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AK Stat § 42.06.286 (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. 42.06.286. Pipeline carrier regulatory cost charge.

(a) A pipeline carrier operating in the state shall pay to the commission an annual regulatory cost charge in an amount not to exceed the sum of the following percentages of gross revenue derived from operations in the state: (1) not more than .7 percent to fund the operations of the commission, and (2) not more than .17 percent to fund operations of the public advocacy function under AS 42.04.070(c) and AS 44.23.020(e) within the Department of Law. A regulatory cost charge may not be assessed on pipeline carrier operations unless the operations are within the jurisdiction of the commission. (b) The commission shall by regulation establish a method to determine annually the amount of the regulatory cost charge. If the amount the commission expects to collect under (a) of this section and under AS 42.05.254(a) exceeds the authorized budgets of the commission and the Department of Law public advocacy function under AS 42.04.070(c) and AS 44.23.020(e), the commission shall, by order, reduce the percentage determined under (e) of this section so that the total amount of the fees collected approximately equals the authorized budgets of the commission and the Department of Law public advocacy function under AS 42.04.070(c) and AS 44.23.020(e) for the fiscal year. (c) The commission shall administer the charge imposed under this section. The Department of Revenue shall collect and enforce the charge imposed under this section. The Department of Administration shall identify the amount of the operating budgets of the commission and the Department of Law public advocacy function under AS 42.04.070(c) and AS 44.23.020(e) that lapse into the general fund each year. The legislature may appropriate an amount equal to the lapsed amount to the commission and to the Department of Law public advocacy function under AS 42.04.070(c) and AS 44.23.020(e) for operating costs for the next fiscal year. If the legislature does so, the commission shall reduce the total regulatory cost charge collected for that fiscal year by a comparable amount. (d) The commission may adopt regulations under AS 44.62 (Administrative Procedure Act) necessary to administer this section, including requirements and procedures for reporting information and making quarterly payments. The Department of Revenue may adopt regulations under AS 44.62 (Administrative Procedure Act) for investigating the accuracy of filed information, and for collecting required payments. (e) The commission shall by regulation establish a method to determine annually the maximum percentage of gross revenue that will apply to each regulated public utility sector, the certificated telecommunications utility sector, and the regulated pipeline carrier sector in accordance with AS 42.05.254(h). (f) In this section, “gross revenue” means the total intrastate operating revenue as shown in a pipeline carrier's annual report required by the commission by regulation.
AK Stat § 42.06.290 (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. 42.06.290. Abandonment; discontinuance, and suspension of service.

(a) A pipeline carrier may not abandon or permanently discontinue use of all or any portion of a pipeline or abandon or discontinue any service rendered by means of a pipeline that is the subject of a certificate of convenience and necessity, without the permission and approval of the commission, after due notice and hearing, and a finding by the commission that continued service is not required by public convenience and necessity. Any interested person may file with the commission a protest or memorandum of opposition to or in support of discontinuance or abandonment. The commission may authorize temporary suspension of a service or of part of a service. (b) Upon complaint or upon its own motion, the commission may reinvestigate a previously authorized discontinuance, abandonment, or suspension of a service described in (a) of this section. If, after due notice and hearing, the commission finds that the public convenience and necessity requires the service to be resumed, and that there has not been detrimental reliance on the previous authorization, it may order the operator or owner of the oil or gas pipeline facility to again provide the service.
AK Stat § 42.06.300 (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. 42.06.300. Modification, suspension, or revocation of certificates.

Upon complaint or upon its own motion the commission, after due notice and hearing and for good cause shown, may amend, modify, suspend, or revoke a certificate, in whole or in part. Good cause for amendment, modification, suspension, or revocation of a certificate shall be (1) the requirements of public convenience and necessity; (2) misrepresentation of a material fact in obtaining the certificate; (3) unauthorized discontinuance or abandonment of all or part of a service that is the subject of the certificate; (4) wilful failure to comply with the provisions of this chapter or the regulations or orders of the commission; or (5) wilful failure to comply with a term, condition, or limitation of the certificate.
AK Stat § 42.06.305 (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. 42.06.305. Transfer of operating authority.

(a) Operating authority may not be transferred by sale or lease of the certificate or by the sale of substantially all of the stock or assets of a pipeline carrier holding a certificate without the prior approval of the commission. A transfer not involving a substantial change in ownership shall be summarily approved. (b) The commission's decision under this section shall be based on the best interest of the public.
AK Stat § 42.06.310 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 42. Public Utilities and Carriers and Energy Programs|Chapter 06. Pipeline Act|Article 3. Services and Facilities.|Sec. 42.06.310. Standards of service and facilities.

(a) Each oil or gas pipeline facility shall furnish and maintain adequate, efficient, and safe service and facilities. This service shall be reasonably continuous and without unreasonable interruption or delay. (b) If the commission, upon its own motion or upon complaint, after providing reasonable notice and opportunity for hearing, finds that the service or facilities of an oil or gas pipeline facility are unreasonable, unsafe, inadequate, insufficient, or unreasonably discriminatory, or otherwise in violation of this chapter, the commission shall prescribe by regulation or order, the reasonable, safe, adequate, sufficient service or facilities to be observed, furnished, enforced, or employed, including all repairs, changes, alterations, extensions, substitutions, or improvements in facilities that are reasonably necessary and proper for the safety, accommodation, and convenience of the public and the users. Regulations or orders issued under this subsection shall conform to accepted industry standards and practices. (c) Every common carrier shall, when ordered by the commission, extend or enlarge its pipeline or storage facilities provided the extension or enlargement shall be found to be reasonable and required in the public interest and that the expense involved will not impair the ability of the common carrier or public utility to perform its duty to the public. (d) The requirement of (c) of this section does not apply to a North Slope natural gas pipeline carrier to the extent that the capacity of the carrier's North Slope natural gas pipeline does not allow for expanded capacity, and does not apply to require a North Slope natural gas pipeline carrier to enlarge or extend its North Slope natural gas pipeline system. However, the commission may require a North Slope natural gas pipeline carrier to expand, enlarge, or extend its North Slope natural gas pipeline system if, after notice and opportunity for hearing, the commission determines that (1) a person making a request for expanded, enlarged, or extended service by a North Slope natural gas pipeline carrier has made a firm contractual commitment to the North Slope natural gas pipeline carrier to transport North Slope natural gas; and (2) the expansion, enlargement, or extension will not result in (A) substantial injury, including economic injury, to the North Slope natural gas pipeline facility or its customers; (B) substantial detriment to the services furnished by the North Slope natural gas pipeline facility; or (C) the creation of safety hazards.
AK Stat § 42.06.320 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 42. Public Utilities and Carriers and Energy Programs|Chapter 06. Pipeline Act|Article 3. Services and Facilities.|Sec. 42.06.320. Discrimination in service.

An oil or gas pipeline carrier may not, as to service, make or grant an unreasonable preference or advantage to any person or subject any person to an unreasonable prejudice or disadvantage. An oil or gas pipeline facility that is owned by more than one owner may not require that users make separate requests of each separate owner in order to obtain a reasonable share of the service provided by the oil or gas pipeline facility.
AK Stat § 42.06.330 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 42. Public Utilities and Carriers and Energy Programs|Chapter 06. Pipeline Act|Article 3. Services and Facilities.|Sec. 42.06.330. Power of commission to allocate usage.

If the commission, upon its own motion or upon complaint, after providing reasonable notice and opportunity for hearing, finds that an oil or gas pipeline facility is making or granting an unreasonable preference or advantage to any person or subjecting any person to an unreasonable prejudice or discrimination, the commission may prescribe rules to end the discrimination or the commission may itself prescribe the allocation of the service until it determines the discrimination can be avoided by appropriate rule or agreement.
AK Stat § 42.06.340 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 42. Public Utilities and Carriers and Energy Programs|Chapter 06. Pipeline Act|Article 3. Services and Facilities.|Sec. 42.06.340. Order for joint use or connection.

(a) When there is failure to agree upon the joint use or interconnection of oil or gas pipeline facilities or the conditions or compensation for joint use or interconnections, any interested person may apply to the commission for an order requiring the interconnection. If, after investigation and opportunity for hearing, the commission finds that public convenience and necessity require the joint use or connection, and that the use or connection will not result in substantial injury to the oil or gas pipeline facility or its customers, or in substantial detriment to the services furnished by the oil or gas pipeline facility, or in the creation of safety hazards, it shall (1) order that the use be permitted; (2) prescribe reasonable conditions and compensation for the joint use; (3) order the interconnection to be made; (4) determine the time and manner of the interconnection; (5) determine the apportionment of costs and responsibility for operation and maintenance of the interconnection. (b) During construction of a pipeline, the commission, after investigation and opportunity for hearing and findings as required in (a) of this section, may order the inclusion, within the pipeline at points that it designates, of special fittings including tees, wyes, spools, reducers, enlargers, flanges, flange plates, valves, and valve boxes, to reduce the time and cost of future connections for the injection and removal of gas and oil from the main pipeline, and to maintain and facilitate intrastate commerce. A request for special fittings may be made by the commissioner of natural resources for the state. A request for special fittings and valves may be made to the commission by a local government, person, company, or corporation. The cost of furnishing and installing the special fittings shall be paid by the state. However, if the special fittings are used by a person for a commercial enterprise or by a municipality for the operation of a utility, the commission shall require that the using person or municipality reimburse the state for the cost of furnishing and installing the special fittings.
AK Stat § 42.06.350 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 42. Public Utilities and Carriers and Energy Programs|Chapter 06. Pipeline Act|Article 4. Rates and Rate Schedules.|Sec. 42.06.350. Tariffs, contracts, filing, and public inspection.

(a) Under regulations adopted by the commission, every intrastate oil or gas pipeline carrier shall file with the commission, within the time and in the form designated by the commission, all rates, tariffs, charges, classifications, rules, regulations, terms, and conditions pertaining to service provided under the certificate, and shall maintain copies on file at its principal business office and at places designated by the commission, available to, and subject to inspection by, the general public on demand. (b) The commission may reject the filing of all or part of a tariff that does not comply with the form or filing regulations of the commission or that is not consistent with this chapter or the regulations of the commission. A tariff or provision rejected by the commission is void. (c) In its tariff filed with the commission under (a) of this section, a natural gas pipeline carrier may charge separate rates for firm transportation service and for interruptible transportation service. A natural gas pipeline carrier (1) may, in addition, impose a reservation fee or similar charge for reservation of capacity in a natural gas pipeline as a condition of providing firm transportation service; the reservation fee or charge imposed by the carrier may not include any variable costs or fixed costs that are not attributable to the provision of firm transportation service; (2) may not impose a reservation fee or similar charge for reservation of capacity in a natural gas pipeline for interruptible transportation service.
AK Stat § 42.06.360 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 42. Public Utilities and Carriers and Energy Programs|Chapter 06. Pipeline Act|Article 4. Rates and Rate Schedules.|Sec. 42.06.360. Adherence to tariffs.

The terms and conditions under which a pipeline carrier offers its services and facilities to the public shall be governed strictly by the provisions of its currently effective tariffs. A legally filed and effective tariff rate, charge, rule, regulation, or condition of service may not be changed except in the manner provided in this chapter. If more than one tariff rate or charge can reasonably be applied for billing purposes the one most advantageous to the customer shall be used.
AK Stat § 42.06.370 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 42. Public Utilities and Carriers and Energy Programs|Chapter 06. Pipeline Act|Article 4. Rates and Rate Schedules.|Sec. 42.06.370. Rates to be just and reasonable.

(a) All rates demanded or received by a pipeline carrier, or by any two or more pipeline carriers jointly, for a service furnished or to be furnished shall be just and reasonable. (b) Additional regulations governing determination of a reasonable tariff shall be published by the commission. (c) Rates demanded, observed, charged, or collected by a North Slope natural gas pipeline carrier for intrastate service shall be designed as if that portion of the North Slope natural gas pipeline were a public utility regulated under the provisions of AS 42.05.
AK Stat § 42.06.380 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 42. Public Utilities and Carriers and Energy Programs|Chapter 06. Pipeline Act|Article 4. Rates and Rate Schedules.|Sec. 42.06.380. Discrimination in rates.

(a) A pipeline carrier may not, as to rates, grant a preference or advantage to any customer or subject a customer to an unreasonable prejudice or disadvantage. A pipeline carrier may not establish or maintain an unreasonable difference as to rates, either as between localities served or between classes of service provided under the certificate. (b) A pipeline carrier may not directly or indirectly refund, rebate or remit in any manner, or by any device, any portion of the rates and charges or charge, demand or receive a greater or lesser compensation for service than is specified in its effective tariff nor extend to any customer served under the certificate any form of contract, agreement, inducement, privilege or facility, or apply any rule, regulation or condition of service except as are extended or applied to all customers under like circumstances.
AK Stat § 42.06.390 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 42. Public Utilities and Carriers and Energy Programs|Chapter 06. Pipeline Act|Article 4. Rates and Rate Schedules.|Sec. 42.06.390. Initial or revised rates.

(a) A pipeline carrier may not establish or place in effect any initial rates, charges, rules, regulations, conditions of service or practices except after 90 days' notice to the commission and to the public. Notice shall be given by filing with the commission and keeping open for public inspection the tariff provisions which shall plainly indicate the time when the tariff will go into effect. The commission may prescribe additional means of giving notice. The commission, for good cause shown, may allow initial tariffs to take effect on less than 90 days' notice under conditions the commission prescribes by order. (b) A pipeline carrier may not establish or place in effect any revised rates, charges, rules, regulations, conditions of service or practices except after 30 days' notice to the commission and to the public. Notice shall be given by filing with the commission and keeping open for public inspection the revised tariff provisions which shall plainly indicate the changes to be made in the schedules then in force and the time when the changes will go into effect. The commission may prescribe additional means of giving notice. The commission, for good cause shown, may allow changes to take effect on less than 30 days' notice under conditions the commission prescribes by order. (c) Initial and revised tariffs shall be filed in the manner provided in AS 42.06.350.
AK Stat § 42.06.410 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 42. Public Utilities and Carriers and Energy Programs|Chapter 06. Pipeline Act|Article 4. Rates and Rate Schedules.|Sec. 42.06.410. Power of commission to fix rates.

(a) When the commission, after an investigation and hearing, finds that a rate demanded, observed, charged, or collected by a pipeline carrier for a service, subject to the jurisdiction of the commission, or that a classification, rule, regulation, practice, or contract affecting the rate, is unjust, unreasonable, unduly discriminatory or preferential, the commission shall determine a just and reasonable rate, classification, rule, regulation, practice, or contract to be observed or allowed and shall establish it by order. (b) If an investigation is conducted in multiple phases, the commission may establish a rate at the end of a single phase. The rate established at the end of a single phase is to be considered a final rate under AS 42.06.400. If the rate established at the conclusion of the proceeding under (a) of this section or after judicial review is less than the rate established after a single phase of an investigation, a shipper is entitled to a refund of the difference between the amounts paid by the shipper and the amounts that would have been paid under the rate established at the conclusion of the proceeding or after judicial review. If the rate established at the conclusion of the proceeding under (a) of this section or after judicial review is more than the rate established after a single phase, a pipeline carrier is entitled to a payment of the difference between the amounts paid to the carrier and the amount that would have been paid under the rate established at the conclusion of the proceeding or after judicial review.
AK Stat § 42.06.420 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 42. Public Utilities and Carriers and Energy Programs|Chapter 06. Pipeline Act|Article 4. Rates and Rate Schedules.|Sec. 42.06.420. Valuation of property of a pipeline carrier.

The commission may, after providing reasonable notice and opportunity to be heard, ascertain and set the fair value of the whole or any part of the property of a pipeline carrier, insofar as it is material to the exercise of the jurisdiction of the commission. The commission may make revaluations from time to time and ascertain the fair value of all new construction, extensions, and additions to the property of a pipeline carrier.
AK Stat § 42.06.440 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 42. Public Utilities and Carriers and Energy Programs|Chapter 06. Pipeline Act|Article 5. Accounts, Records, and Reports.|Sec. 42.06.440. Inspection of records.

(a) Subject to AS 31.05.035(c), the commission shall at all reasonable times have access to, and may designate any of its employees, agents, or consultants to inspect and examine, the accounts, records, books, maps, inventories, appraisals, valuations, or other reports and documents, kept by an oil or gas pipeline carrier or its affiliated interests, or prepared or kept for it by others, which relate to any contract or transaction between them. The commission may require an oil or gas pipeline carrier or its affiliated interest to file with the commission copies of any or all of these accounts, records, books, maps, inventories, appraisals, valuations, or other reports and documents, or to maintain those materials at some convenient location in the state specified by order. Costs incurred in complying with a commission request to review the records referred to in this section or to maintain these records in such a manner as to make them conveniently available for the commission's review shall be borne by the party controlling the records. (b) Subject to AS 31.05.035(c), when participating as a party under AS 42.04.070(c) or AS 44.23.020(e), the attorney general shall, at all reasonable times, have the right to reasonable access to, and may designate any of the attorney general's employees, agents, or consultants to inspect and examine, the accounts, records, books, maps, inventories, appraisals, valuations, or other reports and documents kept by an oil or gas pipeline carrier that are relevant to the issues presented in any adjudicatory matter before the commission in which the attorney general has appeared as a party under AS 42.04.070(c) or AS 44.23.020(e). This access is subject to reasonable notice to all parties with an opportunity to object before the commission. Included under this subsection is access to records or other documents under the custody or control of an affiliated interest of the pipeline carrier that relate to any contract or transaction between the public utility and the affiliated interest. Costs incurred in complying with a request to review the records referred to in this subsection or to maintain those records in such a manner as to make them conveniently available for review shall be borne by the party controlling the records.