UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT WESTERN DISTRICT OF TENNESSEE EASTERN DIVISION

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA upon the relation and for the use of the TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY,

Plaintiff,

v. No. 1:25-cv-02316-STA-jay

AN EASEMENT AND RIGHT-OF-WAY OVER 5.08 ACRES OF LAND, MORE OR LESS, IN CHESTER COUNTY, TENNESSEE, and HUNTER FAULKNER, REBECCA FAULKNER, his wife, FARM CREDIT MID-AMERICA, FLCA, B. TIMOTHY WILLIAMS, trustee,

Defendants.

ORDER GRANTING MOTION FOR ENTRY OF ORDER OF IMMEDIATE POSSESSION AND ORDER OF POSSESSION

Plaintiff’s ex parte motion for entry of an order of immediate possession (ECF No. 12) is GRANTED. Pursuant to 40 U.S.C. §§ 3114−3118, which authorizes the Court “to give the Government immediate possession of the [condemned] property,” United States v. Miller,

(1943), it is hereby ORDERED that the Tennessee Valley Authority (“TVA”), as agent of the United States of America, be put into immediate possession of the property described in the Declaration of Taking filed in this action to the extent necessary to permit TVA to carry on any of its operations described in the pleadings filed herein, and that the Defendants in such action surrender possession of said property to the TVA. IT IS SO ORDERED. s/ S. Thomas Anderson S. THOMAS ANDERSON