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 48.040 - Confidential records

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) Except as provided in (b) of this
				  section, the records in the possession of the commission or its advisory staff
				  are open to inspection by the public during regular office hours.
(b) The following records are confidential
				  and are not open to inspection by the public unless they are released under
				  3 AAC 48.049 or court order or their release is authorized
				  by the person with confidentiality interests:
(1) bids for contracted services received in
				  response to an invitation to bid issued by the commission until after the
				  notice of intent to award a contract is given by the commission;
(2) communications relating to personnel
				  matters and medical or other personal information that, under governing
				  personnel practices and the laws of the state, are not public
				  information;
(3) records filed with
				  the commission that are confidential under
				  AS
				  42.06.445(c);
(4) records classified as confidential under
				  a protective order of the commission or the court;
(5) records designated as confidential by
				  written agreement among the parties to adjudicatory matters before the
				  commission for the purpose of conducting discovery;
(6) communications, regarding confidential
				  legal advice or assistance, between legal counsel for the commission and the
				  commission, its advisory staff, or its consultants, and documents prepared by
				  or at the direction of legal counsel that contain investigative conclusions or
				  are created for litigation or adjudicatory matters involving the
				  commission;
(7) preliminary records
				  relating to an investigation by the commission until the investigation is
				  complete or formal proceedings have been initiated by the commission;
(8) records of deliberations on adjudicatory
				  matters before the commission;
(9)
				  notes, drafts, and analyses used to aid the commission in the preparation of
				  any order or finding on adjudicatory matters;
(10) records of a regulated public utility,
				  electric reliability organization, pipeline carrier, or pipeline submitted to
				  or copied by the commission's advisory staff during any audit, review, or
				  investigation in connection with any formal or informal proceeding;
(11) records classified as confidential in
				  accordance with
				  3 AAC 48.045.
(12) financial records filed in support of an
				  application for a certificate of public convenience and necessity to provide
				  local exchange telecommunication services in a competitive local exchange
				  market.
(13) critical electric
				  infrastructure information within the meaning given in
				  18
				  C.F.R. 388.113(c); and
(14) cybersecurity incident
				  information, including any information related to, describing, or that could be
				  used to plan or cause any malicious or suspicious event that disrupts, or was
				  an attempt to disrupt, the operation of those programmable electronic devices
				  and communications networks, including hardware, software, and data, that are
				  essential to the reliable operation of the interconnected bulk-electric system;
				  in this paragraph,
(A) ''cybersecurity
				  incident" has the meaning given in AS 42.05.790;
(B) "interconnected bulk-electric system" has
				  the meaning given in AS 42.05.790.