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Northern States Power Company, a Minnesota corporation Minneapolis, Minnesota 55401 MINNESOTA ELECTRIC RATE BOOK - MPUC NO. 2 STANDARD CONTRACT FOR SOLAR*REWARDS COMMUNITY (Continued) 6. Community Solar Garden Requirements. Section No. 9 2nd Revised Sheet No. 76 A. The Community Solar Garden Operator shall assure that each of the Community Solar Garden Statutory Requirements is met. B. For each Subscriber, there must be a completed and fully -executed Subscriber Agency Agreement and Consent Form (Attachment "A" to this Contract) which is delivered to the Company prior to the Date of Commercial Operation, or prior to adding each Subscriber. C. Code Compliance. The Community Solar Garden Operator shall be responsible for ensuring that the PV System equipment installed at the Community Solar Garden meets all applicable codes, standards, and regulatory requirements at the time of installation and throughout its operation. D. Project Completion. The Company will determine whether an application from the Community Solar Garden Operator is complete within thirty (30) days of its submission to the Company and approve or reject the application based on engineering review within sixty (60) days of finding it complete unless the Community Solar Garden Operator has agreed to an extension. The date an application shall be considered to be submitted to the Company is the date on which the Community Solar Garden Operator has uploaded to the CSG Application System all documents and information to allow the Company to begin engineering review which include the following: (i) the contact information for the Community Solar Garden Operator, (i i) the Community Solar Garden information, including system location and specifications, (iii) application fee and deposit, and, (iv) engineering documents, including one line diagram, site plan and signed Interconnection application. Where the Company has timely rejected an application, the Company will allow the Community Solar Garden Operator to provide additional documents or information and the sixty (60) day timeframe will begin anew for the Company to acceptor reject the application. The Community Solar Garden Operator shall achieve Mechanical Completion of the project within the later of twenty-four (24) months from August 6, 2015 or the Company finding that the application is Expedited Ready. Failure of the Company to meet the timeframes for completing engineering studies and interconnection cost estimates set forth in the Commission's September 28, 2004 Order in Docket No. E999/CI-01-1023 as implemented in Section 10 of the Company's rate book will extend this twenty-four (24) month period on a day -for -day basis. Day -for -day extensions will also be applied to the extent the application is the subject of an Independent Engineer review (Section 9, Sheets 68.11-68.13) or to the extent it is directly delayed as the result of an Independent Engineer review for another application in the same Study Queue. (Continued on Sheet No. 9-76.1) Date Filed: 12-01-16 By: Christopher B. Clark Effective Date: 09-06-16 President, Northern States Power Company, a Minnesota corporation Docket No. E002/M-13-867 Order Date: 09-06-16 C C C C C C