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ti <br />1 <br />Rules for the Purchase, Sale, and Wheeling of Electricity <br />Generated By- Qualifying Facilities <br />I. Introduction. <br />To encourage the production of electricity from renewable fuels, waste <br />and by-products and efficient generation processes (known as "qualifying <br />facilities" under Federal rules); Section 210 of the Public Utility Regu- <br />latory Policies Act of 1978 (PURPA) was enacted by Congress. Theprimary <br />f responsibility for implementing the Federal statute rests with the Feder- <br />al Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC); the FERC issued rules on February <br />w 19, 1980 to carry out the policies set forth in Section 210 of PURPA. <br />As an electric utility under the meaning of PURPA, the electrical depart- <br />. } <br />ment operated by the City of Colton will -comply with the Section 210 of <br />1 <br />PURPA and the FERC rules implementing this portion of the statute. <br />II. Definitions. <br />e For the purposes of this rule the capitalized words or phrases will have <br />the following meaning: <br />K <br />! (a)"Back-up Power" means electrical capacity and energy supplied by the <br />Department during an unscheduled outage of the Qualifying Facility to <br />. replace electricity ordinarily supplied by the Qualifying Facility's own <br />generation equipment (fromFERCrules, 18 CFR Part 292.101). <br />(b) '"Billing Period" means the period of time between two consecutive <br />meter readings for purposes of calculating payments due the Qualifying <br />I f <br />Facility. <br />(c) "Capacity" means thespecificamount of electrical power delivered by <br />F a Qualifying Facility to the Department during the 'periods of peak elec- <br />trical usage by the Department's customers. <br />t (d) "Council" means the City Council of Colton. <br />I_ - <br />c <br />I � <br />