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newrecordconfirmed The 'CONFIDENTIAL' marking is on a Valar deck posted publicly on the state's notice website; the Legislature's June 2025 Valar item used state slides without it
2025-07-08 · dir-038 · Valar Atomics, Utah Public Notice Website, Utah State Legislature, Utah Office of Energy Development

Valar's 12-page deck 'Valar Atomics + SRERC in Emery County' (PDF created 8 July 2025; server date 9 July 2025) is posted on the state-run Utah Public Notice Website as file 1295975, and 11 of its 12 pages carry the line 'CONFIDENTIAL. DO NOT DISTRIBUTE.'; the public body that posted it and the notice it is attached to were not identified. Its content (under 250 kW, 30 effective full-power days in 12 months in a temporary facility, commercial deployment by 2028) matches Valar's 8 July 2025 Emery County town hall as reported (orig-045). The Legislature's record of its 18 June 2025 committee meeting lists, for the Valar item, only OED's four-page 'Nuclear Update' slides, whose text carries no such marking (gov-040); Valar's own 17-slide deck filed with the same committee in May 2026 carries none either (gov-019). The marking shows how Valar labelled one deck. The deck itself is public, and the marking on its own does not show that any meeting or decision was confidential.

In plain termsOne Valar slide deck from July 2025 is stamped 'CONFIDENTIAL. DO NOT DISTRIBUTE.' on most pages, yet it is posted on the state's public notice website for anyone to download. The stamp shows how Valar labelled its slides; it does not show that any meeting or decision was closed to the public. The deck legislators were shown in June 2025 was the state energy office's own, with no such stamp.
verified 2026-10-01: New 2026-10-01 (adversarial review, strengthen pass). Deck afd9cf15ec0c2079 (pdfinfo: created 8 Jul 2025 17:18 MDT; Last-Modified 9 Jul 2025; marking on most pages); meeting record 6692e207c3035fa3; OED slides e12d2c4c38ccc053 (no marking in text). The May 2026 Valar deck was checked as page images in the verify pass (verify.json claim 22). The 'notice it is attached to' was searched for and not found (verify pass).

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