Electric - Qualifying Facilities
Reporting Changes to Your Certified Facility
Procedures and requirements for reporting changes to your certified
facility may be different depending on whether your facility has
been certified by the Commission or through self-certification.
If your Commission-certified facility has undergone any alterations
such that the data submitted with the previous Commission certification
or recertification of QF status are no longer accurate, you must either:
- Submit a self-recertification or an application for Commission
recertification of QF status, or
- Report insubstantial changes to your Commission-certified
facility via a pre-authorized Commission recertification of QF status,
as described below.
Such filings must be made prior to or concurrent with the changes
to the facility.
If your self-certified facility has undergone any alteration such
that the data submitted with the previous self-certification or
recertification are no longer accurate, you must either submit
a self-recertification or an application for Commission recertification
of your facility containing the updated data prior to or concurrent
with the changes to the facility.
When submitting a self-recertification or an application for Commission
recertification, an applicant must submit all of the required
items for the respective certification type (self-certification
or Commission
certification), including an updated Form No. 556. The cover
letter should summarize the changes that have occurred or
will occur, and indicate which required attachments are enclosed
(Form No. 556; filing fee, as applicable; draft Federal Register
notice, as applicable). For the items in the updated Form No.
556 that have not changed from the previously submitted Form No.
556, an applicant may, instead of repeating data, refer back (by
date) to the previous Form No. 556 that contained the unchanged
data. Such incorporation of previous data by reference to past
filings should make clear in which filings the data for each unchanged
item can be found. Alternatively, applicants may simply repeat
their previously submitted data, if preferred; however, the filing
should make clear which data have changed.
Certain changes to a Commission-certified facility can be reported
via a Pre-authorized Commission Recertification
pursuant to 18 C.F.R. 292.207(a)(2), instead of an application
for Commission recertification pursuant to 18 C.F.R. 292.207(b).
18 C.F.R. 292.207(a)(2) contains a list of insubstantial alterations
which are eligible for reporting via the pre-authorized Commission
recertification. There is no fee for a pre-authorized Commission
recertification, and a facility which has properly reported its
insubstantial alterations to the Commission via a pre-authorized
Commission recertification in accordance with 18 C.F.R. 292.207(a)(2)
retains its status as a "Commission-certified" QF.
Applicants
submitting a self-recertification, Commission recertification
or pre-authorized Commission recertification must provide copies
of the filing to the utilities with which the facility transacts business,
as well as to the Public
Utility Commissions  of the states in which those
utilities and the QF reside.
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