From the the ACP for Regional Materials, it says "Products shipped by rail or water have been extracted, harvested or recovered, as well as manufactured within 500 miles total travel distance of the project site using a weighted average formula." The supplier present a Bill of Lading which shows the location of their warehouse to final destination of the product in their local office. This is our first time to document this and we would like to ask your help on how do we measure the distance from one point to another. Thanks a lot.
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Trista Brown
Project DirectorWSP USA
456 thumbs up
July 26, 2013 - 2:58 pm
Hi Mary Ann,
I haven't used this ACP before, but I think you could measure distance as the crow flies, just like you would under the normal compliance path. The weighted average divisors for rail and water sort of indicate that you need the actual miles traveled by the product, but that isn't how distance is tracked for the normal compliance path so I don't see why you'd need to do that for the ACP. Sorry I don't have a more definitive answer! Maybe someone else has used this ACP and can chime in.
I would also caution that to meet the credit requirements, the material itself must be extracted within 500 miles in addition to being manufactured within 500 miles. I wasn't sure if the product met this requirement from your post.
Trista
Katherine Ann Resurreccion
Arcadis Philippines, Inc.159 thumbs up
July 29, 2013 - 11:09 pm
Thank you Trista. But the ACP as I understood, might be applicable to project as this new option allows you to do a prorated calculation based on the lower relative impact of shipping materials by rail or water. Since we do not have any additional supporting doc aside from the Bill of Lading, we measure the distance through Google Map from the Mill Warehouse to Final Destination of product. And using the formula by sea which is divided by 15 we arrived at less than 500 miles. This is how I interpret the ACP, I'm not sure if what we did is the right thing to do. Please guide us.
Trista Brown
Project DirectorWSP USA
456 thumbs up
July 30, 2013 - 1:35 pm
That sounds like the right way to approach it to me! I'd also include any ground transport just to be sure the entire distance is covered. Definitely let us know how this works out after you get review comments back.