Policy and licensing / New Mexico

New Mexico: SMR policy and licensing

Selected federal measures and selected state measures whose official text was opened. This is not a complete list of laws, rules or programmes for any jurisdiction. A state without a page here is not a finding that it has no policy, and these pages do not rate or prefer any state. Nothing here implies that a project is eligible for, or approved under, any measure.

Federal measures apply in New Mexico as everywhere in the United States and are listed once on the federal page. They are not counted here.

Laws, rules and executive directives

• New Mexico location approval for a large capacity plant · In effect
  N.M. Admin. Code § 17.9.592.8 · New Mexico Public Regulation Commission · affects: Siting
  New Mexico requires commission approval before construction of a large capacity plant, defined as generation of 300 megawatts or more. The approval section is effective 1 May 2004. The opened text does not say nuclear and does not grant an approval.
  Not approved or pending: The rule does not approve a plant. It does not say nuclear, so it does not decide a unit below 300 megawatts. Other sections of the same part print a 27 December 2022 amendment. That date is not this approval section's effective date. The cited NMSA sections were not opened. No project is linked.

Bills, proposed rules and consultations

• None recorded in this pilot.

Funding and support programmes

• None recorded in this pilot.

NRC permissions and applications for tracked projects located in New Mexico

Listed by project location only. The New Mexico measures above do not license reactors; the NRC does.

• None recorded.