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STATE OF OKLAHOMA
1st Session of the 60th Legislature (2025)
SENATE BILL 130 By: Burns
AS INTRODUCED
An Act relating to the Corporation Commission;
defining terms; directing Commission to enact certain
requisition; specifying terms of requ isition;
providing for preference of certain acquisition;
prescribing contents of study; directing publishing
and transmission of study by certain date; making an
appropriation; stating purpose; providing for
codification; and declaring an emergency .
BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:
SECTION 1. NEW LAW A new section of law to be codified
in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 803 of Title 17, unless there is
created a duplication in numbering, reads as fo llows:
A. 1. Not later than thirty (30) days after the effective date
of this act, the Corporation Commission shall submit a requisition
pursuant to Section 85.1 et seq. of Title 74 of the Oklahoma
Statutes to contract with an outside consulting firm to conduct a
technical and legal feasibility study on nuclear energy generation
in this state.
2. The submitted requisition shall require the contract be
awarded to an outside consulting firm that has:
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a. professional experience consulting on nuclear energy
projects,
b. a significant portion of its revenue earned from
nuclear energy project licensing, and
c. experience in submitting and obtaining regulatory
permissions for new reactor designs and licenses under
10 C.F.R., Part 52.
3. If the price, fitness, a vailability, and quality are
otherwise equal, acquisition preference shall be given to consulting
firms that have at least forty percent (40%) of their assets owned
by one or more military veterans and are managed by military
veterans as defined by 38 U.S.C., Section 101(2).
B. The feasibility study shall evaluate and consider:
1. Advantages and disadvantages of generating nuclear energy in
this state, including, but not limited to, the economic and
environmental impacts;
2. Methods to maximize existing workforce and products made in
this state for the construction of nuclear ener gy generation
facilities;
3. Design characteristics, including recommendations for design
specification and site selection;
4. Environmental and ecological impacts;
5. Land and siting criteria, including specific geographic
areas that are best suited for new nuclear generation;
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6. Safety criteria;
7. Engineering and cost -related information;
8. Small modular nuclear reactor and microreactors capability;
and
9. Socioeconomic factors, including, but not limited to:
a. workforce education, training, and development,
b. local and state tax base,
c. supply chain capability,
d. permanent and temporary job creation,
e. timeline for development, including areas of potential
efficiencies, and potential leveraging of existing
facilities within this state,
f. benefits that may be gained by coordinating with other
clean energy technologies, including, but not limited
to, hydrogen, direct air capture of carbon dioxide,
and energy storage,
g. literature review of studies that have assessed the
potential impact of nu clear energy generation in
supporting an energy transition, and
h. policy recommendations to support nuclear energy
generation, including a survey of federal programs to
financially assist the development of a nuclear
project in this state.
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C. The Corporation Commission in conjunction with retail
electric suppliers and municipally owned electric utilities shall
cooperate in providing information relevant to the feasibility
study, providing for reasonable safeguards to protect confidential
information.
D. Not later than nine (9) months after the effective date of
this act, the Corporation Commission shall electronically deliver
the feasibility study findings to the President Pro T empore of the
Senate, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, and the
Governor.
SECTION 2. There is hereby appropriated to the Corporation
Commission from any monies not otherwise appropriated from the
General Revenue Fund of the Stat e Treasury for the fiscal year
ending June 30, 2024, the sum of Three Hundred Seventy-five Thousand
Dollars ($375,000.00) or so much thereof as may be necessary to
perform the feasibility study as provided for in Section 1 of this
act.
SECTION 3. It being immediately necessary for the preservation
of the public peace, health or safety, an emergency is hereby
declared to exist, by reason whereof this act shall take effect and
be in full force from and after its passage and approval.
60-1-1055 RD 12/27/2024 1:41:06 PM