Company: TVC
Filing Date: 2025-07-29
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0001376986-25-000044
Chunk: 457

Company: Tennessee Valley Authority
Filing Date: 2025-07-29
Form: 10-Q
Item: Part II, Item 5
Chunk 457
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 Kingston Gas-Fired Plant.  On October 10, 2024, Appalachian Voices, the Center for Biological Diversity, and the Sierra Club filed a lawsuit in the U.S. 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.  TVA filed its answer on December 16, 2024.  The plaintiffs filed a motion to compete the administrative record on June 30, 2025.  TVA cannot predict the outcome of this litigation.  See Note 22 — Commitments and Contingencies — Legal Proceedings — Case Involving Kingston Gas-Fired Plant in the Annual Report. Challenge to Kingston Construction Permit.  On December 16, 2024, the Southern Environmental Law Center filed an appeal on behalf of Appalachian Voices challenging the construction permit that the Technical Secretary acting on behalf of the Tennessee Air Pollution Control Board issued to TVA on November 15, 2024, for the construction of natural gas generation at Kingston.  Appalachian Voices alleges that TDEC unlawfully issued a construction permit that would allow TVA to construct the plant without meeting the requirements set forth in the Tennessee Air Quality Act's and Federal Clean Air Act’s Prevention of Significant Deterioration program.  Among other things, Appalachian Voices is requesting that the Tennessee Air Pollution Control Board stay the effectiveness of the permit and order TDEC to revoke the permit.  On January 7, 2025, TVA filed a petition to intervene in the administrative proceeding, which was granted on January 15, 2025.  The parties filed competing motions for summary judgement on March 14, 2025, and oral argument on these motions was held on June 24, 2025.  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 Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's ("FERC’s") issuance 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