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South Dakota energy facility construction permit

South Dakota requires a Public Utilities Commission permit before a utility begins construction of a covered facility on or after 1 July 1979. The opened definition is a generation threshold of one hundred megawatts and does not say nuclear. The latest source line is 1983, with no day.

Category
Laws, rules and executive directives
Status
In effect
Instrument
statute · S.D. Codified Laws § 49-41B-4
Issued by
South Dakota Legislature
Jurisdiction
South Dakota
Affects
Siting
Effective date
Not recorded
Expiry or completion
None recorded
Operative text
South Dakota Codified Laws section 49-41B-4 (Legislature API text opened 4 October 2026)
Last checked · next review
2026-10-04 · 2027-04-15

Legal and geographic scope

No utility may begin construction of a facility in the state on or after 1 July 1979 without a Public Utilities Commission permit. A water-transport associated facility does not need that permit if the water management board has issued a water-appropriation permit. The source line runs through session law 1983, chapter 349. The opened facility definition covers generation of one hundred megawatts or more and does not use the word nuclear.

Not approved or still pending

The section does not issue a permit and does not name nuclear energy. The 1 July 1979 date stays in the construction sentence. The statute-browser page was a loading shell and was not used. No adopted siting rule text was opened. No project is linked.

Dated lifecycle

Projects or designs named by the source

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