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Reference Manual and Procedures for Implementation of the “PURPA Standards” in the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007

This is intended to be used as an aid to state commissions and utilities as they consider the federal standards that are part of the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007. This is an update of the 1979 "Reference Manual and Procedures for Implementing PURPA" that provided assistance to commissions and utilities when they were implementing the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act (PURPA) of 1978 and the 2006 "Reference Manual and Procedures for Implementation of the 'PURPA Standards' in the Energy Policy Act of 2005." This manual is sponsored, as the 1979 and 2006 manuals were also, by the American Public Power Association (APPA), the Edison Electric Institute (EEI), the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC), and the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA).

The "American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009" (ARRA), also know as the "Stimulus Bill," corrected mistakes contained in the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 (EISA). These mistakes occurred in the sections that added four new standards to the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 ("PURPA"). The relevant EISA sections are in the Appendix of the "Reference Manual and Procedures for Implementation of the 'PURPA Standards' in the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007" (EISA standards manual), released on August 11, 2008. Section 1 of the EISA standards manual contains a discussion of the errors and implementation impact for state commissions and nonregulated utilities.

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