Company: WBI
Filing Date: 2025-08-04
Form Type: DRS/A
Source: 0000950123-25-006924
Chunk: 217

Company: WaterBridge Infrastructure LLC
Filing Date: 2025-08-04
Form: DRS/A
Chunk 217
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ing essential behavioral patterns, including breeding, feeding or sheltering.”). While it is not yet possible to determine how such actions may impact our and our customers’ businesses, such federal actions may prompt more protective laws and regulations to be advanced at the state and local level.

National Environmental Policy Act

Major federal actions, such as the issuance of permits associated with construction, can require the completion of certain reviews under the National Environmental Policy Act (“NEPA”). NEPA requires federal agencies, including the Corps, to evaluate major agency actions having the potential to significantly impact the environment. The process involves the preparation of either an environmental assessment or environmental impact statement depending on whether the specific circumstances surrounding the proposed federal action will have a significant impact on the human environment. The NEPA process involves public input through comments which can alter the nature of a proposed project either by limiting the scope of the project or requiring resource-specific mitigation. NEPA decisions can be appealed through the court system by process participants. This process may result in delays in the permitting and development of projects, increase the costs of permitting and developing some facilities and could result in certain instances in the abandonment of proposed projects, which could directly and indirectly affect our financial performance and results of our operations.

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Following an Executive Order from President Trump, on February 25, 2025, CEQ published an interim final rule, effective April 11, 2025, removing CEQ’s NEPA implementing regulations. CEQ has directed federal agencies to revise or establish their NEPA implementing procedures to expedite permitting approvals and for consistency with NEPA as amended by the Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023. Future development and production activities and plans on federal lands may require governmental approvals that could be subject to the requirements of NEPA in the future. There has been litigation regarding the environmental review requirements of NEPA. On May 29, 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously decided to limit environmental reviews for major infrastructure projects. In particular, the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision reduces the scope of reviews under NEPA only to the immediate impacts of a proposed project. The impact of this decision or any future litigation regarding NEPA is unknown at this time and, accordingly, there may be uncertainty as to the NEPA requirements applicable to future development and production activities that require NEPA review, which could directly and indirectly affect our financial performance and results of our operations.

Occupational Safety Health Act

We are subject to the requirements of the Occupational Safety and Health Act (“OS