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West Virginia Enrolled Senate Bill 4 (2022): repeal of the nuclear-construction article

West Virginia Enrolled Senate Bill 4, passed on 31 January 2022, repeals Code sections 16-27A-1 and 16-27A-2. It took effect 90 days from passage, on 1 May 2022. Official code pages still use the ban article heading and display both sections as repealed. The repeal does not approve a reactor.

Category
Laws, rules and executive directives
Status
In effect
Instrument
statute · 2022 W. Va. Acts, Enrolled Senate Bill 4
Issued by
West Virginia Legislature
Jurisdiction
West Virginia
Affects
Siting
In effect from
1 May 2022 · actual · day
Expiry or completion
None recorded
Operative text
West Virginia 2022 regular session, Enrolled Senate Bill 4 (Enrolled Senate Bill 4, 2022 regular session)
Last checked · next review
2026-10-04 · 2027-04-15

Legal and geographic scope

Enrolled act repealing West Virginia Code §§16-27A-1 and 16-27A-2, the article whose heading is a ban on construction of nuclear power plants. Current official code pages opened the same day display both section bodies as repealed and still show that article heading. The repeal is not a certificate, siting approval, or license for any reactor, and the act states no small-modular-reactor definition.

Not approved or still pending

No replacement construction or siting statute was opened. The current code still titles the article as a ban even though both section bodies say repealed. No reactor approval is granted. No West Virginia site is tracked in this dataset.

Dated lifecycle

Projects or designs named by the source

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