3.4.5 Modification of the Small Generating Facility The must receive written authorization from the utility before making changes to the SGF or mode of operations that may have a material impact on the safety or reliability of the utility system or affected system. Such authorization shall not be unreasonably withheld. Modifications shall be done in accordance with Good Utility Practice. If the IC makes such modifications without the utility's prior written authorization, the latter shall have the right to temporarily disconnect the SGF. 3.4.6 Reconnection The Parties shall cooperate with each other to restore the SGF, , and the utility system to their normal operating state as soon as reasonably practicable following a temporary disconnection. Article 4. Cost Responsibility for Customer's Interconnection Facilities, Attachment Facilities, and Distribution Upgrades 4.1 Customer's Interconnection Facilities The IC shall be responsible for the costs associated with owning, operating, maintaining, repairing, and replacing the Customer's Interconnection Facilities. 4.2 Attachment Facilities The IC shall pay for one-time and ongoing costs of installing, owning, operating, maintaining and replacing the itemized in Attachment 2 of this Agreement. The utility shall provide an estimated costfor the purchase and construction of the and provide a detailed itemization of such costs. Costs associated with may be shared with other entities that may benefit from such facilities by agreement of the IC, such other entities, and the utility. 4.3 Distribution upgrades
"Distribution upgrades" means the additions, modifications, and to the utility's distribution system at or the point of interconnection necessary to abate problems on the utility's distribution system caused by the interconnection of the small generating facility. Distribution upgrades do not include customer's interconnection facilities or attachment facilities. "Facilities study" has the meaning ascribed to it in the Commission's regulations governing the interconnection of small generating facilities at 20VAC5-314-70 E. "Feasibility study" has the meaning ascribed to it in the Commission's regulations governing the interconnection of small generating facilities at 20VAC5-314-70 C. "FERC" means the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. "Good utility practice" means any of the practices, methods and acts engaged in or approved by a significant portion of the electric industry during the relevant time period, or any of the practices, methods and acts which, in the exercise of reasonable judgment in light of the facts known at the time the decision was made, could have been expected to accomplish the desired result at a reasonable cost consistent with good business practices, reliability, safety and expedition. Good utility practice is not intended to be limited to the optimum practice, method, or act to the exclusion of all others, but rather to practices, methods, or acts generally accepted in the region. "Governmental authority" means any federal, state, local or other governmental regulatory or administrative agency, court, commission, department, board, or other governmental subdivision, legislature, rulemaking board, tribunal, or other governmental authority having jurisdiction over the Parties, their respective facilities, or the respective services they provide, and exercising or entitled to exercise any administrative, executive, police, or taxing authority or power; provided that such term does not include the Interconnection Customer, the utility, or a utility affiliate.