NWSS Monitoring-Period Verification and Close-out Workflow

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Once a registered project’s monitoring period has ended, its claims are verified in turn: service delivery always, separation quality where the period holds separation or contamination observations, diversion where the design claims a diverted stream and the period’s mass flow is closed at every facility. Approved reviews make the period’s observations approved claims, the substance of every reported indicator. A record submitted after the period’s latest service delivery review is marked submitted after review: kept, and it does not reopen the period. A late observation, one whose service period had already closed when it was submitted, changes no fixed status (ADR-0005).

flowchart TB
    mv_s1["End the monitoring period"]
    mv_s2["Verify service delivery"]
    mv_s3["Verify separation quality"]
    mv_s4["Verify diversion"]
    mv_s5["Close out the period"]
    mv_s1 --> mv_s2
    mv_s2 --> mv_s3
    mv_s3 --> mv_s4
    mv_s4 --> mv_s5

  1. End the monitoring period
  2. Verify service delivery
  3. Verify separation quality
  4. Verify diversion
  5. Close out the period

The process graph

Every workflow, step and check the file states, and how they connect.

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1. End the monitoring period

The period belongs to a registered project version and its end has passed. Records observed in it are its evidence.

Prerequisite checks

The period’s project design is an approved, registered project version

Smart function check.

Completion checks

The period’s end lies before the ledger’s present time

Smart function check.

2. Verify service delivery

Seat: any reviewer meeting the verification-review KSR rules of nwss-vvr:verify-service-delivery-claim who observed no contributing record and collected no contributing round (ADR-0012). The reviewer checks that service statuses are derived, not captured, that unscheduled observations are left out of plan compliance, and that restatements and withdrawals carry reasons.

Prerequisite checks

No service delivery review of the period is by an observer of a contributing round, follow-up or evaluation record or by a collector of a contributing round (the reputation requirement is the platform’s to enforce)

Smart function check.

Completion checks

The latest review of the period under verify-service-delivery-claim is approved

Smart function check.

3. Verify separation quality

Seat: any reviewer meeting the KSR rules of nwss-vvr:verify-separation-quality-claim who evaluated, audited or collected nothing that contributes. Applies where the period holds separation quality or contamination observations. Conditional: holds vacuously where it does not apply.

Prerequisite checks

No separation quality review of the period is by an observer of a contributing evaluation, audit or round record or by a collector of a contributing round (the reputation requirement is the platform’s to enforce)

Smart function check.

Completion checks

Where the period holds separation observations, the latest review of the period under verify-separation-quality-claim is approved; any other period passes

Smart function check.

4. Verify diversion

Seat: any reviewer meeting the KSR rules of nwss-vvr:verify-diversion-claim, with its higher material recovery threshold, who observed no contributing weighing or destination record. Applies where the design claims a diverted stream; ready only once the period’s mass flow is closed at every facility of the design (ADR-0008). Conditional: holds vacuously where no diversion is claimed.

Prerequisite checks

No diversion review of the period is by an observer of a contributing weighing, offtake, treatment or disposal record (the reputation requirement, with its higher material recovery threshold, is the platform’s to enforce)

Smart function check.

Every separation stream weighed in during the period at a facility of the design’s service areas has a destination record at that facility for that stream, not withdrawn, dated in the period

Smart function check.

Completion checks

Where the design claims diversion, the latest review of the period under verify-diversion-claim is approved; any other period passes

Smart function check.

5. Close out the period

Terminal: every verification that applies is approved and every observation on a contributing record, other than a withdrawn one or one submitted after the latest service delivery review, is an approved claim. Records submitted after review are marked, never refused.

Prerequisite checks

Completion checks

The latest service delivery review is approved, and every observation on a contributing record of the period, unless the record is withdrawn or was submitted after that review, is an approved claim

Smart function check.

Marking checks

Marks a contributing record of the period submitted after the period’s latest service delivery review as submitted after review: kept, and it does not reopen the period. Not a late observation, which is judged against the closure of the record’s service period (ADR-0005)

Smart function check.

Review requirements

No review requirement in the corpus names a record this workflow produces.

This page explains the standard and does not decide conformance: only the released corpus does. It describes dataRequirements/process-graphs/monitoring-verification-process.ttl at standard version 0.1.0-dev.