Policy and licensing / Vermont

Vermont: 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 Vermont as everywhere in the United States and are listed once on the federal page. They are not counted here.

Laws, rules and executive directives

• Vermont Act 52 of 2021: radiological emergency response plan fund · In effect
  2021 Vt. Acts & Resolves No. 52, Sec. 16 (20 V.S.A. § 38) · Vermont General Assembly · affects: Project funding
  Vermont Act 52, signed 3 June 2021, amends the radiological emergency response plan fund effective 1 July 2021. An entity operating a nuclear reactor or storing nuclear fuel and radioactive waste deposits the appropriated amount. Subsections omitted by an ellipsis were not read. The act is not a construction permit.
  Not approved or pending: Subsections omitted by the enrolled act's ellipsis were not read. The official code for 30 V.S.A. sections 248 and 254 was not opened. No dollar balance, award, or named recipient is stored. No project is linked. This is not permission to construct or operate a reactor.

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 Vermont

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

• None recorded.