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Project Information
Current Statement Period
Is the facility receiving Renewable Energy Credits?
What percentage of Average Annual Generation is enrolled? (If there are multiple facilities, please list the percentage enrolled for each facility).
In which market is the facility enrolled?
If you chose Other, please indicate the market here.
REC Class (if applicable)
Please complete all questions below and sign/date at the end.
1. Has the facility received a new FERC License, material amendment to a license, or exemption, new or amended water quality certificate or other permit or authorization?
a) Temporary or permanent changes in facilities, equipment, or operations?
b) Formal agency recommendations or regulatory orders issued related to any LIHI criterion?
c) Notices of regulatory violation or non-compliance received from any government agency related to any LIHI criterion?
d) Complaints from stakeholders received related to the facility’s certification or to any of the LIHI criterion?
e) Other special circumstances or newly identified issues of concern that have arisen?
If you responded Yes to any item in 2.a - 2.e, please describe and attach all relevant documents via the File Upload at the end of this form.
3. Did you experience any unplanned operational deviations or environmental upsets?
If you responded Yes, please describe these circumstances and attach all relevant communications and documents via the File Upload at the end of this form.
4. Have there been any other temporary or permanent changes at the facility in operations related to the LIHI criteria below and/or any voluntary improvements made or actions taken to reduce the facility's impacts?
a) Ecological Flow Regimes
d) Downstream Fish Passage and Protection
e) Watershed and Shoreline Protection
f) Threatened and Endangered Species Protection
g) Cultural and Historic Resources Protection
h) Recreational Resources
If you responded Yes to any item in 4.a - 4.h, please describe below and attach relevant documentation via the File Upload at the end of this form.
5. Have there been any changes in the surrounding watershed that directly affect the facility, including:
a) Changes at upstream or downstream facilities (e.g., dam removals, installation of new fish passage, or new FERC license at other facilities)?
b) Flooding or erosion events that significantly altered river hydrology and/or facility operations?
c) Changes in state or tribal water quality status in facility-affected reaches?
d) Changes in river designation (e.g., Wild and Scenic River, newly protected status)?
e) Newly identified threatened or endangered species at the facility including a newly issued biological opinion for species?
f) Changes in cultural or historic property designations affected by the facility?
g) Other changes in the watershed?
If you reponded Yes to any item in 5.a - 5.g, please describe below and attach relevant documentation via the File Upload at the end of this form.
6. Have there been any changes in any federal, state, regional, or local regulation, policy, or management plan that directly affects the facility and is likely to change the nature or extent of impacts related to the LIHI criteria, including:
a) Instream Flow Policies?
b) State or tribal water quality standards or other water-related regulations?
c) Fishery or other resource management plans?
d) Threatened and endangered species biological opinions or recovery plans?
e) Regional, state, or local recreation policies or plans?
f) Other regulations, policies, or management plans?
If you responded Yes to any item in 6.a - 6.f, please describe below and attach relevant documentation via the File Upload at the end of this form.
7. Did you report to LIHI any violations or changes that relate to, or impact, any LIHI criterion or LIHI Certification requirements during this compliance year?
8. Do you use the LIHI Certified(R) logo in marketing materials, press releases, or on your website?
9. Are there any active conditions attached to this certificate? Conditions can be accessed by scrolling down the Certified Facility webpage and selecting the project name to view to the project webpage. Conditions are listed in the Compliance Status Section.
Please review the project's Certificate Conditions on the project webpage and summarize the status of each Condition in the spaces provided. Indicate “no change” if applicable. Submit any supplemental documentation needed and list those attachments below. If a status update was previously submitted during the current compliance year, provide the date and indicate below if there has been any change in status since that submittal.
1. Please summarize the status of the condition in the space provided. Indicate 'No change' if applicable.
Is there another condition to report on?
2. Please summarize the status of the condition in the space provided. Indicate 'No change' if applicable.
Is there another condition to report on?
3. Please summarize the status of the condition in the space provided. Indicate 'No change' if applicable.
Is there another condition to report on?
4. Please summarize the status of the condition in the space provided. Indicate 'No change' if applicable.
Is there another condition to report on?
5. Please summarize the status of the condition in the space provided. Indicate 'No change' if applicable.
Is there another condition to report on?
6. Please summarize the status of the condition in the space provided. Indicate 'No change' if applicable.
Please upload any supplemental materials identified in all sections above, needed to demonstrate compliance during the statement period.
I understand that this annual statement is in addition to, and not in lieu of, my responsibility to report any violations or changes that may relate to, or impact, any LIHI Criterion or LIHI Certification requirements during the course of the compliance year.
I understand that this annual statement is a requirement for continued Low Impact Certification, and that any material misrepresentation of fact may result in revocation of the LIHI Certificate.
