Minnesota Rules chapter 7855: certificate applications for nuclear fuel and waste facilities

Minnesota's certificate-of-need rules require specified information for a new nuclear fuel processing facility and a new nuclear waste storage or disposal facility. A separate rule states what a waste-facility application must describe. The revisor posts the parts as current and marks them published electronically on 14 November 2003. They do not approve a power reactor.

Category: Laws, rules and executive directives
Status: In effect
Instrument: final rule · Minn. R. 7855.0030 and 7855.0600
Issued by: Minnesota Public Utilities Commission
Jurisdiction: Minnesota
Affects: Siting
Effective date: Not recorded
Expiry or completion: None recorded
Operative text: Minnesota Rules 7855.0030 and 7855.0600 (Revisor rule parts opened 5 October 2026)
Last checked · next review: 2026-10-05 · 2027-04-15

Legal and geographic scope

Current certificate-of-need rules. Rule 7855.0030 lists a new nuclear fuel processing facility, an expansion of one, a new nuclear waste storage or disposal facility, and an expansion of one among the large energy facilities whose applications must supply the information the chapter requires. Rule 7855.0600 states what an application for a nuclear waste storage or disposal facility must describe. The revisor's electronic publication line is 14 November 2003. The history line is Laws 1983, chapter 289, section 115. The part page does not print a separate adoption day.

Not approved or still pending

The rules govern applications for nuclear fuel-processing and nuclear waste storage or disposal facilities. They do not permit a power reactor. The electronic publication line is not an adoption date. Minnesota Statutes section 216B.243 remains the separate certificate statute.

Dated lifecycle

14 Nov 2003 · actual · day · Published — The revisor prints Published Electronically: November 14, 2003. That line is not stored as an adoption date. (Minnesota Rules 7855.0030 and 7855.0600)

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

Minnesota Rules 7855.0030 and 7855.0600 (government_primary, accessed 2026-10-05)