2 Supervision and Management of Acceptance

2.0.1 The Ministry of Water Resources is in charge of the guidance on the supervision and management of the acceptances of nationwide small hydropower projects. According to prescribed limits of authority, the water administrative authorities of local people's governments at or above county level are responsible for supervision and management of acceptance of small hydropower project construction in their administrative areas.

2.0.2 According to the provisions of different levels of administration for local small hydropower projects, the water administrative authorities of local people's governments at all levels shall take charge of or participate in the government acceptances of small hydropower projects in their administrative areas, and undertake the supervision and management for the acceptance conducted by the legal person.

2.0.3 The approaches by which acceptances are supervised and managed shall include site inspection, organizing or participating in acceptance activities, filing acceptance work plan and output documents, etc.

If necessary, water administrative authorities and supervision and management organization for legal person acceptances shall take on-site inspections to the constructed projects and check the progress in the acceptance, and also make an investigation whenever any offence is reported.

2.0.4 The supervision and management for an acceptance shall include the following contents：

1 Whether the acceptance is in time.

2 Whether the acceptance meets the requirements.

3 Whether the composition of staff for acceptance meets the provisions.

4 Whether the acceptance procedure meets the specification.

5 Whether the acceptance documents are complete.

6 Whether the acceptance conclusion is clearly stated.

2.0.5 The authority being responsible for supervision and management shall make requirements to the presiding organization for a correction in a timely manner when an acceptance of project fails to meet the relevant rules and regulations. If necessary, the supervision and management authority may make a request to suspend the acceptance temporarily or redoing it and report to the presiding organization at the same time.

2.0.6 The authority being responsible for supervision and management for the acceptances conducted by the legal person shall check the received documents for the record, and ask the relative institutions to make correction, supplementation or completion if the document is deemed unqualified.

2.0.7 Project legal person shall prepare a working plan of acceptance 60 working days prior to the acceptance of first unit and report to the supervision and management authority for the record. If adjustment is made to the project construction plan, the working plan of acceptance shall also be updated and put on record again. The working plan shall include brief introduction of the project, project division, construction schedule and acceptance plan.

2.0.8 Technical problems found in the legal person acceptance shall in principle be settled according to the contract. If the pro visions in the contract are not clear, the problems shall be settled according to the technical standards of the country. If no technical standards are available, the supervision and management authority for the legal person acceptance shall be responsible for a coordinated solution.