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Alaska Administrative Code › Title 3 - Commerce, Community, and Economic Development › Part 7 - Regulatory Commission of Alaska › Chapter 46 - Electric Reliability Organizations and Integrated Resource Planning › Article 3 - Electric Reliability Organization Tariffs and Rules › 3 AAC 46.340 - Tariff on file for public inspection

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) An electric
				  reliability organization shall maintain a current tariff on its website. The
				  electric reliability organization shall also either maintain a paper copy of
				  its current tariff or provide electronic access to that tariff at the electric
				  reliability organization's primary business office, if applicable.
(b) Not later than 10 business days after a
				  change to an electric reliability organization's Internet website address, the
				  electric reliability organization shall file that change with the commission as
				  a tariff filing amending the title page, in compliance with 3 AAC 46.320 - 3 AAC 46.430.
(c) An electric
				  reliability organization may not refuse to permit anyone to inspect its
				  effective tariff during regular business hours. An electric reliability
				  organization may not require anyone to provide a reason for inspecting the
				  tariff as a prerequisite to the inspection.
Authority:
AS
						42.05.141
AS
						42.05.151
AS 42.05.770
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 3 - Commerce, Community, and Economic Development › Part 7 - Regulatory Commission of Alaska › Chapter 46 - Electric Reliability Organizations and Integrated Resource Planning › Article 3 - Electric Reliability Organization Tariffs and Rules › 3 AAC 46.350 - Controlling effective tariff

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) An electric
				  reliability organization may not deviate from its effective tariff or refuse to
				  apply it uniformly without prior commission approval.
(b) Errors occurring in an effective tariff
				  that result solely from a typographic or reproduction mistake must, upon
				  discovery, be corrected immediately by the electric reliability organization by
				  filing revised tariff sheets in compliance with 3 AAC 46.320 and 3 AAC 46.330.
Authority:
AS
						42.05.141
AS
						42.05.151
AS 42.05.770
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 3 - Commerce, Community, and Economic Development › Part 7 - Regulatory Commission of Alaska › Chapter 46 - Electric Reliability Organizations and Integrated Resource Planning › Article 3 - Electric Reliability Organization Tariffs and Rules › 3 AAC 46.360 - General arrangement and content of tariff

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) The tariff of
				  an electric reliability organization must contain
(1) a title page, including
(A) the name of the electric reliability
				  organization issuing the tariff, as listed on the electric reliability
				  organization's certificate;
(B) a
				  description of the interconnected bulk-electric system to which the tariff
				  applies that is sufficient to allow users, owners, and operators of that system
				  to identify the tariffs applicability to them;
(C) the physical address of the issuing
				  electric reliability organization, if applicable;
(D) the electric reliability organization's
				  Internet website address;
(E) the
				  electric reliability organization's telephone number;
(F) the electric reliability organization's
				  general electronic mail address; and
(G) the tariff number;
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 3 - Commerce, Community, and Economic Development › Part 7 - Regulatory Commission of Alaska › Chapter 46 - Electric Reliability Organizations and Integrated Resource Planning › Article 3 - Electric Reliability Organization Tariffs and Rules › 3 AAC 46.370 - Public notice

Current through May 31, 2024
The commission may prescribe, on a case-by-case basis, one
					 or more appropriate means by which a tariff filing must be noticed to the
					 public, including
(1) individual
				  notice to all users, owners, or operators directly affected by the tariff
				  filing, by United States mail, electronic mail, or similar delivery service,
				  under conditions prescribed by the commission, or by the commission itself;
(2) publication on the
				  commission's website; or
(3)
				  posting on the Alaska Online Public Notice System (AS
				  44.62.175).
Authority:
AS
						42.05.141
AS
						42.05.151
AS 42.05.770
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 3 - Commerce, Community, and Economic Development › Part 7 - Regulatory Commission of Alaska › Chapter 46 - Electric Reliability Organizations and Integrated Resource Planning › Article 3 - Electric Reliability Organization Tariffs and Rules › 3 AAC 46.380 - Response to public notice

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) Comments must
				  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 issues the public
				  notice. Every notice to the public must specify the deadline date for
				  comments.
(b) Comments must be
				  submitted with a copy to the electric reliability organization, 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 filing number, or file reference specified in the
				  notice;
(2) the name and the
				  mailing or electronic mail address of the person filing;
(3) the reason for filing, together with any
				  supporting factual data;
(4)
				  whether the comment is made on behalf of the interested person or on behalf of
				  another named person, including an organized group, association, or company;
				  and
(5) the person's comment in the
				  noticed matter with reasonable particularity, and as concisely as
				  possible.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 3 - Commerce, Community, and Economic Development › Part 7 - Regulatory Commission of Alaska › Chapter 46 - Electric Reliability Organizations and Integrated Resource Planning › Article 3 - Electric Reliability Organization Tariffs and Rules › 3 AAC 46.390 - Suspension or rejection of tariff filings

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) The commission
				  may reject a tariff filing that is received by the commission in a form, or is
				  filed by a method, that in whole or in part is not consistent with 3 AAC 46.320
				  - 3 AAC 46.430.
(b) If the
				  commission rejects a tariff filing, it will return the filing promptly to the
				  electric reliability organization 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) At any time before the end of the
				  regulatory notice period under 3 AAC 46.320(c), the commission may, by order
				  stating the reason, suspend a tariff filing either in whole or in part for 180
				  days from the filing of a complete electric reliability organization tariff
				  filing. In the order suspending a reliability standard, the commission will
				  identify the reliability standard's deficiencies and specify a timeline for
				  resubmission, with consideration of the electric reliability organization's
				  reliability standard development process.
(e) With the exception of a tariff filing
				  containing reliability standards, 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 regulatory notice period has
				  expired in accordance with 3 AAC 46.320(c), or at a later date designated by
				  the electric reliability organization.
(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 an electric reliability organization and later refiled,
				  the commission may suspend the filing again up to the full regulatory notice
				  period under (d) of this section.
(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, an electric
				  reliability organization 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 may suspend the filing again up to the full regulatory notice period
				  under (d) of this section and renotice the supplemented or amended filing to
				  the public.
Authority:
AS
						42.05.141
AS
						42.05.151
AS 42.05.770
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 3 - Commerce, Community, and Economic Development › Part 7 - Regulatory Commission of Alaska › Chapter 46 - Electric Reliability Organizations and Integrated Resource Planning › Article 3 - Electric Reliability Organization Tariffs and Rules › 3 AAC 46.400 - Waiver of regulatory notice period

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) When an
				  electric reliability organization includes in its tariff letter a request under
				  3 AAC 46.330(a)(7) for a tariff filing to take effect before the end of the
				  regulatory notice period under 3 AAC 46.320(c), the burden of showing good
				  cause for waiving the regulatory notice period must be borne by the filing
				  electric reliability organization.
(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
				  regulatory notice period to expire before allowing the tariff filing to take
				  effect;
(2) grant the requested
				  effective date as proposed in the tariff letter;
(3) allow the tariff filing to take effect
				  before the end of the regulatory notice period but later than the requested
				  effective date proposed in the tariff letter; or
(4) pending a public hearing, suspend the
				  operation of the tariff filing for a period not longer than that permitted
				  under
				  AS
				  42.05.175(i).
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 3 - Commerce, Community, and Economic Development › Part 7 - Regulatory Commission of Alaska › Chapter 46 - Electric Reliability Organizations and Integrated Resource Planning › Article 3 - Electric Reliability Organization Tariffs and Rules › 3 AAC 46.410 - Reliability standard fllings

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) Each
				  reliability standard filing must include
(1) a
				  copy of the electric reliability organization board resolution authorizing the
				  proposed reliability standard;
(2)
				  a summary of the proposed reliability standard, including an explanation of how
				  it impacts the interconnected bulk-electric system, and what the proposed
				  reliability standard intends to accomplish;
(3) if a proposed reliability standard or
				  modification is based on a standard adopted by a recognized standard-setting
				  entity,
(A) a copy of the authoritative
				  standard on which the proposed reliability standard is based; and
(B) a summary explaining how and why the
				  proposed reliability standard differs from the standard on which it is
				  based;
(4) a narrative
				  indicating if the electric reliability organization is aware if the proposed
				  reliability standard or modification conflicts with a commission rule or
				  directive, or any federal standard, rule, or function;
(5) a proposed order that includes the
				  following items;
(A) how the proposed
				  reliability standard meets the requirements of AS 42.05.765(a); and
(B) how the proposed reliability standard is
				  just, reasonable, not unduly discriminatory or preferential, and in the public
				  interest;
(6) a
				  statement setting out the users, owners, or operators to which the proposed
				  reliability standard would apply based on their impact on the reliability of
				  the interconnected electric energy transmission network;
(7) the proposed implementation plan, if
				  approved, including a proposed effective date;
(8) a penalty matrix that describes
(A) the violation type and severity
				  level;
(B) a range of penalties
				  that may associated with a violation of the standard; and
(C) if applicable, how a violation could
				  threaten grid stability;
(9) a statement on how the electric
				  reliability organization will monitor, ensure compliance with, and enforce the
				  proposed reliability standard; and
(10) procedures by which a registered entity
				  found in violation of the proposed reliability standard must take action to
				  come back into compliance, as needed.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 3 - Commerce, Community, and Economic Development › Part 7 - Regulatory Commission of Alaska › Chapter 46 - Electric Reliability Organizations and Integrated Resource Planning › Article 3 - Electric Reliability Organization Tariffs and Rules › 3 AAC 46.420 - Electric reliability organization surcharge

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) An electric
				  reliability organization shall maintain its books and records in a manner that
				  separately shows its
(1) costs of general
				  administration, developing reliability standards, ensuring compliance with and
				  enforcement of reliability standards, and integrated resource planning;
				  and
(2) costs associated with the
				  standards required by AS 42.05.770(1).
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 3 - Commerce, Community, and Economic Development › Part 7 - Regulatory Commission of Alaska › Chapter 46 - Electric Reliability Organizations and Integrated Resource Planning › Article 3 - Electric Reliability Organization Tariffs and Rules › 3 AAC 46.430 - Filing requirements for electric reliability organization surcharge fllings

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) An electric reliability organization
				  shall submit each surcharge filing as a tariff filing in compliance with the
				  applicable provisions of 3 AAC 46.320 - 3 AAC 46.430.
(b) An electric reliability organization
				  surcharge revision must be filed at least 45 days before the beginning of the
				  electric reliability organization's fiscal year.
(c) With each surcharge tariff filing, the
				  electric reliability organization must submit the following information to
				  support entries in the balancing account and the proposed budget for the future
				  period:
(1) an electric reliability
				  organization's board resolution authorizing the proposed budget;
(2) the proposed budget;
(3) a schedule showing the proposed dollar
				  amount for each major planned activity, and general administrative expenses, of
				  the electric reliability organization;
(4) the plan for carrying out each identified
				  major planned activity;
(5) a
				  narrative explaining the required estimated costs;
(6) a schedule showing the proposed dollar
				  amount of each line item in the proposed budget, by account number, including
				  any subaccounts;
(7) a schedule and
				  explanation of each account and subaccount for which the current and prior
				  year's proposed budget amounts differ by more than 10 percent;
(8) a schedule and explanation of each
				  account and subaccount for which actual costs incurred in the prior year differ
				  by more than five percent from the budgeted amounts contained in that year's
				  proposed budget filing;
(9) the
				  calculation of the surcharge;
(10)
				  a calculation of the monthly balances in the balancing account;
(11) revised tariff sheets; and
(12) other information that the commission
				  considers necessary to explain entries in the balancing account or surcharge
				  calculation.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 3 - Commerce, Community, and Economic Development › Part 7 - Regulatory Commission of Alaska › Chapter 46 - Electric Reliability Organizations and Integrated Resource Planning › Article 3 - Electric Reliability Organization Tariffs and Rules › 3 AAC 46.440 - Open access transmission and interconnection

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) Not later than
				  the date specified in the order approving an application to serve as an
				  electric reliability organization, an electric reliability organization's
				  tariff addressing interconnection must include (1) a definition of the entities
				  eligible to interconnect with the interconnected bulk-electric system served by
				  the electric reliability organization;
(2) a
				  requirement that generators and loads capable of interconnecting with the
				  interconnected bulk-electric system served by the electric reliability
				  organization are eligible to apply for interconnection with interconnected
				  load-serving entities in accordance with the standards for interconnection
				  stated in the electric reliability organization's interconnection
				  tariff;
(3) standard procedures for
				  interconnection by facilities generating no more than 15,000 kilowatts of
				  power; the electric reliability organization may submit standards
(A) based wholly on the
Small
				  Generator Procedures (for Generating Facilities no larger than 20 MW)
adopted by Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Orders 2006 and 2006-A in
				  Docket RM 13-2-000;
(B) based in
				  part on the procedures in (A) of this paragraph, and adjusted to reflect the
				  size, stability, and economic resources of the local region; or
(C) based on an alternative interconnection
				  standard more appropriate for local conditions; and
(4) standard procedures for interconnection
				  by facilities generating more than 15,000 kilowatts of power; the electric
				  reliability organization may submit standards
(A) based wholly on the
Standard
				  Large Generator Interconnection Procedures (Applicable to Generating Facilities
				  that exceed 20 MW)
adopted by Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
				  Orders 2003 and 2003-A in Docket RM02-1-001;
(B) based in part on the procedures in (A) of
				  this paragraph, and adjusted to reflect the size, stability, and economic
				  resources of the local region; or
(C) based on an alternative interconnection
				  standard more appropriate for local conditions.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 3 - Commerce, Community, and Economic Development › Part 7 - Regulatory Commission of Alaska › Chapter 46 - Electric Reliability Organizations and Integrated Resource Planning › Article 3 - Electric Reliability Organization Tariffs and Rules › 3 AAC 46.450 - Transmission cost recovery

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) Not later than
				  the date specified in the order approving an application to serve as an
				  electric reliability organization, an electric reliability organization's
				  tariff must include methodologies for addressing transmission costs that ensure
				  that the transmission system costs are allocated to those that derive benefits
				  from the system in a manner that is at least roughly commensurate with
				  estimated benefits.
(b) A filing to
				  implement a standard for transmission system cost recovery must demonstrate
				  that the standard
(1) ensures that only costs
				  of assets that provide transmission benefits are included; and
(2) allocates project costs in a manner that
				  is at least roughly commensurate with the estimated benefits derived from the
				  transmission system.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 3 - Commerce, Community, and Economic Development › Part 7 - Regulatory Commission of Alaska › Chapter 46 - Electric Reliability Organizations and Integrated Resource Planning › Article 4 - General Provisions › 3 AAC 46.990 - Good cause and application for waiver

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) For purposes of
				  a waiver under this chapter, good cause shown or good cause determined on the
				  commission's own motion must be based on a finding by the commission that
(1) waiver of the requirement will not
				  conflict with the provisions of AS 42.05.760 - AS 42.05.790, and is consistent
				  with the public interest; and
(2)
				  the basis for the waiver does not involve
(A)
				  misrepresentation of a material fact;
(B) unauthorized discontinuance or
				  abandonment of all or part of an electric reliability organization's duties;
(C) willful failure to comply with
				  the provisions of AS 42.05.760-42.05.790, this chapter, or the orders of the
				  commission; or
(D) willful failure
				  to comply with a term, condition, or limitation of a certificate.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 3 - Commerce, Community, and Economic Development › Part 7 - Regulatory Commission of Alaska › Chapter 46 - Electric Reliability Organizations and Integrated Resource Planning › Article 4 - General Provisions › 3 AAC 46.999 - Definitions

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) In the definition of "large energy
				  facility" in AS 42.05.785(e),
(1) "capacity"
				  means nameplate capacity within the meaning given in
				  3 AAC 50.949;
(2) "single site" means facilities owned by
				  the same entity and
(A) within one mile of
				  each other; or
(B) within 10 miles
				  of each other, if circumstances exist under which the facilities should
				  reasonably be considered a single site.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 3 - Commerce, Community, and Economic Development › Part 7 - Regulatory Commission of Alaska › Chapter 47 - Regulatory Cost Charges for Public Utilities and Pipeline Carriers › Article 1 - Applicability › 3 AAC 47.010 - Applicability, purpose, and waiver

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) The provisions
				  of this chapter apply to all public utilities and pipeline carriers operating
				  in Alaska, as specified in this chapter.
(b) The purpose of
				  3 AAC 47.010 -
				  3 AAC 47.999 is to implement
(1)AS
				  42.05.254 and
				  AS
				  42.06.286 by establishing a method to
				  determine the regulatory cost charges for all regulated utilities and pipeline
				  carriers operating in Alaska; and
(2)AS
				  42.05.254 by establishing a procedure to
				  determine the actual cost of services provided by the commission to public
				  utilities exempt from regulation under
				  AS
				  42.05.711.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 3 - Commerce, Community, and Economic Development › Part 7 - Regulatory Commission of Alaska › Chapter 47 - Regulatory Cost Charges for Public Utilities and Pipeline Carriers › Article 2 - Regulatory Cost Charges for Regulated Public Utilities and Pipeline Carriers › 3 AAC 47.045 - Determination of regulatory cost charge for fiscal year 1995; single annual payment (Repealed)

Current through May 31, 2024
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 3 - Commerce, Community, and Economic Development › Part 7 - Regulatory Commission of Alaska › Chapter 47 - Regulatory Cost Charges for Public Utilities and Pipeline Carriers › Article 2 - Regulatory Cost Charges for Regulated Public Utilities and Pipeline Carriers › 3 AAC 47.050 - Regulatory cost charge quarterly payments; reporting requirements

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) If
				  the commission by order under
				  3 AAC 47.030(e) directs that payment of
				  the regulatory cost charge must be made quarterly, each regulated utility and
				  pipeline carrier shall submit to the Department of Revenue, within 30 days
				  after the end of each quarter of the state fiscal year, quarterly payment of
				  its regulatory cost charge, calculated by applying the regulatory cost charge
				  rate established under
				  3 AAC 47.030(e) to the amounts
				  described in (b)(1) of this section.
(b) At the time a regulated utility or
				  pipeline carrier submits the payment required by (a) of this section, it shall
				  electronically file with the commission, in accordance with
				  3 AAC 48.095 a report that contains the
(1) amount of adjusted gross regulated
				  operating revenue from bills rendered during the preceding quarter and, in the
				  case of a regulated electric utility, kilowatt-hour sales, not including
				  wholesale sales, on bills rendered during the preceding quarter; and
(2) total regulatory cost charge due on
				  adjusted gross regulated operating revenue or, in the case of a regulated
				  electric utility, kilowatt-hour sales, not including wholesale sales, for the
				  preceding quarter;
(3) repealed
				  12/1/94.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 3 - Commerce, Community, and Economic Development › Part 7 - Regulatory Commission of Alaska › Chapter 47 - Regulatory Cost Charges for Public Utilities and Pipeline Carriers › Article 2 - Regulatory Cost Charges for Regulated Public Utilities and Pipeline Carriers › 3 AAC 47.060 - Annual reporting requirements

Current through May 31, 2024
On or before April 30 of each year, a regulated utility or
					 pipeline carrier shall file with the commission, in accordance with
					 3 AAC 48.095, on a form provided by the commission, a
					 report containing
(1) the total
				  amount of the regulated utility's or pipeline carrier's adjusted gross
				  regulated operating revenue and, in the case of a regulated electric utility,
				  kilowatt-hour sales, not including wholesale sales, for the period of the
				  report;
(2) the total regulatory
				  cost charge due on adjusted gross regulated operating revenue or, in the case
				  of a regulated electric utility, the total regulatory cost charge due, based on
				  kilowatt-hour sales, not including wholesale sales, for the period of the
				  report;
(3) a reconciliation of the
				  annual amounts with the amounts previously filed for quarterly periods for the
				  period of the report;
(4) the total
				  amount collected from ratepayers for the period of the report from a charge
				  implemented under
				  3 AAC 47.070; and
(5) an affidavit stating whether the total
				  regulatory cost charge due for the annual period, including adjustments
				  required for payments for quarterly periods, has been paid to the Department of
				  Revenue.
Effective 12/1/95 (Register 136) the Alaska Public
						Utilities Commission readopted without change the preceding section under AS
						42.05 and AS 42.06 as changed by ch. 1, SLA
						1995.
Authority:
AS
						42.05.141
AS
						42.05.151
AS
						42.05.254
AS
						42.06.140
AS
						42.06.286
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 3 - Commerce, Community, and Economic Development › Part 7 - Regulatory Commission of Alaska › Chapter 47 - Regulatory Cost Charges for Public Utilities and Pipeline Carriers › Article 2 - Regulatory Cost Charges for Regulated Public Utilities and Pipeline Carriers › 3 AAC 47.070 - Billing of regulatory cost charges

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) A regulated
				  utility or pipeline carrier may implement a separate charge on its bills to
				  retail customers and shippers, including bills rendered by a local exchange
				  carrier on behalf of an interexchange carrier, to collect the regulatory cost
				  charge, subject to the following limitations:
(1) in the case of a regulated electric
				  utility, the amount billed to customers may be no more than the regulatory cost
				  charge rate per kilowatt-hour times the number of kilowatt-hours
				  billed;
(2) in the case of a local
				  exchange carrier, the amount billed to customers may be no more than the
				  regulatory cost charge rate times the amount billed for all local
				  services;
(3) in the case of an
				  interexchange carrier, including bills rendered by a local exchange carrier on
				  behalf of an interexchange carrier, the amount billed to the customers may be
				  no more than the regulatory cost charge rate times the amount billed for
				  intrastate interexchange service;
(4) in the case of all other regulated
				  utilities and pipeline carriers, the amount billed may be no more than the
				  regulatory cost charge rate times the amount billed for all services;
				  and
(5) if the commission requires
				  payment of the regulatory cost charge in a single annual payment under
				  3 AAC 47.030(e),
(A) at the beginning of the complete billing
				  period after a regulated utility or pipeline carrier has billed for the full
				  amount of the charge imposed by the commission plus the net cost of capital
				  resulting from the time between the date the regulatory cost charge is paid to
				  the state and the date the regulatory cost charge is collected by the regulated
				  utility or pipeline carrier from its customers or shippers, the utility or
				  carrier shall discontinue billing its regulatory cost charge, including the net
				  cost of capital;
(B) a regulated
				  utility or pipeline carrier may, without prior commission approval, reduce the
				  regulatory cost charge, including the net cost of capital, it bills its
				  customers or shippers for the final month of collection to minimize the amount
				  that would otherwise be overcollected; and
(C) if the regulatory cost charge, including
				  the net cost of capital, collected by a regulated utility or pipeline carrier
				  from its customers or shippers exceeds the amount imposed by the commission by
				  more than two percent, that utility or pipeline carrier shall propose to the
				  commission a method of returning to its customers or shippers the excess
				  amount.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 3 - Commerce, Community, and Economic Development › Part 7 - Regulatory Commission of Alaska › Chapter 47 - Regulatory Cost Charges for Public Utilities and Pipeline Carriers › Article 3 - Regulatory Cost Charges for Exempt Utilities › 3 AAC 47.100 - Determination of actual costs for exempt public utilities

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) After notice
				  and an opportunity for interested persons to be heard, the commission will
				  establish, by order, a schedule of actual costs of services performed by the
				  commission to be charged to exempt utilities. The schedule will be adjusted by
				  commission order as necessary.
(b)
				  Actual costs will be charged based upon either actual time and materials spent
				  on a specific task or project, plus allowance for overhead, or upon an average
				  of time, materials, and overhead for a group of similar tasks or
				  projects.
(c) If the service
				  rendered to an exempt utility is on the schedule established under (a) of this
				  section, the charges for that service will be from the schedule.
(d) If the service rendered to an exempt
				  utility is not specified on the schedule established under (a) of this section,
				  the exempt utility will be charged based upon actual costs for that
				  service.
Effective 12/1/95 (Register 136) the Alaska Public
						Utilities Commission readopted without change the preceding section under AS
						42.05 and AS 42.06 as changed by ch. 1, SLA
						1995.
Authority:
AS
						42.05.141
AS 42.05.151
AS 42.05.254
AS 42.06.140
AS
						42.06.286
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 3 - Commerce, Community, and Economic Development › Part 7 - Regulatory Commission of Alaska › Chapter 47 - Regulatory Cost Charges for Public Utilities and Pipeline Carriers › Article 4 - General Provisions › 3 AAC 47.999 - Definitions

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) Unless the context indicates otherwise,
				  in 3 AAC 47.010 -
				  3 AAC 47.999,
(1)
				  "actual costs" means that portion of the direct or indirect cost of operating
				  the commission that can be assigned to a specific task or project performed for
				  an exempt utility;
(2) "adjusted
				  gross regulated operating revenue" means the total revenue derived from
				  operations in intrastate services, reduced by uncollectible revenue, and, as
				  applicable, settlements or access charges, wholesale sales, and electric
				  utility cost of power;
(3) "exempt
				  utility" has the meaning given in
				  AS
				  42.05.254(i);
(4) "regulated utility" has the meaning given
				  in AS
				  42.05.254(i);
(5) "wholesale sales" has the meaning given
				  in AS
				  42.05.254(i);
(6) "electric utility cost of power" means
				  the total of accounts 500 - 557 of the uniform system of accounts prescribed
				  for use by electric utilities under
				  3 AAC 48.277(a) (9) -
				  (a)(13);
(7) "regulated sector"
				  means the regulated public utility sector and the regulated pipeline carrier
				  sector.
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 48.010 - Commission office, hours and seal

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) The principal
				  office of the commission is located at 701 West Eighth Avenue, Suite 300,
				  Anchorage, Alaska 99501-3469. The commission's area code number is 907 and its
				  telephone number is 276-6222.
(b)
				  The office of the commission is open for the transaction of business each day
				  from 8:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m., except Saturday, Sunday, and every state legal
				  holiday.
(c) The official seal of
				  the commission is a vignette of the official flag of the State of Alaska
				  surrounded by the words "Regulatory Commission of Alaska," a facsimile of which
				  is reproduced below.
CLICK TO
					 VIEW SEAL
(d)
				  The commission will, by resolution, designate the custodian of its official
				  seal.
(e) Except as a particular
				  credential may provide a more limited authorization, persons issued credentials
				  by the commission are authorized to enter, inspect, and examine any and all
				  lands, buildings, and equipment of persons subject to AS 42.05 Alaska Public
				  Utilities Regulatory Act, AS 42.06, Pipeline Act, or related statutes, and to
				  examine and copy any and all correspondence and other documents of those
				  persons. A properly endorsed facsimile of the commission's credential card as
				  set out below must, on demand, be shown by any representative of the commission
				  whose identity and official authority may be questioned:
STATE OF ALASKA
THIS IS TO CERTIFY THAT _______________, whose signature
					 appears on the margin, is a representative of the Regulatory Commission of
					 Alaska and is authorized to inspect any and all books, records, documents, and
					 plant facilities of any person subject to AS 42.05 and AS 42.06 and related
					 statutes.
This identification card expires _______________.
REGULATORY COMMISSION OF ALASKA
BY (Signature in Ink)
CHAIR
(f) The commission will be in continuous
				  session for the performance of its administrative duties, including hearings,
				  participation in meetings, conferences and the conduct of other
				  business.
Authority:
AS
						42.04.030
AS 42.04.050
AS 42.05.141
AS 42.05.151
AS 42.06.140
AS
						42.06.440
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 48.030 - Fees, remittances and charges

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) Every charge
				  payable to the commission shall be transmitted by letter indicating the amount
				  and purpose thereof.
(b) Every
				  remittance shall be by money order, bank draft, or check payable to the
				  Regulatory Commission of Alaska. Remittances in coin or currency are tendered
				  at the risk of the loss of money sent in that manner.
(c) Postage stamps shall not be sent as a
				  remittance unless the remitter is so directed.
(d) Every fee required by statute in
				  connection with applications relating to certificates of public convenience and
				  necessity, electric reliability organization certificates, or any other matter
				  which by statute requires formal action by the commission must be paid in full
				  before the matter will be docketed for consideration. Every charge for copying;
				  printing; reproducing; furnishing copies of reports, orders, pleadings, tariff
				  sheets, regulations, or other items and all costs allocated under
				  AS
				  42.05.221(e),
				  42.05.401(b),
				  42.05.651;
				  or
				  AS
				  42.06.610 must be paid promptly upon receipt
				  of the commission's invoice or order designating the amount owed. Failure to
				  remit the amount due will, as appropriate, and at the commission's discretion,
				  result in
(1) discontinuance of the service
				  for which payment is due;
(2)
				  denial of standing to participate in a proceeding in which costs may be
				  allocated, until the amount due is paid;
(3) refusal of the commission to accept or
				  act upon any application or tariff filing of the person who is in arrears,
				  until the amount due is paid; and
(4) referral of the problem to the attorney
				  general for appropriate action pursuant to
				  AS
				  42.05.561-42.05.611 or
				  AS
				  42.06.530-42.06.570.
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 48.045 - Procedure to classify records as confidential

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) A person
				  wishing to protect a record filed with, served upon, or otherwise made
				  available to the commission must file with the commission a petition
				  identifying the record to be protected and setting out good cause, including
				  facts, reasons, or other grounds, for the commission to classify that record as
				  confidential. If, at the time of filing, the person wishes to protect a record
				  under this section, that person must stamp or otherwise mark the record as
				  "confidential," and must file that record separately from any public record. If
				  a person wishes to protect a record that has already been filed with the
				  commission, that person must file a request with the commission to have that
				  record marked as "confidential" and filed separately from any public record. A
				  person may not file electronically any confidential record, and any document
				  electronically filed with the commission is a public record in accordance with
				  AS
				  42.05.671(a) and
				  AS
				  42.06.445(a). The commission
				  will reject an electronic filing, without releasing it as a public record, if
				  the filing plainly contains confidential information. However, nothing in this
				  subsection requires or imposes a duty on the commission to screen a filing for
				  confidential information, and the commission will not screen a filing for
				  confidential information.
(b) Good
				  cause to classify a record as confidential under this section includes a
				  showing that
(1) disclosure of the record to
				  the public might competitively or financially disadvantage or harm the person
				  with confidentiality interest or might reveal a trade secret; and
(2) the need for confidentiality outweighs
				  the public interest in disclosure.
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 48.047 - Denial of petition to classify records as confidential

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) If the
				  commission denies a petition filed under
				  3 AAC 48.045, the commission will notify the petitioner
				  and any person opposing the petition of the commission's determination to deny
				  the petition.
(b) Within seven days
				  following service of notice of a determination denying the petition, the
				  petitioner may
(1) petition for
				  reconsideration; or
(2) petition to
				  withdraw the record.
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 48.049 - Access to confidential records

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) A confidential
				  record will not be made public or furnished to any person other than to the
				  commission, its advisory staff, its consultants, and other authorized
				  representatives, except under a subpoena duces tecum or as provided under (b) -
				  (h) of this section.
(b) A person
				  may file a written motion requesting access to a record that the commission has
				  designated as confidential. The motion must identify as specifically as
				  possible the record to which access is sought and must set out the reasons
				  access is sought.
(c) The person
				  filing the motion described in (a) of this section shall serve the person with
				  confidentiality interests in the record with a copy of the motion. Within 15
				  days following service of the motion, the person with confidentiality interests
				  in the record may submit its response.
(d) The commission will, at the earliest
				  possible time, issue its determination to grant or deny the motion requesting
				  access, as follows:
(1) if the commission
				  determines that the record should be made public, the commission will notify
				  the person filing the motion and the person with confidentiality interests in
				  the record of the commission's intent to release the record;
(2) within seven days following service of
				  the notice of the commission's intent to release, the person with
				  confidentiality interests in the record may petition for reconsideration or for
				  withdrawal of the record;
(3) if
				  neither reconsideration nor withdrawal of the record is requested, the record
				  becomes public at the end of the seven-day period prescribed in (2) of this
				  subsection;
(4) if reconsideration
				  or withdrawal of the record is requested under (2) of this subsection and the
				  request is denied, the commission will notify the person with confidentiality
				  interest in the record and the person filing the motion for access and the
				  record becomes public on the date set out in the commission's order denying
				  reconsideration or withdrawal;
(5)
				  if a petition for reconsideration or for withdrawal of the record is granted,
				  the commission will issue an order that reclassifies the record as confidential
				  or restricts access to it.
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 48.050 - Inspection of records and facilities

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) The facilities
				  and records of a public utility, electric reliability organization, or pipeline
				  carrier are not available to the public for inspection, copying or any purpose,
				  other than to furnish a service or commodity, except
(1) as otherwise provided by statute or by an
				  applicable rule, regulation, or general order of the commission;
(2) by specific order of the
				  commission;
(3) with the prior
				  voluntary consent of the utility, electric reliability organization, or
				  pipeline carrier; and
(4) upon
				  enforcement of a subpoena duces tecum or other legal process.
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 48.055 - Subpoenas

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) A subpoena duces tecum for the production
				  of books, records, papers, or other documents of any sort will be issued by the
				  commission, at its discretion, upon application. The subpoena will be under the
				  seal of the commission, on a commission form, and will describe the documents
				  ordered to be produced in sufficient detail to permit ready
				  identification.
(b) Applications
				  for the issuance of a subpoena requiring the attendance of a witness for the
				  purpose of taking oral testimony before the commission must be in writing and
				  may be made by letter or wire.
(c)
				  Unless otherwise directed by the commission, a subpoena or subpoena duces tecum
				  will be issued by the commission only upon verified application showing general
				  relevance and reasonable scope of the evidence sought. An application for a
				  subpoena duces tecum must also specify with particularity the books, papers, or
				  documents desired, and the facts expected to be proved by them. However, for
				  good cause shown, the officer presiding at a hearing may issue a subpoena or
				  subpoena duces tecum upon oral request made upon the record.
(d) A subpoena will be under the seal of the
				  commission, will be on a commission form, and will not be issued unless the
				  applicant establishes that the applicant has a proper relationship to the
				  matter and gives the name and address of the desired witness.
(e) Signed and sealed blank subpoenas or
				  subpoenas duces tecum will not be issued to anyone. The name and address of the
				  witness will be inserted in the original subpoena, a copy of which will be
				  filed in the proceeding. A subpoena or a subpoena duces tecum will show at
				  whose request the subpoena is issued.
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 48.060 - Formal and informal procedures and files

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) The commission
				  shall maintain separate files for all formal proceedings, assign a docket
				  number and an appropriate caption to each formal proceeding and maintain a
				  docket book. The docket pages for each proceeding shall contain
(1) the assigned docket number and caption of
				  the proceeding;
(2) the date the
				  proceeding was instituted;
(3) the
				  general nature, filing party and date of each order, filing and
				  submittal;
(4) the name of the
				  court, and number assigned by the court to any order that is
				  appealed;
(5) a cross-reference
				  showing the order book and page where the original copy of each order is
				  filed.
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 48.070 - Formal proceedings

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) Except as otherwise provided by
				  3 AAC 48.030 and
				  3 AAC 48.650, an application for a certificate of public
				  convenience and necessity or electric reliability organization certificate or
				  for the revision, sale, lease, rental, or inheritance of a certificate; or for
				  the authority to acquire a controlling interest in a certificated public
				  utility, electric reliability organization, or pipeline carrier; or any other
				  application required by AS 42.05 or AS 42.06, will be docketed and considered
				  in a formal proceeding.
(b) A
				  tariff filing will not be docketed or considered in a formal proceeding unless
				  it is suspended by order of the commission within the statutory notice period,
				  or within the regulatory notice period set under 3 AAC 46.320 for an electric
				  reliability organization.
(c) The
				  commission may institute a formal proceeding in regard to any jurisdictional
				  matter, either on its own motion or on complaint.
(d) An electric reliability organization rule
				  or petition for a new or revised integrated resource plan under AS 42.05.780
				  will not be docketed or considered in a formal proceeding unless it is
				  suspended by order of the commission within the regulatory notice period set
				  under 3 AAC 46.260 for a new or revised integrated resource plan or 3 AAC 46.470 for an electric reliability organization rule.
Authority:
AS
						42.05.141
AS
						42.05.151
AS
						42.05.171
AS
						42.05.241
AS
						42.05.261
AS
						42.05.271
AS
						42.05.281
AS 42.05.770
AS 42.05.140
AS
						42.06.260
AS
						42.06.290
AS
						42.06.300
AS
						42.06.340
AS
						42.06.400