Company: TVC
Filing Date: 2025-11-13
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001376986-25-000056
Chunk: 473

Company: Tennessee Valley Authority
Filing Date: 2025-11-13
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 7
Chunk 473
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 on September 14, 2023.  On February 13, 2024, the plaintiffs filed a motion to complete the administrative record that TVA submitted in support of the EIS for this project, alleging that the administrative record submitted by TVA is incomplete.  The magistrate judge issued an order granting in part and denying in part the plaintiffs' motion to complete the administrative record.  TVA subsequently filed a motion challenging the magistrate judge's ruling, and TVA's motion is pending before the court.  In light of the outstanding issues related to the administrative record, the court suspended the parties' summary judgment deadlines.  TVA cannot predict the outcome of this litigation.Challenge to Certificate for Cumberland Pipeline. On April 29, 2024, the Southern Environmental Law Center, on behalf of the Sierra Club and Appalachian Voices, filed a petition with the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ("D.C. Circuit") challenging the issuance by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission ("FERC") of a certificate of public convenience for the pipeline that will need to be constructed in order for TVA to operate the Cumberland Combined Cycle Plant (the “Cumberland Pipeline”). The petitioners allege that they and their members have been and will be aggrieved by the approval, construction, and operation of the Cumberland Pipeline and are asking the D.C. Circuit to review and set aside FERC’s order approving the pipeline. The D.C. Circuit heard oral arguments on the merits on March 4, 2025, and on September 30, 2025, the D.C. Circuit issued an opinion upholding FERC's decision to issue the certificate of public convenience for the pipeline.  Case Involving Kingston Gas-Fired Plant.  On October 10, 2024, Appalachian Voices, the Center for Biological Diversity, and the Sierra Club filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee alleging that TVA violated NEPA and TVA’s least-cost planning obligations in deciding to build a gas plant at its Kingston facility.  The plaintiffs requested that the court, among other things, enter a declaratory judgment that the Kingston EIS violated NEPA and that TVA's decision to issue the Kingston Record of Decision was arbitrary, capricious, and/or not in accordance with law; enter a declaratory judgment that TVA’s least-cost-planning analysis was arbitrary, capricious, and/or not in accordance with law; vacate the Kingston Final EIS and the Kingston Record