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Alaska Administrative Code › Title 3 - Commerce, Community, and Economic Development › Part 7 - Regulatory Commission of Alaska › Chapter 48 - Practice and Procedure › Article 1 - Practice Before the Commission › 3 AAC 48.183 - Public meeting agendas

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) In addition to the notice provisions of
				  3 AAC 48.182 for public meetings of the commission, an
				  agenda of each public meeting of the commission will be printed and available
				  for public inspection and copying at the commission's offices and may be posted
				  on the commission's website.
(b)
				  The commission may post on its website or deliver by hand, by United States
				  mail or a similar delivery service, or by electronic mail a copy of an agenda
				  to each known participant in a proceeding listed on the agenda.
(c) A copy of an agenda of each regular
				  public meeting and of each special public meeting will be available and may be
				  mailed by the commission or posted on the commission's website at least one
				  week before the scheduled date of the meeting.
(d) A copy of an agenda of an emergency
				  meeting may be mailed by the commission or posted on the commission's website
				  as soon as the agenda is available, but by no later than one week after the
				  scheduled date of the emergency meeting.
(e) Repealed 11/6/2016.
Authority:
AS
						42.05.141
AS 42.05.151
AS
						42.06.140
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 3 - Commerce, Community, and Economic Development › Part 7 - Regulatory Commission of Alaska › Chapter 48 - Practice and Procedure › Article 1 - Practice Before the Commission › 3 AAC 48.184 - Procedures at meetings

Current through May 31, 2024
A public meeting of the commission will be conducted in
					 accordance with the 1990 Edition of
Robert's Rules of Order Newly
					 Revised
.
The 1990 edition of Robert's Rules of Order Newly
						Revised, mentioned in
						3 AAC 48.184, was published by Scott, Foresman and
						Company, Glenview, Illinois. Copies of this publication may be obtained from
						most bookstores. This publication may also be reviewed at most public
						libraries.
Authority:
AS
						42.05.141
AS 42.05.151
AS
						42.06.140(a)
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 3 - Commerce, Community, and Economic Development › Part 7 - Regulatory Commission of Alaska › Chapter 48 - Practice and Procedure › Article 1 - Practice Before the Commission › 3 AAC 48.185 - Voting at public meetings

Current through May 31, 2024
The use of proxy votes by commission members is prohibited
					 at public meetings. The votes of commission members will be recorded by the
					 commission.
Authority:
AS
						42.05.141
AS 42.05.151
AS
						42.06.140(a)
AS
						44.62.310(a)
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 3 - Commerce, Community, and Economic Development › Part 7 - Regulatory Commission of Alaska › Chapter 48 - Practice and Procedure › Article 1 - Practice Before the Commission › 3 AAC 48.186 - Public participation

Current through May 31, 2024
The commission will, in its discretion, allow public
					 participation at public meetings. No public testimony or participation will be
					 allowed by the commission regarding an adjudicatory matter pending before the
					 commission.
Authority:
AS
						42.05.141
AS 42.05.151
AS
						42.06.140(a)
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 3 - Commerce, Community, and Economic Development › Part 7 - Regulatory Commission of Alaska › Chapter 48 - Practice and Procedure › Article 1 - Practice Before the Commission › 3 AAC 48.187 - Meeting record

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) Each public meeting will be tape recorded
				  by the commission. The recording will serve as the commission's official record
				  of the public meeting. The recording will be retained for a period of five
				  years in accordance with the commission's records retention schedule approved
				  under AS
				  40.21.030.
(b) A transcript of a public meeting will not
				  be prepared by the commission unless specifically ordered by the commission or
				  requested by an interested member of the public. The person who requests a
				  transcript shall bear the cost of its preparation. If a transcript is ordered
				  or requested, it will be prepared in accordance with the provisions of
				  3 AAC 48.156. The original transcript, tapes, and
				  exhibits will be delivered to the commission.
(c) A person who requests a copy of a tape or
				  a transcript shall pay for the cost of preparing that copy, as set by the
				  commission.
Authority:
AS
						42.05.141
AS 42.05.151
AS
						42.06.140(a)
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 3 - Commerce, Community, and Economic Development › Part 7 - Regulatory Commission of Alaska › Chapter 48 - Practice and Procedure › Article 1 - Practice Before the Commission › 3 AAC 48.188 - Deliberations on adjudicatory matters conducted in a public forum

Current through May 31, 2024
The commission will, in its discretion, conduct
					 deliberations on adjudicatory matters in public. Deliberations on adjudicatory
					 matters conducted in public are not subject to the provisions of
					 3 AAC 48.180 -
					 3 AAC 48.187.
Authority:
AS
						42.05.141
AS 42.05.151
AS
						42.06.140(a)
AS 42.62.310(d)
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 3 - Commerce, Community, and Economic Development › Part 7 - Regulatory Commission of Alaska › Chapter 48 - Practice and Procedure › Article 1 - Practice Before the Commission › 3 AAC 48.190 - Official record

Current through May 31, 2024
The official record of each proceeding before the
					 commission is a paper printing of the electronic file. The official record
					 includes any paper documents or exhibits filed in accordance with this chapter
					 that have not been scanned into the commission's electronic filing
					 systems.
Authority:
AS
						42.05.141
AS 42.05.151
AS
						42.06.140
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 3 - Commerce, Community, and Economic Development › Part 7 - Regulatory Commission of Alaska › Chapter 48 - Practice and Procedure › Article 2 - Utility and Pipeline Tariffs › 3 AAC 48.200 - Scope of regulations

Current through May 31, 2024
Except as provided in
					 3 AAC 48.450 -
					 3 AAC 48.490, the provisions of
					 3 AAC 48.200 -
					 3 AAC 48.442 cover the construction, preparation,
					 content, filing, posting, and publication of utility and pipeline tariffs,
					 including special contracts.
Authority:
AS
						42.05.141
AS 42.05.151
AS 42.06.140
AS 42.06.350
AS
						42.06.390
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 3 - Commerce, Community, and Economic Development › Part 7 - Regulatory Commission of Alaska › Chapter 48 - Practice and Procedure › Article 2 - Utility and Pipeline Tariffs › 3 AAC 48.230

Current through May 31, 2024
Authority:
AS
						42.05.141
AS
						42.05.151
AS
						42.05.371
AS
						42.05.391
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 3 - Commerce, Community, and Economic Development › Part 7 - Regulatory Commission of Alaska › Chapter 48 - Practice and Procedure › Article 2 - Utility and Pipeline Tariffs › 3 AAC 48.240

Current through May 31, 2024
Authority:
AS
						42.05.141
AS
						42.05.151
AS
						42.05.361
AS
						42.05.411
AS
						42.06.140
AS
						42.06.350
AS
						42.06.390
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 3 - Commerce, Community, and Economic Development › Part 7 - Regulatory Commission of Alaska › Chapter 48 - Practice and Procedure › Article 2 - Utility and Pipeline Tariffs › 3 AAC 48.250 - Tariff on file for public inspection

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) Each utility or
				  pipeline carrier shall maintain in its tariff a list of the locations at which
				  it keeps a copy of its paper tariff available for public inspection and, if
				  applicable, the Internet address of its electronic tariff.
(b) A utility or pipeline carrier may not
				  refuse to permit anyone to inspect any of its effective tariffs during regular
				  business hours. A utility or pipeline carrier may not require anyone to provide
				  a reason for inspecting the tariff as a prerequisite to the
				  inspection.
(c) Repealed
				  10/27/2017.
Authority:
AS
						42.05.141
AS
						42.05.151
AS
						42.05.361
AS
						42.06.140
AS
						42.06.350
AS
						42.06.390
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 3 - Commerce, Community, and Economic Development › Part 7 - Regulatory Commission of Alaska › Chapter 48 - Practice and Procedure › Article 2 - Utility and Pipeline Tariffs › 3 AAC 48.270 - Tariff Advice letters

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) Unless otherwise provided, every tariff
				  filing required by
				  3 AAC 48.200 -
				  3 AAC 48.430, except filings directly related to
				  applications for new or amended certificates of public convenience and
				  necessity, must be transmitted to the commission by a consecutively numbered
				  letter designated as "Tariff Advice Letter No. 1, 2, 3, etc." Tariff advice
				  letters may be on either letterhead or plain paper, but must be formatted to
				  print eight and one-half inches by 11 inches in size, must contain the name and
				  return address of the filing utility or pipeline carrier, and must contain the
				  name, return address, and electronic mail address of the filing utility or
				  pipeline carrier's representative authorized to issue tariffs. Tariff advice
				  letters must
(1) list the tariff advice
				  letter number;
(2) specify the
				  statutes, regulations, or commission order that the filing is made
				  under;
(3) list the tariff sheets,
				  special contracts, agreements, forms, or other documents required by commission
				  order that are being filed;
(4)
				  summarize the proposed tariff revisions, including an explanation about whether
				  the filing proposes to implement rules, rates, or both;
(5) include a statement setting out whether
				  the filing will impact any current customers or shippers and if so, the
				  estimated number of customers or shippers that will be affected;
(6) if applicable, include a request for the
				  tariff filing to take effect before the end of the statutory notice period,
				  including a proposed effective date and explanation demonstrating good cause
				  showing why the early effective date is necessary; and
(7) if applicable, include a request for
				  interim approval.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 3 - Commerce, Community, and Economic Development › Part 7 - Regulatory Commission of Alaska › Chapter 48 - Practice and Procedure › Article 2 - Utility and Pipeline Tariffs › 3 AAC 48.280 - Notice and effective date

Current through May 31, 2024
The commission may prescribe, on a case-by-case basis, one
					 or more appropriate additional means by which a tariff filing must be noticed
					 to the public, including
(1)
				  publication in one or more newspapers or by means of other news media at the
				  expense of the filing utility or pipeline carrier;
(2) individual notice to all customers or
				  shippers that may be affected by the tariff filing, either by hand, by United
				  States mail, or by a similar delivery service, under conditions prescribed by
				  the commission, or by the commission itself; or
(3) publication on the commission's website.
Authority:
AS
						42.05.141
AS
						42.05.151
AS
						42.05.361
AS
						42.05.411
AS
						42.06.140
AS
						42.06.350
AS
						42.06.390
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 3 - Commerce, Community, and Economic Development › Part 7 - Regulatory Commission of Alaska › Chapter 48 - Practice and Procedure › Article 2 - Utility and Pipeline Tariffs › 3 AAC 48.290 - Response to public notice

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) Comments may be
				  filed either electronically, including by electronic mail, or on paper. Any
				  person desiring to submit a comment in response to a tariff filing may be asked
				  to do so not later than 20 days after the date the commission received the
				  tariff filings unless a longer period, not in excess of 30 days, is granted by
				  public notice, or by notice in writing. Every notice to the public by hand,
				  United States mail, or a similar delivery service or by means of a paid legal
				  advertisement in any news media shall specify the deadline date for
				  comments.
(b) Comments must be
				  submitted with a copy to the utility or pipeline carrier, must be signed by the
				  interested person or the person's authorized representative, and must contain
				  at least the following information:
(1)
				  reference to the applicable docket number, tariff advice letter number, or file
				  reference specified in the notice;
(2) the name, mailing address, and if
				  applicable, electronic mail address of the person filing, regardless of whether
				  the person is a customer of the utility or a shipper with the pipeline carrier;
				  and if the person is a customer or shipper, the physical address of the place
				  or places where service is taken, or the place or places where shipment is
				  received by the carrier;
(3) the
				  reason for filing, if not a customer or shipper, together with any supporting
				  factual data;
(4) whether or not
				  the comment is made on behalf of the interested person or on behalf of other
				  named persons, including an organized group, association, or company;
(5) the person's comment in the noticed
				  matter with reasonable particularity, and as concisely as possible;
				  and
(6) a statement that a true
				  copy of the same comment has been served on the utility or pipeline carrier
				  that made the tariff filing, together with the date it was either
				  electronically mailed or delivered by hand, United States mail, or similar
				  delivery service to the utility or pipeline carrier.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 3 - Commerce, Community, and Economic Development › Part 7 - Regulatory Commission of Alaska › Chapter 48 - Practice and Procedure › Article 2 - Utility and Pipeline Tariffs › 3 AAC 48.300 - Waiver of statutory notice period

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) When a utility
				  or pipeline carrier includes in its tariff advice letter a request under
				  3 AAC 48.270(a)(6) for a tariff filing
				  to take effect before the end of the statutory notice period, the burden of
				  showing good cause for waiving statutory notice must be borne by the filing
				  utility or pipeline carrier.
(b) In
				  response to each request under (a) of this section, the commission may take one
				  of the following actions:
(1) deny the
				  request and require at least the statutory notice period to expire before
				  allowing the tariff filing to take effect;
(2) grant the requested effective date as
				  proposed in the tariff advice letter;
(3) allow the tariff filing to take effect
				  before the end of the statutory notice period but later than the requested
				  effective date proposed in the tariff advice letter;
(4) pending a public hearing, suspend the
				  operation of the tariff filing for a period not longer than that permitted
				  under AS
				  42.05.421 or
				  AS
				  42.06.400.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 3 - Commerce, Community, and Economic Development › Part 7 - Regulatory Commission of Alaska › Chapter 48 - Practice and Procedure › Article 2 - Utility and Pipeline Tariffs › 3 AAC 48.310 - Suspension and rejection of tariff filings

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) A tariff filing
				  that is received by the commission in a form or filed by a method which, in
				  whole or in part, is not consistent with
				  3 AAC 48.200 -
				  3 AAC 48.430, or which reflects retroactive rate
				  treatment, will, in the commission's discretion, be rejected.
(b) When a tariff filing is rejected, it will
				  be returned promptly to the utility or pipeline carrier with a letter
				  explaining the reason the filing was rejected.
(c) A tariff filing or any portion of one,
				  that has been rejected is void.
(d)
				  The commission will, in its discretion, by order stating the reason, suspend a
				  tariff filing either in whole or in part at any time before the end of the
				  statutory notice period to the commission.
(e) If the commission does not enter a formal
				  order suspending a tariff filing, in whole or in part, the part of the filing
				  that is not suspended takes effect when the statutory notice period has run in
				  accordance with
				  3 AAC 48.220, or at a later date designated by the
				  utility or pipeline carrier.
(f)
				  Show cause orders and orders of investigation involving a suspended tariff
				  filing will be issued under the same docket file number as the one under which
				  the original suspension order was entered.
(g) If a suspended tariff filing is withdrawn
				  by a utility or a pipeline carrier and later refiled, the commission may
				  suspend the filing again up to the full statutory period.
(h) An order of the commission suspending a
				  tariff filing, in whole or in part, may later be vacated, in whole or in part,
				  by means of an order in the same formal proceeding.
(i) During the suspension period, a utility
				  or pipeline carrier may supplement or amend its tariff filing or make
				  additional filings. However, if the supplementary or additional filings
				  represent or make a significant or material change in the original filing, the
				  commission will, in its discretion, suspend the filing again up to the full
				  statutory period and renotice the supplemented or amended filing to the public
				  under 3 AAC 48.280.
Authority:
AS
						42.05.141
AS
						42.05.151
AS
						42.05.411
AS
						42.05.421
AS
						42.06.140
AS
						42.06.350
AS
						42.06.400
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 3 - Commerce, Community, and Economic Development › Part 7 - Regulatory Commission of Alaska › Chapter 48 - Practice and Procedure › Article 2 - Utility and Pipeline Tariffs › 3 AAC 48.315 - Telecommunications utility rate reductions

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) A
				  telecommunications utility may reduce a retail rate without commission approval
				  after notice of a tariff filing submitted by the utility in accordance with
				  applicable filing requirements and notice procedures of this chapter, 3 AAC 52,
				  and 3 AAC 53.
(b) Notwithstanding
				  (a) of this section, the commission may act on rates proposed as follows:
(1) in a local exchange area not designated
				  as a competitive local exchange market under
				  3 AAC 53.205, the commission will either deny or require
				  modification of rates proposed by a local exchange carrier if the proposal
				  violates an applicable statutory requirement of AS 42.05;
(2) in all other areas, a telecommunications
				  utility proposal to reduce retail rates must comply with the applicable
				  requirements of
				  3 AAC 52.370,
				  3 AAC 53.240, or
				  3 AAC 53.243.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 3 - Commerce, Community, and Economic Development › Part 7 - Regulatory Commission of Alaska › Chapter 48 - Practice and Procedure › Article 2 - Utility and Pipeline Tariffs › 3 AAC 48.320 - Separate tariff for each utility or pipeline carrier and controlling effective tariff

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) When a single entity furnishes more than
				  one kind of utility service, pipeline carrier service, or commodity, as defined
				  in AS 42.05 or AS 42.06, the entity shall file a separate tariff for each kind
				  of utility service, pipeline carrier service, or commodity that the entity
				  furnishes.
(b) For every service
				  that a utility or pipeline carrier offers that is regulated by the commission,
				  the effective tariff of the utility or pipeline carrier must set out the rates,
				  charges, regulations, terms, and conditions applicable to the service. The
				  effective tariff of every utility or pipeline carrier must specifically provide
				  for, and authorize, every rate or charge subject to the commission's
				  jurisdiction.
(c) A utility or
				  pipeline carrier may not deviate from its effective tariff or refuse to apply
				  it uniformly without prior commission approval.
(d) If a utility or pipeline carrier charges
				  more or less than the amount provided by its effective tariff, it shall
				  promptly make appropriate adjustments to correct the total overpayment or
				  underpayment.
(e) Errors occurring
				  in an effective tariff that result solely from a typographic or reproduction
				  mistake must, upon discovery, be corrected immediately by the utility or
				  pipeline carrier by filing, in compliance with
				  3 AAC 48.220 and
				  3 AAC 48.270, revised tariff sheets.
Authority:
AS
						42.05.141
AS
						42.05.151
AS
						42.05.371
AS
						42.05.381
AS
						42.06.140
AS
						42.06.360
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 3 - Commerce, Community, and Economic Development › Part 7 - Regulatory Commission of Alaska › Chapter 48 - Practice and Procedure › Article 2 - Utility and Pipeline Tariffs › 3 AAC 48.330 - Format of tariff sheets

Current through May 31, 2024
Every tariff sheet must be legible and formatted to print
					 eight and one-half by 11 inches in size and, except as provided in
					 3 AAC 48.360(d), include
(1) the number of the utility or pipeline
				  carrier's certificates of public convenience and necessity;
(2) the tariff sheet number;
(3) the tariff sheet revision
				  number;
(4) the name of the utility
				  or pipeline carrier;
(5) the tariff
				  advice number; and
(6) the proposed
				  effective date.
Authority:
AS
						42.05.141
AS
						42.05.151
AS
						42.05.361
AS
						42.06.140
AS
						42.06.350
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 3 - Commerce, Community, and Economic Development › Part 7 - Regulatory Commission of Alaska › Chapter 48 - Practice and Procedure › Article 2 - Utility and Pipeline Tariffs › 3 AAC 48.350

Current through May 31, 2024
Authority:
AS
						42.05.141
AS
						42.05.151
AS
						42.06.140(a)
AS
						42.06.350
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 3 - Commerce, Community, and Economic Development › Part 7 - Regulatory Commission of Alaska › Chapter 48 - Practice and Procedure › Article 2 - Utility and Pipeline Tariffs › 3 AAC 48.360 - General arrangement and content of tariff

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) The effective
				  tariff of a utility or pipeline carrier must contain
(1) a title page that includes the name of
				  the utility or pipeline carrier issuing the tariff as listed on the utility or
				  pipeline carrier's certificate of public convenience and necessity, the
				  certificated service or commodity offered, each certificated area to which the
				  tariff applies, and the physical address of the issuing utility or pipeline
				  carrier;
(2) an index with a
				  complete and accurate list of the contents of the tariff;
(3) a map or set of maps depicting the
				  utility or pipeline carrier's certificated service area;
(4) a complete set of terms and conditions
				  governing the services offered by each utility or pipeline carrier under its
				  applicable tariff; and
(5) a
				  schedule of all rates and charges for each class of service offered, or for
				  each customer or shipper group.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 3 - Commerce, Community, and Economic Development › Part 7 - Regulatory Commission of Alaska › Chapter 48 - Practice and Procedure › Article 2 - Utility and Pipeline Tariffs › 3 AAC 48.370 - Content of rules and regulations

Current through May 31, 2024
Except as otherwise provided in
					 3 AAC 48.360, the rules and regulations of each utility
					 or pipeline carrier, to the extent applicable, must include
(1) applications for service, deposits, and
				  credit rules;
(2) definitions of
				  terms used in the tariff;
(3)
				  terms, conditions, and charges for service connections;
(4) the reconnection charge and conditions
				  under which the charge applies;
(5)
				  use of service when it is a determining factor in the application of
				  rates;
(6) installation and
				  allowable deviation of metering devices from fixed standards;
(7) restrictions as to the hours of service,
				  if any;
(8) terms and conditions
				  under which service will be extended to applicants via distribution main
				  extensions, line extensions, or other means (except when stated in a rate
				  schedule);
(9) responsibility for,
				  and maintenance of, service;
(10)
				  access to customer premises;
(11)
				  interruptions of service and credit for interruptions;
(12) billing regulations, including special
				  bills;
(13) delinquent
				  accounts;
(14) illegal use of
				  service;
(15) discontinuance of
				  service by customer or shipper or utility or pipeline carrier, including
				  temporary disconnection of service;
(16) sales for resale;
(17) procedure for filing and disposition of
				  customer or shipper complaints;
(18) form of all contracts, except special
				  contracts, utilized in furnishing services and commodities, and conditions
				  under which they are required;
(19)
				  conditions under which a person may share in the use of the customer's service
				  (e.g., joint-user arrangements in tariff of a telecommunications
				  utility);
(20) directory listing
				  policy;
(21) priority of
				  service;
(22) supersedure of
				  service;
(23) liability
				  clauses;
(24) responsibility of
				  customer or shipper;
(25)
				  responsibility of utility or pipeline carrier;
(26) list of special contracts, with whom and
				  for what service; and
(27) sheet
				  indicating locations of tariff.
Authority:
AS
						42.05.141
AS 42.05.151
AS 42.05.311
AS 42.05.361
AS 42.05.411
AS
						42.06.140(a)
AS 42.06.350
AS
						42.06.390
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 3 - Commerce, Community, and Economic Development › Part 7 - Regulatory Commission of Alaska › Chapter 48 - Practice and Procedure › Article 2 - Utility and Pipeline Tariffs › 3 AAC 48.380 - Content of rate schedules

Current through May 31, 2024
Each schedule setting out the rates and charges for
					 services offered by the utility or pipeline carrier must be given an
					 appropriate heading. Each schedule must begin on a separate page and must, if
					 applicable, include the following:
(1)
				  the schedule number, class of service, and the locality or area where it is
				  applicable;
(2) to whom the service
				  is available;
(3) the kind or
				  classification of service, the conditions under which it is offered, and, if
				  necessary, the geographic area in which the rate is applicable;
(4) the rate;
(5) whether a schedule is optional, and the
				  associated conditions;
(6) the
				  minimum charge;
(7) the time when
				  service is available if not 24-hour service;
(8) the discount for prompt payment when
				  applicable;
(9) promotional
				  practices involving an offer to pay compensation or consideration or furnish
				  equipment as an inducement for the installation or use of a service or
				  commodity;
(10) any provision for
				  the automatic revision of a rate or charge which is contingent on changes in a
				  cost element entering into the cost of providing service such as fuel
				  adjustment clauses, or changes in the wholesale rate paid by the utility or
				  pipeline carrier for the service or commodity it purchases;
(11) all factors entering into the
				  computation of bills under the schedule;
(12) for telecommunications utilities that
				  furnish local exchange telephone service, their primary rate schedules, their
				  regulated terminal equipment rates, rates and charges for equipment furnished
				  by customers, and schedules for other services peculiar to their operations;
				  and
(13) for telecommunications
				  utilities that furnish interexchange long-lines service, their basic rate
				  schedules, their supplementary rate schedules, their list of toll points and
				  schedules covering all other intrastate services and facilities they furnish to
				  the public for compensation, but not toll settlement formulas and
				  procedures.
Authority:
AS
						42.05.141
AS 42.05.151
AS 42.05.361
AS
						42.06.140(a)
AS 42.06.350
AS
						42.06.390
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 3 - Commerce, Community, and Economic Development › Part 7 - Regulatory Commission of Alaska › Chapter 48 - Practice and Procedure › Article 2 - Utility and Pipeline Tariffs › 3 AAC 48.390 - Special contract

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) Special contracts are treated as tariff
				  filings. A utility service, commodity, or facility furnished to a customer
				  under an unwritten contract or arrangement must be discontinued unless the
				  parties to it execute a written contract and file it with the commission. This
				  section does not apply to
(1) the
				  merchandising of equipment and appliances;
(2) parts replacement and repair work on
				  customer-owned equipment;
(3)
				  utility construction or materials purchase contracts;
(4) easements;
(5) applications for membership in
				  cooperative associations; or
(6)
				  service agreements which merely recite the provisions of a utility's effective
				  tariff.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 3 - Commerce, Community, and Economic Development › Part 7 - Regulatory Commission of Alaska › Chapter 48 - Practice and Procedure › Article 2 - Utility and Pipeline Tariffs › 3 AAC 48.400 - Adoption notice

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) When the name of a utility or pipeline
				  carrier, as shown on a certificate of public convenience and necessity is
				  changed, due to the transfer of operating control of one utility or pipeline
				  carrier to that of another by sale, lease, rental, inheritance, assignment,
				  receivership, acquisition of a controlling interest by any means, or change in
				  the legal form of its organization, or when the name of the utility or pipeline
				  carrier is changed, the utility or pipeline carrier operating after that, if it
				  intends to continue using the tariff shall, for each tariff so used, issue and
				  file with the commission and shall, at the same time, make available for the
				  statutory notice period at every place designated under
				  3 AAC 48.200 -
				  3 AAC 48.430, a tariff supplement containing an adoption
				  notice reading substantially as follows:
(Name of utility or pipeline carrier) hereby adopts, as if
					 they had been originally filed by it, all tariffs, rules, notices,
					 concurrences, provisions, authorities, power of attorney, or any other
					 instruments of (name of predecessor utility or pipeline carrier) before (here
					 insert the date of change). By this notice, it also adopts and ratifies all
					 supplements and amendments to any of the above tariffs of the (name of
					 predecessor utility or pipeline carrier).
(b) Adoption notices may be filed and take
				  effect in less than the statutory notice period without written authorization
				  of the commission unless the commission finds it would be contrary to the
				  public interest.
(c) Until the time
				  when an adopted tariff is refiled in the name of the utility or pipeline
				  carrier that adopted it, all subsequent revisions to the tariff must bear the
				  name of the utility or pipeline carrier whose tariff was adopted. A tariff
				  adopted by one utility or pipeline carrier may not be adopted by another
				  utility or pipeline carrier, but instead must be filed as the tariff of the
				  filing utility or pipeline carrier without any substantive change in the rates,
				  charges, rules, and regulations of the predecessor utility or pipeline
				  carrier.
Authority:
AS
						42.05.141
AS
						42.05.151
AS
						42.05.361
AS
						42.06.140
AS
						42.06.305
AS
						42.06.350
AS
						42.06.360
AS
						42.06.390
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 3 - Commerce, Community, and Economic Development › Part 7 - Regulatory Commission of Alaska › Chapter 48 - Practice and Procedure › Article 2 - Utility and Pipeline Tariffs › 3 AAC 48.410 - Tariff of acquired utility or pipeline carrier

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) A newly formed
				  utility, or a utility brought under the commission's jurisdiction by operation
				  of law, shall file its complete tariff with the commission as part of its
				  application for a certificate of public convenience and necessity. A utility
				  filing an application for extension of its service area shall include as part
				  of its application any tariff revisions that may be required and a statement
				  justifying the applicability of its existing tariff in the new service area.
				  The filings are subject to modification, and take effect on the date the
				  certificate, or amendment to the certificate, is granted or at a later date
				  under an order of the commission.
(b) A utility or pipeline carrier acquiring
				  ownership or control of another utility or pipeline carrier, or portion of one,
				  and filing a notice adopting the rates, rules, regulations, and other items of
				  that utility or pipeline carrier shall, not later than 90 days after the filing
				  of that adoption notice, file those rates, rules, regulations, and other items
				  as a part of the acquiring utility or pipeline carrier's own tariff or as a
				  separate tariff in the acquiring utility or pipeline carrier's own name if it
				  plans to continue to operate in accordance with them.
Authority:
AS
						42.05.141
AS
						42.05.151
AS
						42.05.361
AS
						42.05.411
AS
						42.06.140
AS
						42.06.305
AS
						42.06.350
AS
						42.06.360
AS
						42.06.390
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 3 - Commerce, Community, and Economic Development › Part 7 - Regulatory Commission of Alaska › Chapter 48 - Practice and Procedure › Article 2 - Utility and Pipeline Tariffs › 3 AAC 48.420 - Uniform deposit practices

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) When a deposit
				  is required as a condition of receiving utility service the rule which
				  established the deposit requirement shall also set forth the maximum amount of
				  the deposit to be paid, which in no case shall exceed the following amount for
				  a customer of the indicated type of utility as determined by the utility after
				  consultation with the customer:
(1) two
				  months' telephone billings, including toll charges as estimated by the
				  utility;
(2) two months' electric
				  billing based on the utility's estimate of usage;
(3) two months' water charges at the flat
				  rate, or two months of metered charges as estimated by the utility;
(4) two months' gas billings as estimated by
				  the utility;
(5) two months' sewer
				  service fees as estimated by the utility;
(6) two months' garbage, refuse, trash, or
				  other waste material collection and disposal service billings as estimated by
				  the utility;
(7) two months'
				  community antenna or cable television (CATV) service billings as estimated by
				  the utility; and
(8) two months'
				  radio common carrier service billings as estimated by the utility.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 3 - Commerce, Community, and Economic Development › Part 7 - Regulatory Commission of Alaska › Chapter 48 - Practice and Procedure › Article 2 - Utility and Pipeline Tariffs › 3 AAC 48.425 - Depreciation practices for local exchange carriers

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) The Federal
				  Communications Commission's
Depreciation Ranges Adopted in CC Docket
				  No. 98-137,
dated December 17, 1999, is adopted by reference and is
				  used as the depreciation ranges in this section. A local exchange carrier may
				  use depreciation projection lives and future net salvage levels from the
				  depreciation ranges for the carrier's property accounts for purposes of
				  developing intrastate depreciation rates. Depreciation rates developed using
				  the depreciation ranges shall be filed with the commission, and those
				  depreciation rates may go into effect without commission approval if the filing
				  meets the requirements of (f) of this section and the filing is not suspended
				  under (g) of this section.
(b) A
				  local exchange carrier requesting a depreciation projection life or net salvage
				  level not included in the depreciation ranges shall obtain commission approval
				  of its proposed depreciation rates before placing the rates in
				  effect.
(c) The commission will
				  consider the actual useful life of depreciated equipment and facilities in
				  establishing depreciation rates.
(d) When proposing depreciation rates, a
				  local exchange carrier has the burden of proof to demonstrate that its proposed
				  depreciation or amortization expenses are adequate, but not excessive, in
				  accordance with
				  AS
				  42.05.471, and in accordance with generally
				  accepted accounting principles.
(e)
				  Regardless of whether the depreciation ranges are used, the rates proposed in a
				  depreciation study filed under this section become effective if
(1) after publishing notice of the
				  depreciation study in a newspaper of general circulation in the affected
				  service areas of the local exchange carrier, the commission does not receive
				  opposing comments within the comment period of the commission's public notice;
				  and
(2) the commission does not
				  take action within six months after the filing date of a complete depreciation
				  study.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 3 - Commerce, Community, and Economic Development › Part 7 - Regulatory Commission of Alaska › Chapter 48 - Practice and Procedure › Article 2 - Utility and Pipeline Tariffs › 3 AAC 48.430 - Jurisdictional separations

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) Except as set
				  out in (b) - (m) of this section, the Separations Manual, setting out the
				  standard procedure for separating telephone property costs, revenues, expenses,
				  taxes, and reserves, and as set out in 47 C.F.R. 36, as revised as of August 8,
				  1988, is adopted by reference. A telephone utility shall allocate its property
				  costs, revenues, expenses, taxes, and reserves in accordance with the
				  principles and procedures in 47 C.F.R. 36, except as set out in (b) - (m) of
				  this section, for use by the commission in establishing rates for telephone
				  utilities.
(b) Except as set out in
				  (e) and (f) of this section, "state toll" is substituted for "state" throughout
				  Part 36.
(c) Sections 36.1(b),
				  36.2(b)(3), and (e), 36.155(a), 36.331(b), and 37.377(a)(7) are modified by
				  substituting "state toll and local" for "state and interstate" and "interstate
				  or state."
(d)
										47 C.F.R.
				  36.2(b)(3)(iv),
				  36.126(c)(3),
				  and
				  36.154(c)
				  - (f) are not adopted. The following applies:
(1) No portion of Category 4.13 or Category
				  1.3 costs, as defined by
				  47 C.F.R. 36.126(a)
				  and (b) and
				  36.154(a),
				  will be apportioned to state toll.
(2) Repealed 1/10/99.
(3) Repealed 1/10/99.
(4) Repealed 1/10/99.
(5) Repealed 1/10/99.
(6) Support received from essential network
				  support, as provided by 3 AAC 53.346, and from the network access fee, as
				  established under Section 109 of the
Alaska Intrastate Interexchange
				  Access Charge Manual
, adopted bv reference in
				  3 AAC 48.440, shall be offset against the local exchange
				  revenue requirement.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 3 - Commerce, Community, and Economic Development › Part 7 - Regulatory Commission of Alaska › Chapter 48 - Practice and Procedure › Article 2 - Utility and Pipeline Tariffs › 3 AAC 48.440 - Rates for interexchange access

Current through May 31, 2024
Access charges shall be assessed for use of local exchange
					 telephone utility facilities by the providers of intrastate interexchange
					 telecommunications services. Those charges must be determined, assessed, and
					 collected, and revenues from those charges must be distributed, in accordance
					 with the commission's rules as set out in the
Alaska Intrastate
					 Interexchange Access Charge Manual,
dated August 9, 2018, and adopted
					 by reference. That manual is available at the offices of the Regulatory
					 Commission of Alaska as specified in
					 3 AAC 48.010(a).
Authority:
AS
						42.05.141
AS
						42.05.151
AS
						42.05.311
AS
						42.05.321
AS
						42.05.361
AS
						42.05.371
AS
						42.05.381
AS
						42.05.401
AS
						42.05.830
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 3 - Commerce, Community, and Economic Development › Part 7 - Regulatory Commission of Alaska › Chapter 48 - Practice and Procedure › Article 2 - Utility and Pipeline Tariffs › 3 AAC 48.442 - Delayed implementation of regulatory provisions relating to DEM weighting

Current through May 31, 2024
Notwithstanding the 1/10/99 amendments to
					 3 AAC 48.275 -
					 3 AAC 48.820, if the commission determines that the
					 delay of implementation of provisions in those regulations that relate to
					 weighted state DEM support in those regulations is in the best interests of the
					 state, the commission will, by order, provide for a delayed implementation date
					 of those provisions as they relate to weighted state DEM support, the reasons
					 for the delay, and a statement that the language of the regulations cited in
					 this section as it appeared on the day before 1/10/99 applies to weighted state
					 DEM support until the stated delayed implementation date.
Authority:
AS
						42.05.141
AS 42.05.151
AS 42.05.311
AS 42.05.321
AS 42.05.361
AS 42.05.371
AS 42.05.381
AS 42.05.431
AS 42.05.830
AS
						42.05.840
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 3 - Commerce, Community, and Economic Development › Part 7 - Regulatory Commission of Alaska › Chapter 48 - Practice and Procedure › Article 3 - Simplified Pipeline Tariffs › 3 AAC 48.450 - Applicability and purpose

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) The provisions
				  of 3 AAC 48.450 -
				  3 AAC 48.490 apply to a pipeline carrier proposing to
				  implement or revise a simplified pipeline tariff for a designated pipeline
				  facility.
(b) The purpose of
				  3 AAC 48.450 -
				  3 AAC 48.490 is to create a separate class of pipeline
				  facilities under
				  AS
				  42.06.620, each of which is referred to as a
				  designated pipeline facility. A pipeline carrier may maintain as its effective
				  tariff or as a portion of its effective tariff for a designated pipeline
				  facility a simplified form of tariff.
Authority:
AS
						42.06.140
AS 42.06.350
AS 42.06.390
AS
						42.06.620
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 3 - Commerce, Community, and Economic Development › Part 7 - Regulatory Commission of Alaska › Chapter 48 - Practice and Procedure › Article 3 - Simplified Pipeline Tariffs › 3 AAC 48.452 - Eligibility of pipeline facility subject to no permanent tariff

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) A pipeline
				  carrier may file a simplified pipeline tariff containing rules complying with
				  3 AAC 48.462, rates complying with
				  3 AAC 48.464, or both, for a new pipeline facility, the
				  new portion of an existing pipeline facility, or a pipeline facility or portion
				  of a pipeline facility to be constructed.
(b) A pipeline carrier that has not had
				  permanent tariff rules for an existing pipeline facility may file a simplified
				  pipeline tariff containing rules complying with
				  3 AAC 48.462.
(c) A pipeline carrier that has not had
				  permanent tariff rates for an existing pipeline facility may file a simplified
				  pipeline tariff containing rates complying with
				  3 AAC 48.464.
(d) A pipeline carrier that has not had
				  either permanent tariff rules or rates for an existing pipeline facility may
				  file rules complying with
				  3 AAC 48.462, rates complying with
				  3 AAC 48.464, or both.
(e) A pipeline carrier may file a simplified
				  pipeline tariff containing rules complying with
				  3 AAC 48.462, rates complying with
				  3 AAC 48.464, or both, for an existing pipeline facility
				  not previously regulated under AS 42.05 or AS 42.06.
Authority:
AS
						42.06.140
AS 42.06.350
AS 42.06.390
AS
						42.06.620
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 3 - Commerce, Community, and Economic Development › Part 7 - Regulatory Commission of Alaska › Chapter 48 - Practice and Procedure › Article 3 - Simplified Pipeline Tariffs › 3 AAC 48.454 - Eligibility of pipeline facility with permanent tariff

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) A pipeline
				  carrier with a proposed designated pipeline facility not eligible under
				  3 AAC 48.452 may file a simplified pipeline tariff
				  containing rules complying with
				  3 AAC 48.462, rates complying with
				  3 AAC 48.464, or both, along with a petition requesting
				  that the commission declare the pipeline facility a designated pipeline
				  facility eligible to operate under a simplified pipeline tariff. The petition
				  must contain a statement that the pipeline carrier withdraws its tariff or
				  specific tariff sheets filed under
				  3 AAC 48.200 -
				  3 AAC 48.410, as of the date the simplified pipeline
				  tariff goes into effect.
(b) After
				  notice and an opportunity for hearing, the commission will grant the petition
				  and declare the proposed designated pipeline facility a designated pipeline
				  facility if it finds that designated pipeline facility status is consistent
				  with controlling law and is in the public interest.
Authority:
AS
						42.04.080
AS 42.06.055
AS 42.06.140
AS 42.06.350
AS
						42.06.620
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 3 - Commerce, Community, and Economic Development › Part 7 - Regulatory Commission of Alaska › Chapter 48 - Practice and Procedure › Article 3 - Simplified Pipeline Tariffs › 3 AAC 48.456 - Date of designated pipeline facility status

Current through May 31, 2024
A pipeline facility that is the subject of a simplified
					 pipeline tariff under
					 3 AAC 48.452 -
					 3 AAC 48.454 becomes a designated pipeline facility on
					 the date the simplified pipeline tariff goes into effect.
Authority:
AS
						42.06.140
AS 42.06.350
AS
						42.06.620
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 3 - Commerce, Community, and Economic Development › Part 7 - Regulatory Commission of Alaska › Chapter 48 - Practice and Procedure › Article 3 - Simplified Pipeline Tariffs › 3 AAC 48.458 - Simplified pipeline tariff

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) A simplified
				  pipeline tariff must contain rules complying with
				  3 AAC 48.462, rates complying with
				  3 AAC 48.464, or both. The provisions of
				  3 AAC 48.200 -
				  3 AAC 48.410 are generally applicable to simplified
				  pipeline tariff filings under
				  3 AAC 48.450 -
				  3 AAC 48.490, except
(1) the provisions of
				  3 AAC 48.275(a), (c), (g), (h) and (i)
				  do not apply to those filings; and
(2) as otherwise provided in
				  3 AAC 48.450 -
				  3 AAC 48.490.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 3 - Commerce, Community, and Economic Development › Part 7 - Regulatory Commission of Alaska › Chapter 48 - Practice and Procedure › Article 3 - Simplified Pipeline Tariffs › 3 AAC 48.460 - Tariff letter for simplified pipeline tariffs

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) A pipeline
				  carrier proposing to implement a simplified pipeline tariff for the first time
				  for a proposed designated pipeline facility shall file a tariff letter that
(1) if filed under
				  3 AAC 48.452, specifies an effective date for the
				  simplified pipeline tariff at least 90 days following the date of filing; if an
				  earlier effective date is requested the tariff letter must state good cause for
				  the tariff to take effect on the earlier date;
(2) specifies whether the filing is made
				  under 3 AAC 48.452(a), (b), (c), (d), or (e), or
				  3 AAC 48.454(a);
(3) specifies whether the filing proposes to
				  implement rules, rates, or both, and describes the proposed rules, rates, or
				  both;
(4) attaches an affidavit
				  attesting that the rules, rates, or both comply with
				  3 AAC 48.462,
				  3 AAC 48.464, or both, as applicable.