S 8458 New York Senate · 2025 Regular Session

Enacts the "nuclear energy deployment act"

Summary
Enacts the "nuclear energy deployment act"; directs the New York state energy research and development authority, in consultation with the public service commission and the department of environmental conservation, to promulgate rules and regulations to facilitate the construction and operation of advanced nuclear reactors and to review and evaluate certain existing regulations and regulatory actions taken concerning nuclear energy; directs the New York state energy research and development authority to create the position of nuclear energy coordinator; directs the New York state energy research and development authority to administer grants from the nuclear energy deployment fund; establishes the nuclear energy deployment fund.
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Jul 2025
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Introduced Jul 16, 2025 Last action Jan 7, 2026
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Jan 7, 2026
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REFERRED TO ENERGY AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS
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Jul 16, 2025
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Tom O'Mara
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