R25-3     Hire North Carolina List

Each utility shall maintain a Hire North Carolina list consisting of resident contractors, including women- and minority-owned businesses, determined by the utility to be qualified to perform contracts within the scope of proposed utility projects. The utility shall publish on its website a notice requesting names of qualified resident contractors. A contractor wishing to be included on the Hire North Carolina list may certify to the utility that the contractor is a resident contractor as defined in Rule R25‑1 above by any means the utility deems reasonable. Upon such certification, the utility shall add said contractor to the Hire North Carolina list.

(NCUC Docket No. M-100, Sub 154, 06/18/2019.)