Policy and licensing / New Hampshire
New Hampshire RSA 162-F:1: decommissioning funding responsibility
New Hampshire's current RSA 162-F:1 requires each owner of a nuclear electric generating facility to provide funding for decommissioning and later site surveillance. The compilation prints 3 September 2001 as the effective date of the latest cited amendment. It names no plant and states no balance. It is not a construction permit.
- Category
- Laws, rules and executive directives
- Status
- In effect
- Instrument
- statute · RSA 162-F:1
- Issued by
- New Hampshire General Court
- Jurisdiction
- New Hampshire
- Affects
- State programme administration
- In effect from
- 3 Sep 2001 · actual · day
- Expiry or completion
- None recorded
- Operative text
- New Hampshire RSA 162-F:1, decommissioning responsibility (Compilation page opened 4 October 2026)
- Last checked · next review
- 2026-10-05 · 2027-04-15
Legal and geographic scope
Current compilation of RSA 162-F:1. The legislature requires adequate funding by each owner of a nuclear electric generating facility for decommissioning and for later surveillance of the site to the extent needed to keep it from becoming a hazard. The source line cites 1971, 357:1; 1981, 109:1; 1991, 295:2; and 2001, 193:3, effective 3 September 2001. The earlier acts were not opened. The section does not name a plant, state a dollar balance, or grant a construction permit.
Not approved or still pending
The effective date is the date the source line prints for 2001, chapter 193, section 3. The 1971, 1981, and 1991 acts were not opened. No plant is named and no dollar balance is stated. The 2025 Nuclear Decommissioning Financing Committee order returned HTTP 403 and was not read. No project is linked. This section does not permit construction or operation.
Dated lifecycle
- 3 Sep 2001 · actual · day · Amended — The source line prints 2001, 193:3, eff. Sept. 3, 2001. That is the latest cited amendment, not a finding about the 1971, 1981, or 1991 acts. (New Hampshire RSA 162-F:1, decommissioning responsibility)
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
- New Hampshire RSA 162-F:1, decommissioning responsibility (government_primary, accessed 2026-10-04)