Rhode Island Energy Facility Siting Board rules

Rhode Island's active Energy Facility Siting Board rules, effective 4 January 2022, treat a facility that processes, enriches, stores or disposes of nuclear fuels or nuclear byproducts as a major energy facility. The rule does not itself approve a reactor.

Category: Laws, rules and executive directives
Status: In effect
Instrument: final rule · 445-RICR-00-00-1
Issued by: Rhode Island Energy Facility Siting Board
Jurisdiction: Rhode Island
Affects: Siting
In effect from: 4 Jan 2022 · actual · day
Expiry or completion: None recorded
Operative text: Rhode Island Energy Facility Siting Board rule 445-RICR-00-00-1 (Department of State rule page opened 5 October 2026)
Last checked · next review: 2026-10-05 · 2027-04-15

Legal and geographic scope

Active rules of practice and procedure. The Department of State page gives an effective date of 4 January 2022. The definition of a major energy facility includes any facility for the processing, enrichment, storage or disposal of nuclear fuels and nuclear byproducts. It also includes electricity generation of 40 megawatts or more, without naming nuclear generation as its own category.

Not approved or still pending

The definition identifies facilities that the siting rules cover. It does not grant a construction permit or an operating approval. The siting statute is a separate instrument.

Dated lifecycle

4 Jan 2022 · actual · day · Took effect — The Department of State rules page prints Regulation Status Active and Effective 01/04/2022. (Rhode Island Energy Facility Siting Board rule 445-RICR-00-00-1)

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

Rhode Island Energy Facility Siting Board rule 445-RICR-00-00-1 (government_primary, accessed 2026-10-05)