Company: EXEEZ
Filing Date: 2025-02-26
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0000895126-25-000021
Chunk: 171

Company: EXPAND ENERGY Corp
Filing Date: 2025-02-26
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1
Chunk 171
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 whether any such proposals may become effective or the effect that such proposals may have on us. We actively monitor regulatory developments applicable to our industry in order to anticipate, design and implement required compliance activities and systems. The following is a summary of the existing laws, rules and regulations to which our operations are subject.

Exploration and Production, Environmental, Health and Safety and Occupational Laws and Regulations

Our operations are subject to federal, tribal, state, and local laws and regulations. These laws and regulations relate to matters that include, but are not limited to, the following:

•reporting of workplace injuries and illnesses;

•industrial hygiene monitoring;

•worker protection and workplace safety;

•approval or permits to drill and to conduct operations;

•provision of financial assurances (such as bonds) covering drilling and well operations;

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•calculation and disbursement of royalty payments and production taxes;

•seismic operations/data;

•location, drilling, cementing and casing of wells;

•well design and construction of pad and equipment;

•construction and operations activities in sensitive areas, such as wetlands, coastal regions or areas that contain endangered or threatened species, their habitats, or sites of cultural significance;

•method of well completion and hydraulic fracturing;

•water withdrawal;

•well production and operations, including processing and gathering systems;

•emergency response, contingency plans and spill prevention plans;

•emissions and discharges permitting;

•climate change;

•use, transportation, storage and disposal of fluids and materials incidental to natural gas and oil operations;

•surface usage, maintenance, monitoring and the restoration of properties associated with well pads, pipelines, impoundments and access roads;

•plugging and abandoning of wells; and

•transportation of production.

In November 2021, the Environmental Protection Agency (the “EPA”) proposed new regulations to establish comprehensive standards of performance and emission guidelines for methane and volatile organic compound emissions from new, modified, reconstructed and existing facilities in the oil and gas sector. The EPA issued a supplemental proposed rule in November 2022 to update, strengthen and expand its November 2021 proposed rule. The proposed rules sought to make the existing regulations in Subpart OOOOa more stringent and create a Subpart OOOOb to expand reduction requirements for new, modified, and reconstructed oil and gas sources, including standards focusing on certain source types that have never been regulated under the Clean Air Act (“CAA”) (including intermittent vent pneumatic controllers, associated gas, and liquids unloading facilities). The November 2022