Company: EAI
Filing Date: 2025-05-01
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0000065984-25-000046
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Company: ENTERGY ARKANSAS, LLC
Filing Date: 2025-05-01
Form: 10-Q
Item: Item 3
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 states where the Utility operating companies operate.  The FIP would significantly reduce ozone season nitrogen oxides (NOx) emission allowance budgets and allocations for electric generating units.  Prior to issuance of the FIP, in February 2023 the EPA issued related State Implementation Plan (SIP) disapprovals for many states, including the four states in which the Utility operating companies operate, and these SIP disapprovals are the subject of many legal challenges, including a petition for review filed by Entergy Louisiana challenging the disapproval of Louisiana’s SIP.  Judicial stays of the SIP disapprovals were granted in all four states in which the Utility operating companies operate.  In March 2025 the United States Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals concluded that the EPA properly disapproved Texas’s and Louisiana’s SIPs but found that the EPA’s disapproval was unreasonable for Mississippi’s SIP.  The United States Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals has not issued a merits decision yet in the Arkansas SIP disapproval litigation.  The FIP is also subject to numerous legal challenges in various federal circuit courts of appeals, and in June 2024 the United States Supreme Court issued an order, in challenges filed in the D.C. Circuit, staying enforcement of the FIP pending the D.C. Circuit’s review of the rule.  Following the United States Supreme Court stay, the EPA also stayed the FIP.  In March 2025 the EPA asked the D.C. Circuit for a voluntary remand to reconsider the FIP.  In its declaration, the EPA states that it plans to reconsider, among other things, what states are subject to the FIP.  In April 2025 the D.C. Circuit held the cases in abeyance pending further order of the court.  The EPA anticipates a new rule by fall 2026.  Entergy is monitoring this litigation, any subsequent rulemaking, and assessing its compliance options in the event that the FIP becomes effective.

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Item 6.  Exhibits 

4(a) -Term Loan Credit Agreement dated as of February 21, 2025, by and among Entergy New Orleans, the Lenders party thereto and Bank of America, N.A., as Administrative Agent (4 to Form 8-K filed February 24, 2025 in 1-35747).4(b) -Officer’s Certificate No. 24-B-18, dated February 24, 2025, supplemental to Indenture, Deed of Trust