Company: SOJE
Filing Date: 2025-07-31
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0000092122-25-000076
Chunk: 151

Company: SOUTHERN CO
Filing Date: 2025-07-31
Form: 10-Q
Item: Item 1
Chunk 151
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    Table of Contents                                Index to Financial StatementsMANAGEMENT'S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITIONAND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS (Continued)

standards finalized in the 2024 ELG Rule, including the new technology-based ELGs for leachate. On May 1, 2025, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit granted the EPA's motion requesting an additional 60-day abeyance of the 2024 ELG Rule litigation. On July 11, 2025, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit granted the EPA's request to continue to hold the 2024 ELG Rule litigation in abeyance for another 30 days. The ultimate impact of the 2024 ELG Rule and associated legal matters cannot be determined at this time; however, it may result in significant compliance costs.

Coal Combustion Residuals

On March 12, 2025, the EPA announced its intent to undertake several regulatory actions related to the CCR Rule, including reviewing the 2024 Legacy Rule and evaluating whether to grant short- and long-term relief, such as extending compliance deadlines. On June 13, 2025, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit granted the EPA's motion requesting an additional 60-day abeyance of the litigation over the 2024 Legacy Rule.

On January 16, 2025, the EPA simultaneously published a direct final rule and companion proposed rule that included identical revisions to certain definitions in the 2024 Legacy Rule. On March 20, 2025, the EPA published a notice withdrawing its direct final rule and stating the EPA's intent to respond to comments received on the companion proposed rule. On July 22, 2025, the EPA published a direct final rule and companion proposed rule extending certain deadlines for compliance for owners and operators of CCR management units. The ultimate impact of any final rule and associated legal matters cannot be determined at this time; however, it may result in significant compliance costs.

Based on compliance requirements for closure and monitoring of CCR units pursuant to state and federal CCR rules, the traditional electric operating companies have periodically updated, and expect to continue periodically updating, their related cost estimates and ARO liabilities for each CCR unit as additional information related to compliance monitoring, closure methodologies and strategies, schedules, and/or costs becomes available. Some of these updates have been, and future updates may be, material