Title 15 — Natural Resources and Economic Development
42 chapters · 1,687 sections in this title.
Ark. Code Ann. § 15-10-101 [Repealed.]
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A.C.A. § 15-10-101Current through all legislation of the 2025 Regular Session.Arkansas Code of 1987 Annotated Official EditionCopyright © 2026 by the State of Arkansas All rights reserved
Ark. Code Ann. § 15-10-102 Bioenergy and carbon capture technology — Definitions
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(a) As used in this section:(1) “Bioenergy with carbon capture and storage” means the process of capturing and permanently storing carbon dioxide from biomass energy generation; and(2) “Biomass” means bioenergy feedstocks from forest products manufacturing, including without limi…
Ark. Code Ann. § 15-10-103 State energy policy
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(a) It is the policy of this state that the state shall have an adequate, affordable, reliable, dispatchable, secure, and resilient electric generation and transmission system. (b) To further the policy described in subsection (a) of this section, the state shall seek to:(1) Remo…
Ark. Code Ann. § 15-10-201 Title
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This subchapter may be cited as the “Arkansas Energy Reorganization and Policy Act of 1981”.
Ark. Code Ann. § 15-10-202 Declaration of policy
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(1) The General Assembly finds and declares that:(1) The adequacy of future energy supplies will be crucial to the state's economic development;(2) In order to create a favorable environment for economic development and in order to preserve and enhance our present quality of life…
Ark. Code Ann. § 15-10-203 Arkansas Energy Office of the Division of Environmental Quality — Creation
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(a) (1) There is created the Arkansas Energy Office of the Division of Environmental Quality.(2) (A) The executive head of this office shall be the Director of the Arkansas Energy Office.(B) The Director of the Arkansas Energy Office shall be appointed by the Secretary of the Dep…
Ark. Code Ann. § 15-10-204 Arkansas Energy Office of the Division of Environmental Quality — Director
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(a) Each division of the Arkansas Energy Office of the Division of Environmental Quality shall be under the direct control and supervision of the Director of the Arkansas Energy Office. (b) The Director of the Arkansas Energy Office may delegate his or her functions, powers, and …
Ark. Code Ann. § 15-10-205 Arkansas Energy Office of the Division of Environmental Quality — Powers and duties
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(a) The Arkansas Energy Office of the Division of Environmental Quality shall coordinate authority and planning by the state in energy-related matters and shall have the following duties and responsibilities:(1) Coordinating energy matters between and among all state agencies;(2)…
Ark. Code Ann. § 15-10-206 Agency cooperation and coordination with Arkansas Energy Office of the Division of Environmental Quality
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All other state agencies shall cooperate and coordinate with the Arkansas Energy Office of the Division of Environmental Quality to the utmost degree within the range of action permissible within statutory authority.
Ark. Code Ann. § 15-10-207 Reporting regarding the Weatherization Assistance Program
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(1) The Arkansas Energy Office of the Division of Environmental Quality shall report to the House Committee on Public Health, Welfare, and Labor and the Senate Committee on Public Health, Welfare, and Labor concerning the Weatherization Assistance Program as transferred to the of…
Ark. Code Ann. § 15-10-301 Declaration of policy
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(a) The State of Arkansas endorses the action of the United States Congress in enacting the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, 42 U.S.C. § 2011 et seq., to institute a program to encourage the widespread participation in the development and utilization of atomic energy for peaceful purpo…
Ark. Code Ann. § 15-10-302 Definitions
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(1) As used in this subchapter:(1) “Atomic energy” means all forms of energy released in the course of nuclear fission or nuclear transformation;(2) “By-product material” means any radioactive material, except special nuclear material, yielded in or made radioactive by exposure t…
Ark. Code Ann. § 15-10-303 License or permit requirement
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No person shall manufacture, construct, produce, transfer, acquire, or possess any special nuclear material, by-product material, production facility, or utilization facility wholly within this state unless he or she shall have first obtained a license or permit for the activity …
Ark. Code Ann. § 15-10-304 Studying need for changes in law
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(a) Each of the following departments and agencies of state government is directed to initiate and to pursue continuing studies as to the need, if any, for changes in the laws and rules administered by it that would arise from the presence within the state of special nuclear mate…
Ark. Code Ann. § 15-10-305 Coordinator of Atomic Development Activities
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(a) (1) The Governor may appoint a citizen of this state as the Coordinator of Atomic Development Activities.(2) The person appointed shall serve as:(A) Advisor to the Governor with respect to atomic industrial development within the state;(B) Coordinator of the development and r…
Ark. Code Ann. § 15-10-306 Injunction
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Whenever, in the opinion of the Attorney General, any person is violating or is about to violate § 15-10-303, the Attorney General may apply to the appropriate court for an order enjoining the person from engaging or continuing to engage in the activity violative of this subchapt…
Ark. Code Ann. § 15-10-401 Enactment of compact into law
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SOUTHERN STATES ENERGY COMPACT The Southern States Energy Compact is hereby enacted into law and entered into by this State with any and all states legally joining therein in accordance with its terms, in the form substantially as follows: SOUTHERN STATES ENERGY COMPACT ARTICLE I…
Ark. Code Ann. § 15-10-402 Arkansas board members
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(a) The three (3) Arkansas members on the Southern States Energy Board shall be selected as follows:(1) The Governor shall be ex officio a member of the board, or the Governor, at his or her discretion, may name some other resident elector of this state to serve on the board in h…
Ark. Code Ann. § 15-10-403 Supplementary agreements — Appropriations
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(a) Any supplementary agreement entered into pursuant to Article VI of the Southern States Energy Compact, § 15-10-401, and requiring the expenditure of funds or the assumption of an obligation to expend funds shall not become effective as to this state prior to the making of an …
Ark. Code Ann. § 15-10-404 Officers, departments, agencies, and institutions authorized to cooperate with board
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All officers, departments, agencies, and institutions of this state and of its political subdivisions are authorized to cooperate with the Southern States Energy Board in the furtherance of any of its activities pursuant to the Southern States Energy Compact, § 15-10-401.