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AK Stat § 42.05.775 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 42. Public Utilities and Carriers and Energy Programs|Chapter 05. Alaska Public Utilities Regulatory Act|Article 10. Electric Reliability Organizations, Plans, and Standards.|Sec. 42.05.775. Penalties.

(a) An electric reliability organization may impose a penalty on a user, owner, or operator of an interconnected electric energy transmission network for a violation of a reliability standard if, after notice and a hearing, the electric reliability organization (1) finds that the user, owner, or operator has violated a reliability standard; and (2) files notice of the proposed penalty and the record of the proceeding with the commission at least 30 days before imposition of the penalty. (b) The commission may, on its own motion or upon complaint, order a user, owner, or operator of an interconnected electric energy transmission network to comply with a reliability standard and impose a penalty against the user, owner, or operator if the commission finds, after notice and a hearing, that the user, owner, or operator has engaged or is about to engage in an act or practice that violates a reliability standard. (c) A user, owner, or operator may appeal to the commission a penalty imposed under (a) of this section. The commission may, on its own motion, review a penalty imposed under (a) of this section. The commission shall, after notice and a hearing, issue an order affirming, modifying, reinstating, or revoking the penalty or remand the penalty to the electric reliability organization for further proceedings. Unless otherwise ordered by the commission, a penalty shall remain in effect during proceedings under this subsection. The commission shall expedite proceedings under this subsection. (d) A penalty imposed under this section must bear a reasonable relation to the seriousness of the violation and take into consideration the effort of a user, owner, or operator to remedy the violation in a timely manner.
AK Stat § 42.05.785 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 42. Public Utilities and Carriers and Energy Programs|Chapter 05. Alaska Public Utilities Regulatory Act|Article 10. Electric Reliability Organizations, Plans, and Standards.|Sec. 42.05.785. Project preapproval for large energy facilities.

(a) A public utility, including a public utility that is exempt from other regulation under AS 42.05.711 or another provision of this chapter, that is interconnected with an interconnected electric energy transmission network served by an electric reliability organization certificated by the commission may not construct a large energy facility unless the commission determines that the facility (1) is necessary to the interconnected electric energy transmission network with which it would be interconnected; (2) complies with reliability standards; and (3) would, in a cost-effective manner, meet the needs of a load-serving entity that is substantially served by the facility. (b) Unless the commission finds otherwise by clear and convincing evidence, a large energy facility that was included in the most recent integrated resource plan approved under AS 42.05.780 is considered to satisfy the requirements of (a) of this section. (c) The commission may not require preapproval for a (1) project for refurbishment or capitalized maintenance; (2) hydropower project licensed by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission before September 30, 2016. (d) The commission shall adopt regulations (1) governing project preapproval; (2) defining refurbishment and capitalized maintenance; (3) maintaining municipal jurisdiction over local planning decisions; and (4) addressing projects undertaken before integrated resource plan approval for an interconnected electric energy transmission network. (e) In this section, “large energy facility” means (1) an electric power generating plant or combination of plants at a single site with a combined capacity of 15,000 kilowatts or more with transmission lines that directly interconnect the plant with the transmission system; (2) a high-voltage, above-ground transmission line that (A) has a capacity of 69 kilovolts or more; and (B) is longer than 10 miles; (3) a high-voltage submarine or underground cable that (A) has a capacity of 69 kilovolts or more; and (B) is longer than three miles; (4) an energy storage device or combination of devices at a single site with a combined capacity of 15,000 kilowatts and one hour or more of energy storage that directly connects with the interconnected bulk-electric system; and (5) a reactive compensation device or combination of devices at a single site with a combined reactive capability of 15,000 kilovars or more with a step-up device to regulate interconnected bulk-electric system voltage.
AK Stat § 42.05.790 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 42. Public Utilities and Carriers and Energy Programs|Chapter 05. Alaska Public Utilities Regulatory Act|Article 10. Electric Reliability Organizations, Plans, and Standards.|Sec. 42.05.790. Definitions.

In AS 42.05.760 - 42.05.790, (1) “cybersecurity incident” means a malicious act or suspicious event that disrupts or attempts to disrupt the security of data or the operation of programmable electronic devices and communication networks, including hardware and software that are essential to the reliable operation of the interconnected electric energy transmission network; (2) “electric reliability organization” means an organization that is certificated by the commission under AS 42.05.760; (3) “electric utility” means a public utility that provides electricity service; (4) “interconnected bulk-electric system” means an interconnected electric energy transmission network that includes two or more load-serving entities, at least one of which is subject to the provisions of AS 42.05.291; (5) “interconnected electric energy transmission network” means a network of interconnected electrical generation resources, transmission lines, interconnections, and associated equipment operated at voltages of 69 kilovolts or more, operating in a geographic area that are synchronized so that the failure of one or more of the components may adversely affect the ability of the operators of other components within the system to maintain reliable operation of the facilities within the control of the operators; (6) “load-serving entity” means an electric utility that has a service obligation to distribute power to more than 10 customers that receive invoices directly from the entity; (7) “reliable operation” means operating the elements of the interconnected electric energy transmission network within equipment and electric system thermal, voltage, and stability limits so that instability, uncontrolled separation, or cascading failures of the system will not occur as a result of a sudden disturbance, including a cybersecurity incident, or unanticipated failure of system elements.
AK Stat § 42.05.800 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 42. Public Utilities and Carriers and Energy Programs|Chapter 05. Alaska Public Utilities Regulatory Act|Article 11. Competitive Intrastate Long Distance Telephone Service.|Sec. 42.05.800. Findings.

The legislature finds that (1) modern, affordable, efficient, and universally available local and long distance telephone service is essential to the people of the state; (2) facilities based, long distance telephone service should be provided competitively wherever possible; (3) technological advances, reduced costs, and increased consumer choices for long distance telephone service, resulting from the adoption of an appropriate competitive market structure, will enhance the state's economic development; (4) the benefits of competition in long distance telephone service should be shared by consumers throughout the state; (5) the commission should oversee competition in long distance telephone service to ensure that the competition is fair to consumers and competitors; (6) the commission should provide for competition in a timely manner and should adopt regulations that eliminate inappropriate impediments to entry for long distance carriers fit, willing, and able to provide service.
AK Stat § 42.05.820 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 42. Public Utilities and Carriers and Energy Programs|Chapter 05. Alaska Public Utilities Regulatory Act|Article 11. Competitive Intrastate Long Distance Telephone Service.|Sec. 42.05.820. No municipal regulation.

A long distance telephone company or a local exchange carrier that is exempted in whole or in part from complying with all or a portion of this chapter may not be regulated by a municipality under AS 29.35.060 and 29.35.070.
AK Stat § 42.05.830 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 42. Public Utilities and Carriers and Energy Programs|Chapter 05. Alaska Public Utilities Regulatory Act|Article 11. Competitive Intrastate Long Distance Telephone Service.|Sec. 42.05.830. Exchange access charges.

In providing for competition under AS 42.05.800 - 42.05.890, the commission shall establish a system of access charges to be paid by long distance carriers to compensate local exchange carriers for the cost of originating and terminating long distance services.
AK Stat § 42.05.840 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 42. Public Utilities and Carriers and Energy Programs|Chapter 05. Alaska Public Utilities Regulatory Act|Article 11. Competitive Intrastate Long Distance Telephone Service.|Sec. 42.05.840. Universal service fund.

The commission may establish a universal service fund or other mechanism to be used to ensure the provision of long distance telephone service at reasonable rates throughout the state and to otherwise preserve universal service.
AK Stat § 42.05.850 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 42. Public Utilities and Carriers and Energy Programs|Chapter 05. Alaska Public Utilities Regulatory Act|Article 11. Competitive Intrastate Long Distance Telephone Service.|Sec. 42.05.850. Exchange carrier association.

The commission may require the local exchange carriers to form an association to assist in administering the system of access charges and may require the association to file tariffs and to engage in pooling of exchange access costs and revenue if necessary to achieve the purposes of AS 42.05.800 - 42.05.890.
AK Stat § 42.05.860 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 42. Public Utilities and Carriers and Energy Programs|Chapter 05. Alaska Public Utilities Regulatory Act|Article 11. Competitive Intrastate Long Distance Telephone Service.|Sec. 42.05.860. Restrictions on resale of telecommunications services prohibited.

A telephone company may not prohibit or restrict the resale of telecommunications service. If an interexchange telecommunications service is resold, the reseller shall receive credit in an appropriate amount for an applicable exchange access charge if the credit is necessary to prevent double payment of the access charges.
AK Stat § 42.05.890 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 42. Public Utilities and Carriers and Energy Programs|Chapter 05. Alaska Public Utilities Regulatory Act|Article 11. Competitive Intrastate Long Distance Telephone Service.|Sec. 42.05.890. Definitions.

In AS 42.05.800 - 42.05.890, (1) “local exchange carrier” means any carrier certificated to provide local telephone services; (2) “long distance carrier” or “long distance telephone company” means any carrier certificated to provide long distance telephone services; (3) “long distance telephone service” or “long distance service” means intrastate, interexchange telephone service.
AK Stat § 42.05.995 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 42. Public Utilities and Carriers and Energy Programs|Chapter 05. Alaska Public Utilities Regulatory Act|Article 12. General Provisions.|Sec. 42.05.995. Short title.

This chapter may be cited as the Alaska Public Utilities Regulatory Act.
AK Stat § 42.06.055 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 42. Public Utilities and Carriers and Energy Programs|Chapter 06. Pipeline Act|Article 1. Powers and Duties of Regulatory Commission of Alaska.|Sec. 42.06.055. Commission decision-making procedures.

The commission shall comply with AS 42.04.080 for matters that come before the commission for decision.
AK Stat § 42.06.140 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 42. Public Utilities and Carriers and Energy Programs|Chapter 06. Pipeline Act|Article 1. Powers and Duties of Regulatory Commission of Alaska.|Sec. 42.06.140. General powers and duties.

(a) The commission (1) shall regulate pipelines and pipeline carriers in the state; (2) may investigate upon complaint or its own motion, the rates, classifications, rules, regulations, prices, services, practices, and facilities of pipeline carriers, and the performance of obligations under and compliance with the terms of leases issued by the state; (3) may make, prescribe, or require just, fair, and reasonable rates, classifications, regulations, practices, services, and facilities for pipeline carriers; (4) may require pipeline carriers and affiliated interests to file with the commission reports and other information and data required or permitted to be required by other provisions of this chapter; (5) may adopt regulations that are necessary and proper to the performance of its duties under this chapter, including regulations governing practices and procedures of the commission; the regulations may not be inconsistent with state law; (6) shall during normal business hours have access to and may designate any of its employees, agents, or consultants to inspect and examine the accounts, financial and property records, books, maps, inventories, appraisals, valuations, and related reports kept by a pipeline carrier, or kept for it by others, that directly affect the interests of the state and directly relate to pipelines located in the state; (7) may initiate, intervene in, and appear personally or by counsel and offer evidence in and participate in, any proceedings involving a pipeline carrier and affecting the interests of the state, before any officer, department, board, commission, or court of this state; (8) shall require permits for the construction, enlargement in size or operating capacity, extension, connection and interconnection, operation or abandonment of any oil or gas pipeline facility or facilities, subject to necessary and reasonable terms, conditions and limitations; (9) may prescribe the system of accounts and regulate the service of an oil or gas pipeline facility; (10) shall provide all reasonable assistance to the Department of Law in intervening in, offering evidence in, and participating in proceedings involving a pipeline carrier or affiliated interest and affecting the interests of the state, before an officer, department, board, commission, or court of another state or the United States. (b) The commission may assign a qualified, unbiased, and impartial administrative law judge, with experience in the general practice of law, to conduct hearings under this chapter. The administrative law judge may perform other duties in connection with the administration of this chapter and other laws. An administrative law judge hired to conduct hearings under this chapter shall have been admitted to practice law for at least five years immediately before appointment under this subsection.
AK Stat § 42.06.150 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 42. Public Utilities and Carriers and Energy Programs|Chapter 06. Pipeline Act|Article 1. Powers and Duties of Regulatory Commission of Alaska.|Sec. 42.06.150. Powers and duties with respect to federally regulated carriers.

AS 42.06.140 applies to oil and gas pipeline carriers regulated under federal law only to the extent not preempted by federal law.
AK Stat § 42.06.210 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 42. Public Utilities and Carriers and Energy Programs|Chapter 06. Pipeline Act|Article 1. Powers and Duties of Regulatory Commission of Alaska.|Sec. 42.06.210. Publication of reports, orders, decisions, and regulations.

All reports, orders, decisions, and regulations of the commission shall be in writing. The commission shall apprise all affected operators of oil or gas pipeline facilities and interested parties of these reports, orders, decisions, and regulations as they are issued and adopted, and, when appropriate to do so, publish them in a manner that will reasonably inform the public or the affected consumers of the services of any oil or gas pipeline facility. The commission may set charges for costs of printing or reproducing and furnishing copies of its reports, orders, decisions, and regulations. The publication requirement, as it pertains to regulations, does not supersede the requirements of AS 44.62 (Administrative Procedure Act).
AK Stat § 42.06.220 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 42. Public Utilities and Carriers and Energy Programs|Chapter 06. Pipeline Act|Article 1. Powers and Duties of Regulatory Commission of Alaska.|Sec. 42.06.220. Annual report.

The commission shall, by November 15 of each year, publish an annual report reviewing its activities during the previous fiscal year and notify the legislature that the report is available. The report must address the regulation of oil and gas pipeline facilities in the state as of June 30 and must contain details about the commission's compliance with performance measures reported by the commission.
AK Stat § 42.06.230 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 42. Public Utilities and Carriers and Energy Programs|Chapter 06. Pipeline Act|Article 1. Powers and Duties of Regulatory Commission of Alaska.|Sec. 42.06.230. Jurisdiction of commission.

(a) Except as to jurisdiction of the Department of Law as provided by AS 42.06.140(a)(10), the jurisdiction and authority over the subject matter of this chapter is exclusively in the commission. To the extent that the performance of any duties of the commission affects a pipeline carrier or a pipeline subject to regulation under federal law, the performance of its duties may not, as to that pipeline carrier or pipeline, conflict with applicable federal laws, regulations, orders, or other requirements. (b) The commission's jurisdiction and authority extend to (1) an oil or gas pipeline facility operating in a municipality, whether home rule or otherwise; if a conflict between a certificate, order, decision, or regulation of the commission and a charter, permit, franchise, ordinance, rule, or regulation of such a local governmental entity occurs, the certificate, order, decision, or regulation of the commission prevails; and (2) the intrastate transportation of North Slope natural gas through a North Slope natural gas pipeline.
AK Stat § 42.06.245 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 42. Public Utilities and Carriers and Energy Programs|Chapter 06. Pipeline Act|Article 2. Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity.|Sec. 42.06.245. Federally regulated carriers.

The requirements of this chapter pertaining to permits and certificates of public convenience and necessity do not apply to the construction of a pipeline facility exclusively subject to federal jurisdiction or to the interstate portion of the business of a pipeline or pipeline carrier exclusively subject to federal jurisdiction. However, the requirements of this chapter for permits and certificates of public convenience and necessity do apply to all the intrastate portion of the business of a pipeline or pipeline carrier subject to federal jurisdiction whenever it engages in intrastate commerce. However, nothing limits the powers of the commission set out in this chapter except to the extent they are preempted by federal law.
AK Stat § 42.06.250 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 42. Public Utilities and Carriers and Energy Programs|Chapter 06. Pipeline Act|Article 2. Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity.|Sec. 42.06.250. Application.

Application for a certificate shall be made in writing to the commission, verified under oath. The commission, by regulation, shall establish the requirements for the form of the application, and the information to be contained in it. Notice of the application shall be served upon the interested parties in the manner that the commission by regulation requires.
AK Stat § 42.06.260 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 42. Public Utilities and Carriers and Energy Programs|Chapter 06. Pipeline Act|Article 2. Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity.|Sec. 42.06.260. Public hearings.

At least 30 days before issuing a certificate of convenience and necessity, the commission shall hold a public hearing on the application. Copies of the completed application shall be made available to the public at least 10 days before the public hearing date. A transcript of the public hearing shall be included in the permanent record of agency action on that application, and copies of the public hearing transcripts shall be available to the public. The commission may, without notice of hearing and pending the determination of an application for a certificate, issue a temporary certificate in cases of emergency, to assure maintenance of adequate service or to serve particular customers, and may by regulation exempt from the requirements of this section temporary acts or operations for which the issuance of a certificate will not be required in the public interest.
AK Stat § 42.06.270 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 42. Public Utilities and Carriers and Energy Programs|Chapter 06. Pipeline Act|Article 2. Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity.|Sec. 42.06.270. Grant or denial of application.

(a) Unless governed by AS 42.06.240(b), a certificate shall be issued to a qualified applicant, authorizing the whole or any part of the operation, service, construction, extension, or acquisition covered by the application, if it is found that the applicant is able and willing properly to do the acts and to perform the service proposed and to conform to the provisions of this chapter and the requirements and regulations of the commission, and that the proposed service, operation, construction, extension, or acquisition, to the extent authorized by the certificate, is or will be required by the present or future public convenience and necessity; otherwise the application shall be denied. (b) The commission, after a hearing upon its own motion or upon application, may determine the gathering areas, or the routes over which, the fixed termini between which, and the intermediate and off route points, if any, to which each authorization under this section is to be limited. (c) Nothing contained in this chapter shall be construed as a limitation upon the power of the commission to grant certificates of public convenience and necessity for service of an area, or routes, already being served by another pipeline.
AK Stat § 42.06.280 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 42. Public Utilities and Carriers and Energy Programs|Chapter 06. Pipeline Act|Article 2. Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity.|Sec. 42.06.280. Insurance and security.

The commission may require a lessee to procure and furnish liability and property damage insurance from a company licensed to do business in the state or furnish other security or undertaking upon the terms and conditions the commission considers necessary if the commission finds that the net assets of the lessee are insufficient to protect the public from damage for which the lessee may be liable arising out of the construction or operation of the pipeline.