The Reactor Pilot Program's Request for Application (DE-FOA-0003569, issued 18 June 2025) is posted only on the FedConnect portal, which was not read. Hogan Lovells' summary of it (1 July 2025) says: it is 'not a funding opportunity' and applicants bear all costs, including spent-fuel storage and fuel procurement, but 'Applicants will not be responsible for DOE costs incurred reviewing documents' during authorization; applicants must have a mature design, 'established fuel plans' with a fabrication and disposition pathway, adequate money and qualified staff; they must secure their own site 'on public or private lands'; applicants needing HALEU must be in DOE's HALEU allocation process; DOE would use Other Transaction Agreements, not contracts or grants; the level of NEPA review was not yet set; and there are nine selection criteria, including site status and foreign-ownership risk. The summary mentions no requirement for state or local government consent, support letters or public engagement. Set beside the record: Valar's OTA is recorded at $0 (gov-003); NRC applicants, by contrast, pay the NRC's hourly review fees (EO 14300 refers to 'the NRC's recovery of hourly fees', gov-009); Valar's spent fuel is to go to an unnamed 'DOE-approved facility' (safe-023); Valar is not in any announced HALEU allocation (gov-008).

• DOE's Office of Nuclear Energy issues Request for Application for Reactor Pilot Program (Daniel Stenger, Stewart Forbes, Valerie Marshall) (Hogan Lovells, 2025-07-01) analysis “Applicants will not be responsible for DOE costs incurred reviewing documents”
• U.S. Department of Energy Reactor Pilot Program (U.S. Department of Energy) primary government
• Executive Order 14300, Ordering the Reform of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (90 FR 22587) (Federal Register (GPO govinfo), 2025-05-29) primary government “fixed caps on the NRC's recovery of hourly fees”