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Bill tightened to target electronic components near Offutt and Panhandle missile fields; utilities and PRB disagree on scope
Summary
Senator Barry DeKay (R-District 40) presented LB 43 to clarify and narrow last year's law restricting foreign-adversary components near sensitive military installations, proposing to focus on electronic-related components and to define covered military sites.
Senator Barry DeKay (R-District 40) introduced LB 43 to amend provisions of last year's LB 1370, which requires electric suppliers to certify that equipment and components used within 10 miles of certain sensitive military installations are not manufactured by foreign adversaries listed by federal regulation.
DeKay said LB 43 narrows and clarifies the statute in several ways: it defines the covered military installations by citing applicable federal regulations, clarifies that the law applies only to electronic-related equipment and components (not general hardware such as nuts and bolts), updates the federal citation for the foreign-adversary list (moved to 15 C.F.R. § 791.4), and creates a process for electric suppliers to submit a one-time certification to the Nebraska Power Review Board (PRB) that their facilities meet the requirement.
"There were some concerns that LB 1370 applied to…
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