Amend the joint resolution, as and if amended, page 9, by adding an appropriately numbered new SECTION to read:
/ SECTION __. In addition to the experimental rate provided pursuant to this joint resolution, and in order to supplement this rate and to further achieve the public policies outlined above, the Public Service Commission shall (1) determine what contract length for power purchase agreements between electrical utilities and qualifying facilities (as defined in the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act (Pub.L. 95-617, 92 Stat. 3117) (PURPA) is necessary to give such facilities a reasonable opportunity to attract capital; (2) adopt model power purchase agreements for such transactions that contain commercially reasonable terms and conditions, including a prohibition on the uncompensated curtailment of qualifying facilities except as authorized by PURPA; (3) require SCANA to compensate a qualifying facility for all capacity costs avoided by the utility as a result of the construction and operation of the facility; and (4) prohibit SCANA from charging or reducing the price paid to a qualifying facility based on costs incurred by SCANA to respond to the intermittent nature of electrical generation by the facility. /
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