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practices to cover all necessary aspects of wind turbine design covered by
the BOEMRE goal-based standards and to rectify any areas of noncon-
formance with the BOEMRE requirements.
To streamline the regulatory compliance process and provide a level
of regulatory certainty to the developer, the committee recommends that
BOEMRE be prepared to review the packages of Guidelines proposed by
a rulemaking or standards development body in the light of BOEMRE's
goal-based standards before their application to any particular project.
The review process would proceed as follows:
1. The rulemaking body develops a package of Guidelines conforming to
the BOEMRE goal-based standards along with the underlying docu-
mentation and analysis. Examples of standards, rules, industry guide-
lines, and recommended practices that could be considered are those
developed by GL, DNV, and ABS, or the standards and recommended
practices currently being developed by the American Wind Energy
Association.
2. When it submits its package of Guidelines for approval, the rulemaking
body shall provide documentation and analysis demonstrating that the
standards, rules, industry guidelines, and recommended practices con-
tained in the package fulfill all the requirements of the BOEMRE goal-
based standards, or it shall clearly identify which requirements are not
covered by its package of Guidelines.
3. BOEMRE reviews the package of Guidelines and the underlined docu-
mentation and analysis for conformance with the goal-based standards.
Once compliance is ascertained, BOEMRE publishes notification of its
approval of the package of Guidelines. If the package Guidelines does
not fully cover BOEMRE requirements, any deficiencies that must be
covered by other standards, rules, industry guidelines, and recom-
mended practices should be identified in the notification.
Alternatively, a developer should be permitted to identify a package of
Guidelines that will be apply to a specific project, along with the underly-
ing documentation and analysis, and BOEMRE should be prepared to
review and approve such packages on a case-by-case basis. This process is
anticipated to take longer than would use of preapproved packages of
Guidelines, but it will allow for the introduction of novel concepts that