Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2016C00262:clause:1_16:p1
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2016C00262
Segment Type: clause
Provision Reference: sch 1 cl 16 (pt 1/2)
Character Range: 45596–48397

16  Choosing production variables for facilities—output variables
 (1) Subject to subsections (2) and (3) and section 17, the project proponent must choose the following to be a production variable for a facility to which the project relates:
 (a) if the facility has one output variable only over the baseline period—that variable;
 (b) if the facility has more than one output variable over the baseline period—each original output variable.
 (1A) A project proponent must make the choices in subsection 16(2) and section 17 before applying under section 22 of the Act based upon data available at the time of application and may only remake those choices if, after the end of the baseline period, the project proponent's original choices would no longer meet the requirements of subsection 16(2) and section 17.

Similar output variables during the baseline period
 (2) If:
 (a) 2 or more of a facility's output variables (the similar output variables) can be quantified using the same unit of measurement; and
 (b) the emissions per unit of production of each of the similar output variables are materially similar; and
 (c) at least one of the similar output variables is an original output variable;
the project proponent may choose the similar output variables to be a single production variable for the facility instead of choosing each original output variable to be a separate production variable for the facility.
Note: This allows for certain output variables produced after the first year of the baseline period to be included as a production variable with one or more original output variables. If the facility has other original output variables that are not similar output variables, the project proponent must also choose the other original output variables to be production variables for the facility (see paragraph (1)(b)).

New output variables after end of baseline period
 (3) If:
 (a) during an NGER reporting year a facility starts to produce or process an output variable (the new output variable) not produced or processed by the facility during the project's baseline period; and
 (b) the project proponent has not chosen an input, or intermediate product, to be a production variable for the facility under section 17; and
 (c) the new output variable is quantified using the same unit of measurement as an existing production variable (the similar production variable); and
 (d) the average emissions per unit of the new output variable over the first full NGER reporting year after it is introduced is, or is reasonably expected to be, no less than 95% of the average emissions per unit of the similar production variable over the most recent NGER reporting year in which the similar production variable was produced;
the project proponent may, subject to subsection (4),