State Rep. Jack Lademan (District 32) asked a House committee on Monday to request Arkansas’s congressional delegation seek federal funding to implement a state nuclear recycling program created by past legislation.

Lademan introduced House Concurrent Resolution HCR1009 and said the measure asks the congressional delegation to request Department of Energy funds to support a rate study and a fee study needed to implement Act 259 (formerly HB1142). “At that time if y’all were in that discussion, I said that there would be no Arkansas funds used to do this and it's a big project, that it would be federal funds,” Lademan told the committee.

Lademan said the resolution requests $10,000,000 for the studies and that the money would be administered through one of the state’s higher education units. He described the request as seeking a portion of money he said the “nuclear fuel recycling fund has received $51,000,000,000 over time since the 1970s,” and argued the proposal was, in his words, “just asking for our funds back.” He also referenced that “$1 billion of that fund came from the citizens of Arkansas through Russellville,” as part of his rationale for requesting federal funds.

Lademan said the requested funds would be used for the rate and fee studies needed to put implementation details in place for the program; the resolution asks the congressional delegation to pursue that federal support through the Department of Energy. He said the studies would be performed by one of Arkansas’s higher‑education institutions but did not name a specific campus or unit in the committee remarks.

There were no questions recorded that led to a referral or a public hearing; the committee moved the resolution “do pass,” and the committee chair called for a voice vote. The transcript records the motion and the chair’s call for “all in favor say aye,” and the committee’s voice vote carried with no recorded opposition. The transcript does not record a roll‑call tally or identify who formally moved or seconded the motion.

The resolution is a request to the federal delegation and does not itself appropriate state dollars or create an implementation schedule in statute; Lademan told the committee follow‑on work would involve higher education units and federal Department of Energy processes. The transcript does not show further committee direction, conditions, or an implementation timeline beyond the language requesting that the delegation seek the specified federal funds.