119th Congress · introduced in the Senate · May 14, 2026
Build Nuclear with Local Materials Act of 2026
Official title from Congress.gov
Latest action (May 20, 2026): Committee on Environment and Public Works Subcommittee on Clean Air, Climate, and Nuclear Innovation and Safety. Hearings held.
View on Congress.govPolicy area: Energy
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Includes amendment, cloture, and procedural votes. Each is labeled with its exact question; only a passage question is a vote to pass the bill.
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Committee on Environment and Public Works Subcommittee on Clean Air, Climate, and Nuclear Innovation and Safety. Hearings held.
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
Introduced in Senate
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Administrative law and regulatory procedures · Metals · Nuclear power · Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC)
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NUCLEAR ENERGY INSTITUTE, INC · lobbying firm or registrant: NUCLEAR ENERGY INSTITUTE, INC.
2026 Q3 report (Jul 1, 2026 – Sep 30, 2026) · posted Oct 20, 2026 · issue area: Trade (domestic/foreign)
$600,000
Spent on own lobbying
…Regulatory Commission to allow the use of commercial-grade steel and concrete in non-safety-related structures at nuclear power plants, and for other purposes. S.4529 - Build Nuclear with Local Materials Act: To require the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to allow the use of commercial-grade steel and concrete in non-safety-re…
Congress inferred from the report year; bill number and the title cited with it match Congress.gov records, and the bill predates the report. The amount is lobbying spending for every issue on this report, not this bill alone, and none of it is paid to any member of Congress. View filing
PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION · lobbying firm or registrant: PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION
2026 Q3 report (Jul 1, 2026 – Sep 30, 2026) · posted Oct 19, 2026 · issue area: Energy/Nuclear
Amount not reported
S.4529; H.R.8812; S.5653
Congress inferred from the report year; bill number matches Congress.gov records and the bill predates the report; no title was cited with it. View filing
NUCLEAR ENERGY INSTITUTE, INC · lobbying firm or registrant: NUCLEAR ENERGY INSTITUTE, INC.
2026 Q2 report (Apr 1, 2026 – Jun 30, 2026) · posted Jul 20, 2026 · issue area: Trade (domestic/foreign)
$560,000
Spent on own lobbying
…Regulatory Commission to allow the use of commercial-grade steel and concrete in non-safety-related structures at nuclear power plants, and for other purposes. S.4529 - Build Nuclear with Local Materials Act: To require the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to allow the use of commercial-grade steel and concrete in non-safety-re…
Congress inferred from the report year; bill number and the title cited with it match Congress.gov records, and the bill predates the report. The amount is lobbying spending for every issue on this report, not this bill alone, and none of it is paid to any member of Congress. View filing
PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION · lobbying firm or registrant: PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION
2026 Q2 report (Apr 1, 2026 – Jun 30, 2026) · posted Jul 20, 2026 · issue area: Energy/Nuclear
Amount not reported
S.4529; H.R.8812
Congress inferred from the report year; bill number matches Congress.gov records and the bill predates the report; no title was cited with it. View filing
AMERICANS FOR PROSPERITY · lobbying firm or registrant: AMERICANS FOR PROSPERITY
2026 Q2 report (Apr 1, 2026 – Jun 30, 2026) · posted Jul 16, 2026 · issue area: Energy/Nuclear
$660,000
Spent on own lobbying
…ergy Choice Act - provisions related to of the benefits of streamlined and non-discriminatory distribution of energy systems to consumers regardless of locale. S. 4529, Build Nuclear with Local Materials Act, spoke on provisions related to the reliability of nuclear energy for baseload generation. S. 4475, Unlock American Ene…
Congress inferred from the report year; bill number and the title cited with it match Congress.gov records, and the bill predates the report. The amount is lobbying spending for every issue on this report, not this bill alone, and none of it is paid to any member of Congress. View filing