penalty and a 24-month compliance schedule [source: https://www.epa.gov/enforcement/united-parcel-service-inc-ups-settlement]. The May 6, 2026 10-Q references ongoing claims and litigation tied to an environmental incident, with insurance recoveries recorded against Other current liabilities [source: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1090727/000162828026031154/ups-20260331.htm].

At the local level, the Omaha logistics corridor carries documented cumulative-burden history. A 2024 University of Nebraska-Lincoln undergraduate thesis examined pollution exposure in marginalized Omaha communities and identified the rail and logistics infrastructure corridor as an area of disproportionate cumulative burden [source: http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/envstudtheses/378]. EPA Region 7 has documented historic remediation at the Union Pacific Omaha Shops, a cleanup action recorded in archived agency fact sheets [source: https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20080228053910/www.epa.gov/Region7/factsheets/2000/fs_upr_omaha_shops.pdf]. A 2011 federal consent decree between the United States, the State of Nebraska, and Union Pacific Railroad Company further addressed environmental claims at Omaha-area rail facilities [source: https://www.epa.gov/sites/default/files/2013-08/documents/up-omaha-cd.pdf]. UPS Omaha Gateway is not a party to those actions. The site operates within a geographic corridor that carries documented legacy contamination from non-UPS operators.

Action 1 — RCRA / Hazardous Waste, Region 6 settlement, June 16, 2021. EPA Region 6 entered a Consent Agreement and Final Order with United Parcel Service, Inc. and TForce Freight, Inc., requiring corrective programs at 183 facilities in Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Texas. Civil penalty: $3.8 million. Compliance window: 24 months. Program: RCRA Subtitle C. EPA characterized the resolution as cooperative, with an enhanced compliance program serving as the primary corrective instrument [source: https://www.epa.gov/enforcement/united-parcel-service-inc-ups-settlement].

Action 2 — RCRA / Hazardous Waste, nationwide consent agreement, October 19, 2022. EPA announced a settlement with UPS resolving alleged hazardous-waste violations at 1,160 facilities across 45 states and Puerto Rico. Alleged violations included failure to make land disposal restriction determinations and improper on-site management of hazardous waste under 40 CFR Part 262. Program: RCRA Subtitle C. The consent agreement and final 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].

Action 3 — Omaha Gateway, ECHO exporter record. EPA ECHO assigns facility 110006590493 a derived 24-month penalty allocation of $2,120,000. The formula is: penalty_24mo = total_5yr × (24/60). Zero discrete quarters of noncompliance appear against this facility ID in the trailing 8-quarter window ending Q1 2026. No CWA, CAA, or RCRA enforcement order tied uniquely to this address is present in the May 9, 2026 ECHO snapshot [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip].

Action 4 — SEC-disclosed environmental incident, ongoing as of March 31, 2026. The May 6, 2026 10-Q records immaterial contingencies for environmental remediation and other claims in Other current liabilities, with corresponding insurance recoveries in Accounts receivable. Additional claims, litigation, and other proceedings remain pending. Future charges and recoveries are described as not reasonably estimable [source: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1090727/000162828026031154/ups-20260331.htm].

United Parcel Service — Omaha Gateway (Omaha, NE; EPA Registry ID 110006590493). The ECHO exporter snapshot records zero quarters of noncompliance over the 24-month window ending May 9, 2026. The derived penalty allocation of $2.12 million reflects the 5-year proration formula, not a site-specific enforcement order. No active permits appear in the ECHO export. The EJ Index average is 0.0, indicating either an unscored entry or non-integration with EJScreen indices for this facility class [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip].

United Parcel Service Inc. (UPS) parent enforcement entity, 11 facilities. The peer benchmark row records 8 violations and a 24-month derived penalty total of $10.64 million across 11 NAICS 492110 facilities. No active permits attach to those records. EJ Index average: 0.0 [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip].

United Parcel Services (alternate corporate slug). 10 facilities, 6 violations over 24 months, $6.42 million in derived penalties, no active permits [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip].

United Parcel Svc (alternate corporate slug, NAICS 49211). 16 facilities, 6 violations, $5.76 million in 24-month penalties, no active permits [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip].

Union Pacific Omaha Shops adjacency. The Omaha Gateway operates within a logistics corridor that includes the Union Pacific Omaha Shops site. That site is the subject of Civil Action 8:11-cv-00195-LSC-FG3, a 2011 federal consent decree filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Nebraska between the United States, the State of Nebraska, and Union Pacific Railroad Company [source: https://www.epa.gov/sites/default/files/2013-08/documents/up-omaha-cd.pdf]. EPA Region 7 fact sheets document historic remediation at the Union Pacific Omaha facility [source: https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20080228053910/www.epa.gov/Region7/factsheets/2000/fs_upr_omaha_shops.pdf]. UPS Omaha Gateway is not a party to either action. The adjacency is geographic only.

The ECHO exporter snapshot for Omaha Gateway returns an empty top_pollutants array, meaning no Toxic Release Inventory or DMR-reported pollutant tonnages attach to this facility record as of May 9, 2026 [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. For NAICS 492110 courier hubs, the dominant EPA enforcement pathway has run through RCRA Subtitle C hazardous-waste handling. Air and water permit-limit exceedances have not been the primary enforcement vector. Both the June 2021 Region 6 settlement and the October 2022 nationwide settlement centered on land disposal restriction determinations and on-site hazardous-waste management requirements under 40 CFR Part 262 [source: https://www.epa.gov/enforcement/united-parcel-service-inc-ups-settlement] [source: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/ups-settles-epa-correct-alleged-hazardous-waste-violations-nationwide].

A second exposure pathway relevant to courier ground hubs is diesel particulate matter from idling tractor and package-car operations. This emission source does not appear in the ECHO exporter top_pollutants field for this facility, but EJ literature describing the Omaha industrial corridor identifies it as a recognized cumulative-exposure concern [source: http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/envstudtheses/378].

Legacy soil and groundwater contamination from co-located rail and industrial operations represents a third pathway. The 2011 Union Pacific consent decree and EPA Region 7's historic Omaha Shops fact sheets document soil and groundwater remediation within the same geographic corridor, providing baseline cumulative-burden context for the area in which UPS Omaha Gateway operates [source: https://www.epa.gov/sites/default/files/2013-08/documents/up-omaha-cd.pdf] [source: https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20080228053910/www.epa.gov/Region7/factsheets/2000/fs_upr_omaha_shops.pdf].

Within NAICS 492110, all three peer rows in the EPA ECHO exporter dataset resolve to UPS-affiliated corporate slugs, reflecting the parent entity's dominant facility footprint in the courier and express-delivery code rather than independent competitors. The Omaha Gateway single-facility record — zero violations, $2.12 million in derived penalties — sits below the parent corporate slug's 11-facility aggregate of 8 violations and $10.64 million. The Omaha Gateway record does not contribute discrete violation counts to the parent total under the 24-month ECHO window [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. Across all three slugs, no active EPA-issued permits appear and EJ Index averages are reported as 0.0, indicating dataset-level absence rather than scored low exposure.

UPS's Item 1A risk factors in the February 17, 2026 10-K outline the company's Customer First, People Led, Innovation Driven strategy and its Smart Package Smart Facility RFID rollout. The filing flags the 2025 acquisitions of Frigo-Trans and Andlauer Healthcare Group as part of a healthcare cold-chain build-out, with the global healthcare portfolio generating more than $11 billion in 2025 revenue. The December 2025 USPS final-mile agreement for Ground Saver and Mail Innovations volumes is identified as a 2026 cost-efficiency initiative [source: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1090727/000162828026008432/ups-20251231.htm]. The May 6, 2026 10-Q adds two forward-looking exposure items: the February 20, 2026 U.S. Supreme Court ruling invalidating certain IEEPA tariffs, and ongoing environmental claims for which future charges are not reasonably estimable [source: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1090727/000162828026031154/ups-20260331.htm].