---
kind: "section"
citation: "7 C.F.R. § 1710.207"
title: "7"
number: "1710.207"
heading: "RUS criteria for load forecasts by distribution borrowers."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/7/1710.207"
---

# §1710.207. RUS criteria for load forecasts by distribution borrowers.


Load forecasts submitted by distribution borrowers that are unaffiliated with a power supply borrower, or by distribution borrowers that are members of a power supply borrower that has a total utility plant less than $500 million and that is not itself a member of another power supply borrower with a total utility plant of $500 million or more must satisfy the following minimum criteria:

- (a) The borrower considered all known relevant factors that influence the consumption of electricity and the known number of consumers served at the time the study was developed;
- (b) The borrower considered and identified all loads on its system of RE Act beneficiaries and non-RE Act beneficiaries;
- (c) The borrower developed an adequate supporting data base and considered a range of relevant assumptions; and
- (d) The borrower provided RUS with adequate documentation and assistance to allow for a thorough and independent review.

## Notes

### Amendments

[65 FR 14786, Mar. 20, 2000, as amended at 84 FR 32611, July 9, 2019]

### Source

Source: 65 FR 14786, Mar. 20, 2000, unless otherwise noted.

### Authority

Authority: 7 U.S.C. 901 et seq., 1921 et seq., and 6941 et seq.

### Source

Source: 57 FR 1053, Jan. 9, 1992, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[65 FR 14786, Mar. 20, 2000, as amended at 84 FR 32611, July 9, 2019]