The Governor's Office of Planning and Budget's 'Power Surge' page (4 Apr 2025) says the 2025 General Session allocated 'a $10.0 million state investment towards nuclear power development', its largest single energy investment that session, and counts the San Rafael Energy Lab, 'a state owned facility', separately from research grants in its tally. Circle of Blue (Keith Schneider, 14 May 2026; first published by the Salt Lake Tribune in April 2026) reports that the Legislature appropriated $10 million for the pieces of Operation Gigawatt, including a $1.8 million communications and marketing program; it dates that appropriation to June 2025, while the budget office's April 2025 page already credits the $10 million to the 2025 General Session, so the month is uncertain. The same article says, separately, that the governor opened a new Energy Development Infrastructure Fund with $5 million for its operation 'this year', and that the Department of Environmental Quality received $726,000 to staff a new nuclear programs office. The Legislature's fiscal note on the first substitute of 2025 H.B. 249 (29 Jan 2025; the enacted version may differ) estimated $300,000 one-time and $525,000 a year for the energy office to staff the Utah Energy Council and the consortium, and said energy development zones would require local governments to remit to the state 50% of the property-tax increase from energy projects in a zone (gov-016). None of this money is recorded as going to Valar; it pays for the state's promotion, staffing and infrastructure of nuclear power generally, including the county-by-county education campaign described in gov-025. Whether any of the $5 million infrastructure fund has gone to projects serving Valar's Emery or Carbon sites was not found (open question). Confidence is 'reported': the $1.8 million, $5 million and $726,000 figures rest on one report.

• Power Surge: Recent Investments in Utah's Energy (Utah Governor's Office of Planning and Budget, 2025-04-04) primary government “allocating a $10.0 million state investment towards nuclear power development”
• Utah's Big Nuclear Bet - Feasible or Fantasy? (Keith Schneider) (Circle of Blue, 2026-05-14) news “$1.8 million communications and marketing program”
• Fiscal Note, H.B. 249 1st Sub. (Buff), Nuclear Power Amendments, 2025 General Session (Utah Office of the Legislative Fiscal Analyst, 2025-01-29) primary government “remit to the state 50% of the increased property tax revenue”