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Utah lawmakers are considering creating a new Nuclear Energy Regulatory Office within the state's Division of Waste Management and Radiation Control to handle oversight of nuclear fuel cycle activities such as uranium enrichment, fuel fabrication, reprocessing, storage of nuclear materials, and related waste management, but only to the extent the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission authorizes the state to act. The office would coordinate with federal regulators, administer licensing and permitting programs, conduct inspections and enforcement, and the division's board could adopt rules covering facility siting, safety, security, environmental protection, emergency response, and financial assurance for decommissioning. The division could charge fees to cover licensing, inspections, and program costs, with that money deposited into an existing state environmental account, and it would be directed to evaluate and, if beneficial, pursue expanded "Agreement State" status with the federal government — an arrangement that shifts certain regulatory authority from federal to state control — while reporting annually to a legislative committee on its progress. The bill also creates a narrow exemption from the state's high-level nuclear waste placement rules for certain federally authorized test-reactor waste stored temporarily at a state-owned facility, if that project is separately licensed by the division.