SECTION 155:30-5-4. Performance criteria for state approved verifiers

  State approved verifiers shall do the following:

(1)   Have no financial or pecuniary interest in the project they are verifying;

(2)   Perform verification only on project scopes and geographies that they are qualified for and authorized to conduct by the Commission;

(3)   Conduct verification in accordance with verification criteria, standards, protocols, or agreements established or approved by the Commission;

(4)   Certify on forms provided by the Commission that offsets have or have not occurred as claimed;

(5)   Evaluate project reports, documentation, and summary reports as required by the Commission;

(6)   Establish and implement protocols acceptable to the Commission for conducting verification and reporting the results;

(7)   Maintain transparent records on the methods and assumptions used to develop, calculate, and conduct verification of projects to the degree that the methods and assumptions are independently verifiable to other interested persons; and

(8)   Provide copies of all required verification reports and supporting documentation or materials to the Commission in accordance with Commission established and approved procedures.

[Source: (For information about related emergency rules, see Editor’s Note at beginning of Chapter); Added at 26 Ok Reg 1388, eff 7-1-09]