Policy and licensing / Louisiana
Louisiana Act 111 of 2025: small modular reactor environmental permitting
Louisiana's enrolled Act 111 of 2025 amends the environmental expedited-permitting statute so a qualifying small modular reactor application can use a federal permitting-parity programme. The applicant must state that purpose and point to a federal letter of collaboration on file. The act does not itself issue the permit, and the enrolled PDF does not print an approval date.
- Category
- Laws, rules and executive directives
- Status
- In effect
- Instrument
- statute · La. R.S. 30:2014.5, as amended by 2025 La. Acts No. 111
- Issued by
- Louisiana Legislature
- Jurisdiction
- Louisiana
- Affects
- Environmental review
- Effective date
- Not recorded
- Expiry or completion
- None recorded
- Operative text
- Louisiana Act 111 of 2025 (SB 127), enrolled act (Enrolled Act 111 PDF opened 4 October 2026; approval line blank)
- Last checked · next review
- 2026-10-04 · 2027-04-15
Legal and geographic scope
Enrolled act amending the state expedited environmental-permitting programme. For a nuclear application, the applicant must state that the purpose is development and construction of a small modular reactor and that the application is consistent with a letter of collaboration on file with the department. The letter may be with the president or a named federal department or the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. The secretary adopts Administrative Procedure Act rules for the programme. The opened act uses small modular reactor without a megawatt threshold.
Not approved or still pending
The APPROVED line is blank, so no signature day or effective day is stored. The act authorizes a state environmental-permitting programme. It does not issue an environmental permit or a Nuclear Regulatory Commission licence. No project is linked.
Dated lifecycle
- 2025 · actual · year · Enacted — The PDF is the 2025 regular session enrolled Act No. 111. The APPROVED line is blank, so no day is stored. (Louisiana Act 111 of 2025 (SB 127), enrolled act)
Definitions in this instrument
- Small modular reactor (R.S. 30:2014.5, as amended by Act 111 of 2025): The opened act uses this term for the reactor whose development and construction is the stated purpose of a qualifying environmental application. It states no megawatt threshold.
Legal definition used by this instrument only; SMRMap's inclusion rule for SMRs is separate and unchanged.
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
- Louisiana Act 111 of 2025 (SB 127), enrolled act (government_primary, accessed 2026-10-04)