Kansas nuclear generation facility siting permit
Kansas requires a Corporation Commission permit before an electric utility starts site preparation or construction of a nuclear generation facility, using a definition that excludes several nearby and out-of-state cases. The 2025 compilation's last history line is the 2007 session law, effective 1 July on that line.
- Category
- Laws, rules and executive directives
- Status
- In effect
- Instrument
- statute · K.S.A. 66-1,158 and 66-1,159
- Issued by
- Kansas Legislature
- Jurisdiction
- Kansas
- Affects
- Siting
- In effect from
- 1 Jul 2007 · actual · day
- Expiry or completion
- None recorded
- Operative text
- Kansas Statutes 66-1,158, 2025 compilation (2025 Kansas Statutes PDF and statute page opened 4 October 2026)
- Last checked · next review
- 2026-10-04 · 2027-04-15
Legal and geographic scope
2025 compilation. A nuclear generation facility is a physical plant that uses nuclear energy as the primary fuel for electricity. The definition excludes remodeling or retrofit, nonnuclear capacity at a nuclear site, an addition or new facility within three miles of an existing reactor, and certain out-of-state facilities serving a small share of Kansas retail customers. An electric utility may not begin site preparation or construction, or use eminent domain for that purpose, without a Kansas Corporation Commission permit. The commission sets a public hearing not less than 30 and not more than 180 days after the application is filed.
Not approved or still pending
The permit requirement does not issue a permit. The 30-to-180-day hearing window is not a calendar date. The governor's executive-order page returned HTTP 403 and was not retried. No Kansas project is linked.
Dated lifecycle
- 1 Jul 2007 · actual · day · Amended — Both sections' history lines end with L. 2007, ch. 113 and then July 1, without repeating the year. The effective day is stored as 1 July 2007 from that session-law line. Earlier amendment years are not this record's effective date. (Kansas Statutes 66-1,158, 2025 compilation)
Definitions in this instrument
- Nuclear generation facility (K.S.A. 66-1,158(f)): Any physical plant using nuclear energy as the primary fuel for electricity. The same subsection excludes remodeling or retrofit, nonnuclear capacity at a nuclear site, additions and new facilities within three miles of an existing reactor, and specified out-of-state facilities. An existing facility is one in existence on 1 January 2007.
Legal definition used by this instrument only; SMRMap's inclusion rule for SMRs is separate and unchanged.
Related instruments
Projects or designs named by the source
- None. Location in this jurisdiction does not make a project eligible for, or approved under, this measure.
Sources
- Kansas Statutes 66-1,158, 2025 compilation (government_primary, accessed 2026-10-04)
- Kansas Statutes 66-1,159, 2025 compilation (government_primary, accessed 2026-10-04)