House adopts resolution backing Oklahoma bid for federal nuclear innovation campus

Representative Archer urged the House to back a federal bid to locate a Department of Energy nuclear life-cycle innovation campus in Oklahoma, saying the state's secretary of energy submitted a request for information to the DOE and the award will go to a single site. "Our secretary of energy's office has worked very hard to submit the RFI, to the department of energy, trying to get an innovation campus in the state of Oklahoma," Archer said.

Archer told members the federally selected site could bring workforce and economic opportunities not currently present in the state, saying "whoever is selected, hopefully, it will be Oklahoma" and that the campus "will provide hundreds of jobs and energy opportunity." The resolution, filed as "House resolution 10 41 by Archer," expresses the chamber's support for pursuing the designation.

Archer requested unanimous consent that the resolution be adopted; the presiding officer stated "Without objection, that'll be the order," and the resolution was ordered adopted by unanimous consent. The transcript records the presentation and the consent request but does not include a roll-call vote on the resolution.

The resolution asks state officials to continue engaging with the federal process; next steps will be external to the Legislature and driven by the Department of Energy's selection process and any subsequent federal solicitations. The House took no additional binding budget action on the floor during the adoption.

The committee or state offices leading the bid, and any formal commitments of state funding or incentives, were not specified in the floor remarks.