Arizona Administrative Code › Title 14 - PUBLIC SERVICE CORPORATIONS; CORPORATIONS AND ASSOCIATIONS; SECURITIES REGULATION › Chapter 2 - CORPORATION COMMISSION - FIXED UTILITIES › Article 1 - GENERAL PROVISION › Section R14-2-107 - Electric, Natural Gas, or Affiliated Water Cooperative Streamlined Rate Application Filing Requirements and Process

Current through Register Vol. 30, No. 28, July 12, 2024
A. Definitions. In this Section, unless
				otherwise specified:
1. "Affiliated entity"
				means an "entity" as defined in A.A.C.
				R14-2-801
				that, in relation to a cooperative, meets the definition of an "affiliate" in
				A.A.C. R14-2-801.
2. "Base revenue" means the revenue generated by
				permanent rates and charges, excluding:
a.
				Revenue generated through adjustor mechanisms, and
b. Revenue generated through miscellaneous
				service charges.
3. "CFC" means the
				National Rural Utilities Cooperative Finance Corporation.
4.
				"Commission" means the Arizona Corporation Commission.
5.
				"Cooperative" means a legal entity that is:
a.
				A domestic corporation or a foreign corporation authorized to transact business
				in this state;
b. Operated as a
				not-for-profit or non-profit;
c.
				Owned and controlled by its members; and
d. Operating as a public service corporation
				in this state by providing electric utility services, natural gas utility
				services, or water utility services from an affiliated
				entity.
6. "Customer"
				means anyone who receives utility service from the cooperative.
7.
				"Docket Control" means the organizational unit within the Commission's Hearing
				Division that accepts, records, and maintains filings.
8.
				"FERC" means the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.
9.
				"File" means to submit to Docket Control, with the required number of copies
				and in an acceptable format, for recording under an appropriate docket number.
10. "Full permanent rate case decision" means a
				Commission decision:
a. Issued on an
				application filed under
				R14-2-103
				and not under this Section,
b. In
				which the Commission ascertained the fair value of a public service
				corporation's property within Arizona and established a schedule of rates and
				charges for the public service corporation's provision of utility services
				within Arizona, and
c. Not issued
				under A.R.S. §
											40-252.
11.
				"Non-price tariff change" means modification of one or more tariff provisions,
				either through altering existing tariff language or adding new tariff language,
				in a manner that substantively alters a requirement other than a rate or
				charge.
12. "Rate schedule" means a schedule of rates and
				conditions for a specific classification of customer or for other specific
				services.
13. "Rate structure change" means any of the
				following:
a. Introduction of a new rate
				schedule;
b. Elimination of an
				existing rate schedule;
c. A change
				in base revenue generated by the residential rate class greater than 150% of
				the overall base revenue increase;
d. A change greater than 35% in the customer
				charge within a rate schedule for residential customers; or
e. A change in the rate blocks or the
				percentage relationship of the prices among rate blocks.
14.
				"RUS" means United States Department of Agriculture, Rural Utilities
				Service.
15. "Staff" has the same meaning as in
				R14-2-103.
16.
				"Test year" means the one-year historical period used in determining rate base,
				operating income, and rate of return, which shall have an ending date within 12
				months before the filing date for a rate application under this Section and
				shall include at least six months during which a cooperative's current rates
				and charges were in effect.
17. "Timely" means in
				the manner and before the deadlines prescribed in this
				Section.