Treatment of Comments Received During the Protocols Development Process

This document presents the public comments that were received during the Evaluators' Protocols development process and addresses the changes that have occurred or not occurred, as a result of the Joint Staff review of the comments received. This document is presented in three sections. The first section provides background information on the Protocols development process. The second section presents a summary of the treatment of the comments received during the first round of Protocols development efforts in which the Impact, M&V, Process, Market Effects, Sampling and Reporting Protocols were developed. The last section presents a summary of the treatment of the comments received during the second round of Protocol development efforts in which the Codes and Standards Protocol, the Emerging Technology Program Evaluation Protocol and the Effective Useful Life Evaluation Protocols were developed. The comment treatment summary contains the following information: a summary of the comments received, an identification of the organization (including in some cases the individual making the comment,) a brief discussion of the changes made or an indication that no change was made as a result of the comment, and a brief review of why a change was made or not made.