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Alaska Administrative Code › Title 3 - Commerce, Community, and Economic Development › Part 7 - Regulatory Commission of Alaska › Chapter 52 - Operation of Public Utilities › Article 9 - Plant Replacement and Improvement Surcharge Mechanism › 3 AAC 52.835 - Affiliated transactions

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) If an eligible
				  utility includes costs in its eligible capital costs from transactions with
				  affiliated interests, the utility must file the following information with each
				  periodic update of the surcharge rate:
(1)
				  the identity of each affiliated interest;
(2) a description of the relationship between
				  the utility and the affiliated interest;
(3) a list of the products and services
				  provided to the utility by the affiliated interest;
(4) the prices and quantity of products or
				  services provided to the utility by the affiliated interest;
(5) a list of alternative suppliers of the
				  product or services purchased from the affiliated interest; and
(6) if applicable, a report showing which
				  products or services provided to the utility by the affiliated interest are
				  also supplied to other customers by the affiliated interest, including prices
				  and quantities.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 3 - Commerce, Community, and Economic Development › Part 7 - Regulatory Commission of Alaska › Chapter 52 - Operation of Public Utilities › Article 9 - Plant Replacement and Improvement Surcharge Mechanism › 3 AAC 52.840 - Consumer protections

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) The plant
				  improvement surcharge rate for wastewater utilities may not exceed five percent
				  of the amount billed to customers under the otherwise applicable tariff rates.
(b) The plant improvement
				  surcharge rate for water utilities may not exceed 7.5 percent of the amount
				  billed to customers under the otherwise applicable tariff rates.
(c) The plant improvement surcharge rate must
				  be reset to zero at the effective date of revised base rates set in a general
				  rate case that incorporates the capital costs previously recovered through the
				  plant improvement surcharge.
(d)
				  The plant improvement surcharge rate may be reset to zero, or another reduced
				  rate that the commission establishes by order, if the commission, based on
				  annual report data or otherwise, and after notice and an opportunity to be
				  heard, finds that the utility's earned rate of return, including surcharge
				  revenues, exceeds the rate of return used to calculate the surcharge
				  rate.
Authority:
AS
						42.05.141
AS 42.05.151
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 3 - Commerce, Community, and Economic Development › Part 7 - Regulatory Commission of Alaska › Chapter 52 - Operation of Public Utilities › Article 9 - Plant Replacement and Improvement Surcharge Mechanism › 3 AAC 52.890 - Definitions

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) In
				  3 AAC 52.800 -
				  3 AAC 52.890, unless the context requires otherwise,
(1) "affiliated interest" has the meaning
				  given in AS 42.05.990;
(2) "capital costs" means depreciation
				  expense, return, and an allowance for taxes associated with utility plant;
(3) "eligible capital costs" means
				  capital costs associated with eligible plant that has become used and useful in
				  public utility service since the eligible water or wastewater utility's last
				  general rate case, or plant that will become used and useful before the next
				  periodic surcharge update, if, in either case, the plant is listed in the
				  eligible water or wastewater utility's most recent long-term infrastructure
				  improvement and asset optimization plans;
(4) "eligible water or wastewater utility"
(A) means a utility that holds a certificate
				  of public convenience and necessity to provide water or wastewater public
				  utility service and that is not exempt from economic regulation under any
				  provision of
				  AS
				  42.05.711;
(B) does not include a utility holding a
				  provisional certificate issued under
				  3 AAC 52.720;
(5) "improve," "improvement," or "improved"
				  means to repair or replace plant, or to modify or adapt plant to enhance its
				  function or longevity;
(6)
				  "quality of service" means the overall ability of a utility to provide and
				  maintain adequate, efficient, safe, reliable, and reasonable service, including
				  compliance with public health and environmental quality standards.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 3 - Commerce, Community, and Economic Development › Part 7 - Regulatory Commission of Alaska › Chapter 52 - Operation of Public Utilities › Article 10 - Joint Use of Utility Facilities › 3 AAC 52.900 - Application and purpose

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) The provisions
				  of 3 AAC 52.900 -
				  3 AAC 52.940 apply to all utilities included in the
				  definition of "public utility" in
				  AS
				  42.05.990.
(b) The purpose of
				  3 AAC 52.900 -
				  3 AAC 52.940 is to establish a method for reasonable
				  compensation for joint use if a utility owning a pole and another utility fail
				  to agree on compensation for joint use of the pole. An agreement for joint use
				  must be filed with the commission in accordance with
				  3 AAC 48.095. Absent unusual circumstances, the
				  commission will assert its authority over joint use only if the utilities
				  disagree on the terms of joint use or a joint use agreement, or if the
				  commission has reason to believe that the utilities are not acting in
				  accordance with the intent of AS 42.05.
Authority:
AS
						42.05.151
AS 42.05.311
AS
						42.05.321
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 3 - Commerce, Community, and Economic Development › Part 7 - Regulatory Commission of Alaska › Chapter 52 - Operation of Public Utilities › Article 10 - Joint Use of Utility Facilities › 3 AAC 52.910 - Joint use compensation

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) The commission will require an attaching
				  utility to compensate a pole-owning utility for joint use of a pole, in an
				  amount comprised of the sum of the following two elements:
(1) the additional costs to the pole-owning
				  utility for modifications or additions required by the attaching utility's
				  joint use of a pole;
(2) an annual
				  amount determined by multiplying the percentage of total usable space on a pole
				  occupied by the attaching utility's facilities times the total annual cost of
				  the jointly used pole.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 3 - Commerce, Community, and Economic Development › Part 7 - Regulatory Commission of Alaska › Chapter 52 - Operation of Public Utilities › Article 10 - Joint Use of Utility Facilities › 3 AAC 52.920 - Elements used in developing annual joint use rate

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) In the formula
				  in 3 AAC 52.910(b),
				  "total usable space" and "occupied space" are determined from studies performed
				  by the utilities. If a utility does not have acceptable studies of actual
				  usable and occupied space, the commission will apply the following
				  presumptions:
(1) the occupied space for
				  telecommunications pole attachments is one foot;
(2) the total usable space on a pole is 13.5
				  feet;
(3) the total unusable space
				  on a pole is 24 feet;
(4) the total
				  height of a pole is 37.5 feet.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 3 - Commerce, Community, and Economic Development › Part 7 - Regulatory Commission of Alaska › Chapter 52 - Operation of Public Utilities › Article 10 - Joint Use of Utility Facilities › 3 AAC 52.930 - Procedure

Current through May 31, 2024
If an attaching utility and a pole-owning utility cannot
					 reach agreement on a joint-use issue, including compensation, a complaint may
					 be filed with the commission, and served on the other party, in accordance with
					 3 AAC 48.095, setting out the relevant facts and asking
					 for relief. The other party may file an answer to the complaint within 20 days
					 after service of that complaint.
Authority:
AS
						42.05.151
AS 42.05.311
AS
						42.05.321
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 3 - Commerce, Community, and Economic Development › Part 7 - Regulatory Commission of Alaska › Chapter 52 - Operation of Public Utilities › Article 10 - Joint Use of Utility Facilities › 3 AAC 52.940 - Definitions

Current through May 31, 2024
Unless the context indicates otherwise, in
					 3 AAC 52.900 -
					 3 AAC 52.940,
(1) "administrative expense" means
				  administrative expense as defined in the Uniform System of Accounts prescribed
				  in 3 AAC 48.277 for a pole-owning
				  utility, or as defined in a comparable accounting system if in use by the
				  particular pole-owning utility;
(2)
				  "gross pole investment" includes gross investment for bare distribution poles
				  in the pole accounts in the Uniform System of Accounts prescribed in
				  3 AAC 48.277 for a pole-owning utility, or in a
				  comparable accounting system if in use by the particular utility;
(3) "maintenance expense" means maintenance
				  expense as defined in the Uniform System of Accounts prescribed in
				  3 AAC 48.277 for a utility, or as defined in a
				  comparable accounting system if in use by the particular utility;
(4) "pole attachment" means any attachment by
				  a utility to a utility pole;
(5)
				  "usable space" for pole attachments means the space on a pole above the minimum
				  grade level, as set out in the edition of the National Electrical Safety Code
				  adopted in
				  AS
				  18.60.580, which can be used for the
				  attachment of wires, cables, and associated equipment;
(6) "attaching utility" means a public
				  utility that attaches its facilities to, or places its facilities on, the pole
				  of another utility; "attaching utility" does not include a utility that
				  attaches to its own poles.
Authority:
AS
						42.05.151
AS 42.05.311
AS
						42.05.321
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 3 - Commerce, Community, and Economic Development › Part 7 - Regulatory Commission of Alaska › Chapter 53 - Telecommunications › Article 1 - Simplified Rate Filing and Jurisdictional Cost Allocation Factor Adjustment Procedures for Local Exchange Carriers › 3 AAC 53.010 - Applicability, purpose, and waiver

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) The provisions
				  of 3 AAC 53.010 -
				  3 AAC 53.140 apply to all local exchange carriers
				  subject to economic regulation by the commission.
(b) The purpose of
				  3 AAC 53.010 -
				  3 AAC 53.140 is
(1) to
				  implement AS 42.05.381(e)
				  by establishing a simplified rate filing procedure and a range or adjustment of
				  local service rates; and
(2) to
				  implement AS 42.05.381(f)
				  by establishing a procedure to adjust local service rates for changes in
				  jurisdictional cost allocation factors.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 3 - Commerce, Community, and Economic Development › Part 7 - Regulatory Commission of Alaska › Chapter 53 - Telecommunications › Article 1 - Simplified Rate Filing and Jurisdictional Cost Allocation Factor Adjustment Procedures for Local Exchange Carriers › 3 AAC 53.020 - General provisions regarding simplified rate filing procedures

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) A
				  local service rate adjustment allowed under
				  3 AAC 53.010 -
				  3 AAC 53.100 may not exceed a six percent increase in
				  any 12-month period or a cumulative 15 percent increase in a three-year period.
				  For a cost company, the allowed adjustments exclude adjustments for changes in
				  jurisdictional cost allocation factors processed under
				  3 AAC 53.110 -
				  3 AAC 53.130.
(b) For good cause shown, the commission
				  will, in its discretion, revoke or deny a local exchange carrier's permission
				  to use simplified rate filing procedures or its authority to adjust rates under
				  the procedures in
				  3 AAC 53.030 -
				  3 AAC 53.100.
(c) A local exchange carrier that uses the
				  procedures of
				  3 AAC 53.010 -
				  3 AAC 53.140 is not precluded from filing a general rate
				  case under 3 AAC 43.275(a).
Authority:
AS
						42.05.141
AS 42.05.151
AS 42.05.381
AS 42.05.411
AS 42.05.421
AS
						42.05.431
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 3 - Commerce, Community, and Economic Development › Part 7 - Regulatory Commission of Alaska › Chapter 53 - Telecommunications › Article 1 - Simplified Rate Filing and Jurisdictional Cost Allocation Factor Adjustment Procedures for Local Exchange Carriers › 3 AAC 53.030 - Procedural requirements for cost companies

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) A cost company
				  shall provide notice of its intent to adjust its local service rates under the
				  simplified rate filing procedures at the time that it files its annual access
				  charge revenue requirement study with the commission. To implement that intent,
				  the company shall file the supporting information required by
				  3 AAC 53.040(a) no later than 60 days
				  after commission approval of intrastate access charges based on the
				  study.
(b) A rate adjustment filing
				  under 3 AAC 53.030 -
				  3 AAC 53.060 is governed by
				  3 AAC 48.220 -
				  3 AAC 48.440, except for
				  3 AAC 48.275(a).
Authority:
AS
						42.05.141
AS 42.05.151
AS 42.05.381
AS 42.05.411
AS 42.05.421
AS
						42.05.431
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 3 - Commerce, Community, and Economic Development › Part 7 - Regulatory Commission of Alaska › Chapter 53 - Telecommunications › Article 1 - Simplified Rate Filing and Jurisdictional Cost Allocation Factor Adjustment Procedures for Local Exchange Carriers › 3 AAC 53.040 - Supporting information for cost companies

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) In addition to
				  the information filed under (b) of this section, the basis of the simplified
				  rate filing procedure for a cost company is the information filed by the
				  company and approved by the commission in the company's annual access charge
				  proceeding.
(b) A cost company
				  using the simplified rate filing procedures to adjust its local service rates
				  shall file with the commission the following information:
(1) a schedule showing the computation and
				  narrative explanation of pro forma adjustments to test year local service
				  operating revenue and the adjusted amount of local service operating revenues
				  by account;
(2) a schedule showing
				  Universal Service Fund receipts for the test year;
(3) a schedule showing total company
				  operating expenses, operating taxes, and rate base, as approved by the
				  commission in the determination of the company's intrastate access charge
				  revenue requirement, and the amounts of each allocated to local exchange and
				  local private line service for the test year;
(4) a schedule showing the calculation of pro
				  forma income tax on local service operations for the test year;
(5) a calculation of the weighted average
				  cost of debt at the end of the test year;
(6) a schedule showing the cost of capital
				  based on actual capital structure at the end of the test year, which structure
				  may not exceed 50 percent equity, actual weighted cost of debt, and a rate of
				  return on equity of 13.5 percent;
(7) a schedule prepared in accordance with
				  3 AAC 53.050 showing the computation of local exchange
				  service and local private line service revenue requirements and revenue
				  deficiency or surplus, in both absolute dollars and percentage of revenues
				  subject to rate adjustment for the test year;
(8) a schedule showing the percentage and
				  amount of rate adjustment requested, if different from (7) of this subsection;
				  and
(9) a schedule showing the
				  amount of the proposed rate adjustment to all permanent recurring local rates
				  and charges eligible for the rate adjustment.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 3 - Commerce, Community, and Economic Development › Part 7 - Regulatory Commission of Alaska › Chapter 53 - Telecommunications › Article 1 - Simplified Rate Filing and Jurisdictional Cost Allocation Factor Adjustment Procedures for Local Exchange Carriers › 3 AAC 53.050 - Computation of local revenue requirement and rate adjustment for cost companies

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) The company shall include the following
				  items in calculating its local service revenue requirement:
(1) all items recorded or properly classified
				  as "Local Network Service Revenues" by Part 32 of the Federal Communications
				  Commission regulations (   47 C.F.R. Part 32 ), as adopted by the commission at
				  3 AAC 48.277(a) (1) -
				  3 AAC 48.277(a)(5), including items
				  properly classified into accounts 5000 - 5069;
(2) all universal Service Fund
				  receipts;
(3) all "Miscellaneous
				  Revenues" that are of a local character or are not directly derived from
				  interexchange, nonregulated, or other sources and are properly classified into
				  accounts 5200 - 5265 by Part 32 of the Federal Communications Commission
				  regulations ( 47 C.F.R. Part 32), as adopted by the commission at
				  3 AAC 48.277(a) (1) -
				  3 AAC 48.277(a) (5); and
(4) any other revenues specified by the
				  commission as local in character.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 3 - Commerce, Community, and Economic Development › Part 7 - Regulatory Commission of Alaska › Chapter 53 - Telecommunications › Article 1 - Simplified Rate Filing and Jurisdictional Cost Allocation Factor Adjustment Procedures for Local Exchange Carriers › 3 AAC 53.060 - Application of rate adjustments for cost companies

Current through May 31, 2024
A rate adjustment granted to a cost company under
					 3 AAC 53.030 -
					 3 AAC 53.060 is computed separately for local exchange
					 service and local private line service and applied as an across-the-board
					 percentage adjustment to all recurring monthly charges within each of those
					 classifications, including, unless specifically waived by the commission, items
					 with rates established by special contract. However, a rate adjustment under
					 this section may not be applied to directory assistance or public pay telephone
					 charges.
Authority:
AS
						42.05.141
AS 42.05.151
AS 42.05.381
AS 42.05.411
AS 42.05.421
AS
						42.05.431
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 3 - Commerce, Community, and Economic Development › Part 7 - Regulatory Commission of Alaska › Chapter 53 - Telecommunications › Article 1 - Simplified Rate Filing and Jurisdictional Cost Allocation Factor Adjustment Procedures for Local Exchange Carriers › 3 AAC 53.070 - Procedural requirements for average schedule companies

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) A rate
				  adjustment filing under
				  3 AAC 53.070 -
				  3 AAC 53.100 is governed by
				  3 AAC 48.220 -
				  3 AAC 48.440, except for
				  3 AAC 48.275(a) and
				  3 AAC 48.430.
(b) An average schedule company seeking to
				  adjust its local service rates shall file the information required by
				  3 AAC 53.080 no later than 60 days after the filing of
				  its annual report in accordance with
				  AS
				  42.05.451(b).
Authority:
AS
						42.05.141
AS 42.35.151
AS 42.05.381
AS 42.05.411
AS 42.05.421
AS
						42.05.431
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 3 - Commerce, Community, and Economic Development › Part 7 - Regulatory Commission of Alaska › Chapter 53 - Telecommunications › Article 1 - Simplified Rate Filing and Jurisdictional Cost Allocation Factor Adjustment Procedures for Local Exchange Carriers › 3 AAC 53.080 - Supporting information for average schedule companies

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) In addition to
				  the information filed under (b) of this section, the basis of the simplified
				  rate filing procedure for an average schedule company is the information filed
				  by the company in its annual report under
				  AS
				  42.05.451(b), with
				  appropriate ratemaking adjustments.
(b) An average schedule company using the
				  simplified rate filing procedures to adjust its local service rates shall file
				  with the commission the following information:
(1) a schedule showing the computation and
				  narrative explanation of pro forma adjustments to test year operating revenues,
				  operating expenses, and rate base;
(2) a schedule showing the computation of a
				  simple average rate base for the test year;
(3) a schedule showing the calculation of pro
				  forma income tax for the test year;
(4) a schedule prepared in accordance with
				  3 AAC 53.090 showing the computation of total company
				  revenue requirement and revenue deficiency or surplus, in both absolute dollars
				  and percentage of revenues subject to rate adjustment for the test
				  year;
(5) a schedule showing the
				  percentage and amount of rate adjustment requested, if different from (4) of
				  this section;
(6) a schedule
				  showing the amount of the proposed rate adjustment to all recurring permanent
				  tariffed rates and charges for local service;
(7) the audited, reviewed, or compiled
				  financial statements of the company, including opinion and all footnotes, or an
				  affidavit stating that such financial statements are not available;
				  and
(8) a fluctuation analysis
				  explaining any variation of more than 10 percent from the preceding year for
				  each Class B operating account as described in Part 32 of the Federal
				  Communications Commission regulations (  47 C.F.R. Part 32) and adopted by the
				  commission at
				  3 AAC 48.277(a) (1) - (a)(5). A company
				  with less than $1,000,000 in annual revenues is exempt from this requirement.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 3 - Commerce, Community, and Economic Development › Part 7 - Regulatory Commission of Alaska › Chapter 53 - Telecommunications › Article 1 - Simplified Rate Filing and Jurisdictional Cost Allocation Factor Adjustment Procedures for Local Exchange Carriers › 3 AAC 53.090 - Computation of revenue requirement and rate adjustment for average schedule companies

Current through May 31, 2024
The revenue requirement and allowable rate adjustment for
					 an average schedule company are computed based on total company regulated
					 results of operations and rate base and a rate of return on simple average rate
					 base of 11 percent, except that nonregulated transactions are
					 excluded.
Authority:
AS
						42.05.141
AS 42.05.151
AS 42.05.381
AS 42.05.411
AS 42.05.421
AS
						42.05.431
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 3 - Commerce, Community, and Economic Development › Part 7 - Regulatory Commission of Alaska › Chapter 53 - Telecommunications › Article 1 - Simplified Rate Filing and Jurisdictional Cost Allocation Factor Adjustment Procedures for Local Exchange Carriers › 3 AAC 53.100 - Application of rate adjustments for average schedule companies

Current through May 31, 2024
A rate adjustment granted to an average schedule company
					 under 3 AAC 53.070 -
					 3 AAC 53.100 is computed and applied as an
					 across-the-board increase to all recurring tariffed charges for local service,
					 including, unless specifically waived by the commission, items with rates
					 established by special contract. However, a rate adjustment under this section
					 may not be applied to directory assistance or public pay telephone
					 charges.
Authority:
AS
						42.05.141
AS 42.05.151
AS 42.05.381
AS 42.05.411
AS 42.05.421
AS
						42.05.431
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 3 - Commerce, Community, and Economic Development › Part 7 - Regulatory Commission of Alaska › Chapter 53 - Telecommunications › Article 1 - Simplified Rate Filing and Jurisdictional Cost Allocation Factor Adjustment Procedures for Local Exchange Carriers › 3 AAC 53.110 - Procedural requirements for changes in jurisdictional cost allocation factors

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) A cost company may apply to adjust its
				  local rates to comply with changes in jurisdictional cost allocation factors
				  required by the Federal Communications Commission or the commission by filing
				  the supporting information listed in
				  3 AAC 53.120.
(b) A filing under
				  3 AAC 53.110 -
				  3 AAC 53.130 is governed by
				  3 AAC 48.220 -
				  3 AAC 48.440, except for
				  3 AAC 48.275(a).
Authority:
AS
						42.05.141
AS 42.05.151
AS 42.05.381
AS 42.05.411
AS 42.05.421
AS
						42.05.431
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 3 - Commerce, Community, and Economic Development › Part 7 - Regulatory Commission of Alaska › Chapter 53 - Telecommunications › Article 1 - Simplified Rate Filing and Jurisdictional Cost Allocation Factor Adjustment Procedures for Local Exchange Carriers › 3 AAC 53.120 - Supporting information for changes in jurisdictional cost allocation factors

Current through May 31, 2024
To adjust local service rates due to changes in
					 jurisdictional cost allocation factors required by the Federal Communications
					 Commission or the commission, a cost company shall file the following
					 information:
(1) a copy of the Federal
				  Communications Commission order requiring a change in jurisdictional cost
				  allocation factors;
(2) a
				  computation based on the most recent access charge filing of the company
				  approved by the commission, showing the amount of the shift in costs due to
				  changes in jurisdictional cost allocation factors, segregated by service
				  classes or categories, with supporting schedules showing:
(A) the factors used to allocate costs, and
				  the costs allocated, to local service before the change in factors;
(B) the factors used to allocate costs, and
				  the costs allocated, to local service after the change in factors;
				  and
(C) a computation and
				  explanation of the different factors;
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 3 - Commerce, Community, and Economic Development › Part 7 - Regulatory Commission of Alaska › Chapter 53 - Telecommunications › Article 1 - Simplified Rate Filing and Jurisdictional Cost Allocation Factor Adjustment Procedures for Local Exchange Carriers › 3 AAC 53.130 - Application of rate adjustments due to changes in jurisdictional cost allocation factors

Current through May 31, 2024
A rate adjustment granted to a cost company under
					 3 AAC 53.110 -
					 3 AAC 53.130 is computed and applied as an
					 across-the-board increase to all recurring tariffed charges for local service,
					 including, unless specifically waived by the commission, items with rates
					 established by special contract. However, a rate adjustment under this section
					 may not be applied to directory assistance or public pay telephone
					 charges.
Authority:
AS
						42.05.141
AS 42.05.151
AS 42.05.381
AS 42.05.411
AS 42.05.421
AS
						42.05.431
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 3 - Commerce, Community, and Economic Development › Part 7 - Regulatory Commission of Alaska › Chapter 53 - Telecommunications › Article 1 - Simplified Rate Filing and Jurisdictional Cost Allocation Factor Adjustment Procedures for Local Exchange Carriers › 3 AAC 53.140 - Definitions

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) Unless the context indicates otherwise,
				  in 3 AAC 53.010 -
				  3 AAC 53.130
(1)
				  "average schedule company" means a local exchange carrier that does not perform
				  jurisdictional cost separations in accordance with
				  3 AAC 48.430 and is not required to file with the
				  commission an annual access charge revenue requirement study in accordance with
				  Sections 701 and 702 of the Alaska Intrastate Interexchange Access Charge
				  Manual identified in
				  3 AAC 48.440;
(2) "cost company" means a local exchange
				  carrier that performs jurisdictional cost separations in accordance with
				  3 AAC 48.430 and files with the commission an annual
				  access charge revenue requirement study in accordance with Sections 701 and 702
				  of the Alaska Intrastate Interexchange Access Charge Manual identified in
				  3 AAC 48.440;
(3) "local service" means all services, both
				  switched and unswitched, offered for sale by a local exchange carrier through
				  its local tariff or special contracts;
(4) "simple average" means the arithmetic
				  mean of beginning-of-year and end-of-year balance sheet accounts or groupings
				  of accounts; and
(5) "Universal
				  Service Fund receipts" means the annual revenues obtained by a local exchange
				  carrier, because its loop costs exceed the national average, from funds
				  administered by the National Exchange Carrier Association and computed in
				  accordance with the provisions of 47 C.F.R. Parts 36 and 69 as required by the
				  Federal Communications Commission.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 3 - Commerce, Community, and Economic Development › Part 7 - Regulatory Commission of Alaska › Chapter 53 - Telecommunications › Article 3 - Procedures for Changing an Authorized Telecommunications Carrier › 3 AAC 53.190 - Procedures for changing an authorized telecommunications carrier

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) The provisions
				  of 47 C.F.R.
				  64.1100-
				  64.1195, revised as of April 2,
				  2001, are adopted by reference and set out the procedures for changing a
				  subscriber's authorized intrastate, local exchange, or interstate
				  telecommunications carrier in this state. The procedures adopted by this
				  section also apply to an interstate telecommunications carrier providing
				  international telecommunications service in this state.
(b) Notwithstanding (a) of this section, an
				  intrastate interexchange or local exchange carrier that has not received a
				  certificate of public convenience and necessity from the commission may not
				  solicit, collect, or submit authorization to reassign a subscriber's access
				  line.
(c) The requirements of (a)
				  and (b) of this section do not apply if a local exchange carrier requests
				  another local exchange carrier to modify the underlying arrangement by which
				  the requesting local exchange carrier provides services to its own existing
				  customers, such as changing service from resale to unbundled loop.
(d) The commission will waive the assessment
				  of penalties or other enforcement action against a telecommunications carrier
				  that complies with carrier-change rules of the Federal Communications
				  Commission that are more recent than those adopted under (a) of this
				  section.
(e) Repealed
				  11/22/2017.
A copy of
						47 C.F.R.
						64.1100- 1195 referred to in
						3 AAC 53.190(a) is available for
						inspection at the Regulatory Commission of Alaska, 701 W. Eighth Avenue, Suite
						300, Anchorage, Alaska. A copy of
						47 C.F.R.
						64.1190- 1195 may also be obtained from the
						Federal Communications Commission, 445 12th Street S.W., Washington, D.C.
						20554.
Authority:
AS
						42.05.141
AS
						42.05.151
AS
						42.05.221
AS
						42.05.241
AS
						42.05.711
AS
						42.05.800
AS
						42.05.810
AS
						42.05.990
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 3 - Commerce, Community, and Economic Development › Part 7 - Regulatory Commission of Alaska › Chapter 53 - Telecommunications › Article 3 - Procedures for Changing an Authorized Telecommunications Carrier › 3 AAC 53.199 - Definitions

Current through May 31, 2024
Unless defined otherwise in
					 47 C.F.R.
					 64.1100 -
					 64.1195, as adopted by reference
					 in 3 AAC 53.190(a),
					 terms used in
					 3 AAC 53.190 have the meanings given in
					 3 AAC 48.820,
					 3 AAC 52.340,
					 3 AAC 52.399, and
					 3 AAC 53.299.
Authority:
AS
						42.05.141
AS 42.05.151
AS 42.05.311
AS 42.05.321
AS 42.05.800
AS
						42.05.810
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 3 - Commerce, Community, and Economic Development › Part 7 - Regulatory Commission of Alaska › Chapter 53 - Telecommunications › Article 4 - Local Exchange Competition › 3 AAC 53.200 - Applicability of local exchange competition provisions, purpose, and waiver

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) The provisions of
				  3 AAC 53.200 -
				  3 AAC 53.299 apply to all local exchange carriers that
				  furnish local exchange telephone service within a competitive local exchange
				  market as designated under
				  3 AAC 53.205. The provisions of
				  3 AAC 53.210,
				  3 AAC 53.245,
				  3 AAC 53.290(a)(2), and
				  3 AAC 53.220(d) apply in noncompetitive
				  areas also.
(b) The purpose of
				  3 AAC 53.200 -
				  3 AAC 53.299 is to allow competition in providing local
				  exchange telephone service to the extent possible while maintaining and
				  promoting universal local exchange telephone service, fair treatment of
				  competitors and consumers, and a modern telecommunications
				  infrastructure.
(c) For good cause
				  shown, the commission will, in its discretion, waive the application of all or
				  any portion of
				  3 AAC 53.200 -
				  3 AAC 53.299 to a local exchange carrier and establish
				  appropriate criteria for that carrier.
(d) The provisions of
				  3 AAC 53.220,
				  3 AAC 53.240,
				  3 AAC 53.243,
				  3 AAC 53.245,
				  3 AAC 53.290(b),
				  3 AAC 53.290(f), and
				  3 AAC 53.290(h) do not apply to a local
				  exchange carrier exempt from regulation under
				  AS
				  42.05.711.
Authority:
AS
						42.05.141
AS
						42.05.151
AS
						42.05.221
AS
						42.05.711
AS
						42.05.990
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 3 - Commerce, Community, and Economic Development › Part 7 - Regulatory Commission of Alaska › Chapter 53 - Telecommunications › Article 4 - Local Exchange Competition › 3 AAC 53.205 - Competitive local exchange markets

Current through May 31, 2024
For purposes of
					 3 AAC 53.200 -
					 3 AAC 53.299, a competitive local exchange market is, as
					 designated by an order of the commission, a local exchange or a group of local
					 exchanges within one certificated service area where multiple unaffiliated
					 telecommunications providers are certificated to provide local exchange
					 service. However, upon petition or on its own motion, the commission by order
					 may designate an area as a competitive local exchange market or a
					 noncompetitive area based on the nature and extent of competition available,
					 including competition by a competitor that is not
					 certificated.
Authority:
AS
						42.05.141
AS 42.05.145
AS 42.05.151
AS 42.05.291
AS
						42.05.800
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 3 - Commerce, Community, and Economic Development › Part 7 - Regulatory Commission of Alaska › Chapter 53 - Telecommunications › Article 4 - Local Exchange Competition › 3 AAC 53.220 - Determination of dominant or nondominant carrier status

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) A local
				  exchange carrier is a dominant carrier for retail service in an exchange unless
				  the commission orders, upon a petition or on its own motion, that the carrier
				  is nondominant in an exchange
(1) served by a
				  rural telephone company, as defined by
				  47 U.S.C.
				  153(44) and where a second
				  unaffiliated certificated facilities-based local exchange carrier offers
				  service to the public;
(2) where
				  the local exchange carrier's and its combined affiliates' local exchange market
				  share in the exchange is 60 percent or less; or
(3) where at least two unaffiliated local
				  exchange carriers
(A) are eligible
				  telecommunications carriers; and
(B) each individually have a market share of
				  20 percent or more in that exchange.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 3 - Commerce, Community, and Economic Development › Part 7 - Regulatory Commission of Alaska › Chapter 53 - Telecommunications › Article 4 - Local Exchange Competition › 3 AAC 53.230 - Discontinuance, suspension, or abandonment of service

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) A local
				  exchange carrier may discontinue, suspend, or abandon a local exchange
				  telephone service at a location with commission approval under
				  AS
				  42.05.261.
(b) A local exchange carrier proposing to
				  discontinue, suspend, or abandon service under (a) of this section must file a
				  plan for the transfer of its customers to another carrier. The plan must be
				  filed with the commission at the same time the carrier files its application to
				  discontinue, suspend, or abandon local exchange telephone service.
Authority:
AS
						42.05.141
AS 42.05.151
AS 42.05.221
AS 42.05.241
AS 42.05.711
AS
						42.05.990
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 3 - Commerce, Community, and Economic Development › Part 7 - Regulatory Commission of Alaska › Chapter 53 - Telecommunications › Article 4 - Local Exchange Competition › 3 AAC 53.240 - Retail services for which there is a dominant carrier

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) The provisions
				  of (b) - (d) of this section apply to all retail services in a competitive
				  local exchange market that are not subject to
				  3 AAC 53.243.
(b) A nondominant carrier shall maintain a
				  current tariff of retail rates and all special contracts for retail rates on
				  file with the commission. A nondominant carrier may modify retail rates and
				  implement special contracts for retail services without approval of the
				  commission after 30 days' notice to the commission of a tariff filing submitted
				  in accordance with
				  3 AAC 48.220,
				  3 AAC 48.270, and
				  3 AAC 53.290(f).
(c) A dominant carrier shall maintain a
				  current tariff of retail rates and all special contracts for retail rates on
				  file with the commission. A dominant carrier may reduce retail rates, offer new
				  or re-packaged services, and implement special contracts for retail services
				  without approval of the commission after 30 days' notice to the commission of a
				  tariff filing submitted in accordance with
				  3 AAC 48.220, 3 AAC 48.270, and
				  3 AAC 53.290(f). A tariff revision by a
				  dominant carrier to increase a rate is subject to the provisions of
				  3 AAC 48.200 -
				  3 AAC 48.430.
(d) Notwithstanding (b) or (c) of this
				  section, the commission will deny and require modification of rates or terms or
				  conditions of service that
(1) are not just
				  and reasonable;
(2) grant a
				  customer an unreasonable preference or advantage; or
(3) subject a customer to an unreasonable
				  prejudice or disadvantage.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 3 - Commerce, Community, and Economic Development › Part 7 - Regulatory Commission of Alaska › Chapter 53 - Telecommunications › Article 4 - Local Exchange Competition › 3 AAC 53.243 - Retail services for which there is no dominant carrier

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) This section
				  applies to retail services, including any services specified in
				  3 AAC 53.220(c) or provided for under
				  3 AAC 53.220(e), if there is no local
				  exchange carrier in the competitive local exchange market with dominant carrier
				  status for the services. Notwithstanding any other provisions of this section
				  or 3 AAC 53.220, in a competitive
				  local exchange market that is served by a local exchange carrier that is exempt
				  from economic regulation under the provision of
				  AS
				  42.05.711(b) or under the
				  provisions of
				  AS
				  42.05.711(h) and
				  42.05.712, this section applies to
				  all other local exchange carriers serving that local exchange market.
(b) A nondominant carrier shall maintain a
				  current tariff of retail rates and services, and all special contracts for
				  retail rates and services on the carrier's website. The carrier must also
				  either maintain a written copy of its current tariff of retail rates and all
				  special contracts for retail rates or provide customers electronic access to
				  that tariff and each special contract at the carrier's primary business office.
				  The carrier must notify the commission of the carrier's website address,
				  including any changes to the address.
(c) Without approval of the commission, and
				  after compliance with the requirements of ( d) and ( e) of this section, a
				  local exchange carrier may implement
(1) a
				  change to retail rates and terms and conditions for local exchange service;
(2) a new retail
				  service;
(3) a modification to an
				  existing retail service;
(4) a
				  bundled service that includes a local exchange service component unless the
				  bundled service also includes a discounted intrastate interexchange
				  component;
(5) a special contract
				  for retail rates and services, if it
(A)
				  includes a statement that the special contract is, at all times, subject to
				  revision by the commission; and
(B)
				  is not associated with a petition for confidential treatment filed under
				  3 AAC 48.045; and
(6) a change in general rules and regulations
				  for local exchange service.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 3 - Commerce, Community, and Economic Development › Part 7 - Regulatory Commission of Alaska › Chapter 53 - Telecommunications › Article 4 - Local Exchange Competition › 3 AAC 53.245 - Competitive entry rate modification

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) An incumbent
				  local exchange carrier may petition the commission to modify its existing
				  retail local exchange rates to establish new rates for the noncompetitive area
				  if the carrier
(1) is a rural telephone
				  company as defined in 47
				  U.S.C. 153(44);
				  and
(2) demonstrates that a
				  competitor may enter the incumbent local exchange carrier's service
				  area.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 3 - Commerce, Community, and Economic Development › Part 7 - Regulatory Commission of Alaska › Chapter 53 - Telecommunications › Article 4 - Local Exchange Competition › 3 AAC 53.250 - Wholesale service and rates

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) A local
				  exchange carrier shall offer all its services for resale to other carriers
				  consistent with 47 U.S.C.
				  251 and
				  252 (Telecommunications Act of
				  1996).
(b) Repealed
				  9/16/2005.
Authority:
AS
						42.05.141
AS 42.05.151
AS 42.05.221
AS 42.05.241
AS 42.05.431
AS 42.05.711
AS
						42.05.990
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 3 - Commerce, Community, and Economic Development › Part 7 - Regulatory Commission of Alaska › Chapter 53 - Telecommunications › Article 4 - Local Exchange Competition › 3 AAC 53.265 - Local exchange carriers of last resort

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) A local
				  exchange carrier that is designated as a carrier of last resort
(1) shall provide and maintain adequate,
				  efficient, and safe facilities-based essential retail and carrier-to-carrier
				  telecommunication services of similar quality throughout its carrier of last
				  resort area; and
(2) may not allow
				  any diminution of quality or availability of essential retail and
				  carrier-to-carrier telecommunication services throughout its carrier of last
				  resort area after designation.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 3 - Commerce, Community, and Economic Development › Part 7 - Regulatory Commission of Alaska › Chapter 53 - Telecommunications › Article 4 - Local Exchange Competition › 3 AAC 53.290 - Miscellaneous provisions

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) Except as
				  provided in
				  3 AAC 48.440 and the
Alaska Intrastate
				  Interexchange Access Charge Manual
, adopted by reference in
				  3 AAC 48.440, the provisions of
(1)3 AAC 48.275 do not apply to those services for which the
				  carrier is a nondominant carrier; and
(2)3 AAC 48.277 and
				  3 AAC 48.430
(A) do
				  not apply to a local exchange carrier
(i)
				  after its application for certification to provide local exchange telephone
				  service in competition to an existing local exchange carrier is granted;
				  or
(ii) for services in an area
				  designated by the commission as a competitive local exchange market;
				  and
(B) apply,
				  notwithstanding (A) of this paragraph, to a local exchange carrier whose
(i) costs are used as the basis for
				  determining intrastate access charge rate caps; or
(ii) costs or rates are used as the basis for
				  determining state universal service support under
				  3 AAC 53.300 -
				  3 AAC 53.399.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 3 - Commerce, Community, and Economic Development › Part 7 - Regulatory Commission of Alaska › Chapter 53 - Telecommunications › Article 4 - Local Exchange Competition › 3 AAC 53.295 - Bundled services

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) A local exchange carrier that offers
				  service in a competitive local exchange market may bundle services subject to
				  the limitations stated in (b) and (c) of this section.
(b) A local exchange carrier that offers a
				  bundled service shall, in its tariff provision describing the bundled service
				  offering and in the public notice of any proposed bundled service tariff
				  provision, separately identify the rates for local or intrastate interexchange
				  services included in the bundle. Any intrastate interexchange service included
				  in the bundle must be offered in all locations where the carrier offers
				  intrastate interexchange service on a 1-plus direct-dialed basis at the rate
				  specified in the tariff.
(c) A
				  local exchange carrier that offers a bundled service shall offer retail
				  customers the alternative of purchasing local exchange service on a stand-alone
				  basis at the carrier's tariffed rate.
(d) Repealed 9/16/2005.
Authority:
AS
						42.05.141
AS 42.05.145
AS 42.05.151
AS 42.05.291
AS
						42.05.800
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 3 - Commerce, Community, and Economic Development › Part 7 - Regulatory Commission of Alaska › Chapter 53 - Telecommunications › Article 4 - Local Exchange Competition › 3 AAC 53.299 - Definitions

Current through May 31, 2024
In
					 3 AAC 53.200 -
					 3 AAC 53.299, unless the context requires
					 otherwise,
(1) "access to directory
				  assistance" means access to a service that includes making available to
				  customers, upon request, information contained in directory listings;
(2) "access to emergency services" includes
				  access to 911 and enhanced 911 services to the extent that, in a carrier of
				  last resort area, a local government or other public safety organization has
				  implemented 911 or enhanced 911 service; in this paragraph,
(A) "911" means a service that permits a
				  telecommunications user, by dialing the three-digit code "911," to call
				  emergency services through a public service access point operated by the local
				  government or other public safety organization;
(B) "enhanced 911" means 911 service that
				  includes the ability to provide
(i) automatic
				  numbering information to enable the public service access point to call back if
				  the call is disconnected; and
(ii)
				  automatic location information to permit emergency service providers to
				  identify the geographic location of the calling party;
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 3 - Commerce, Community, and Economic Development › Part 7 - Regulatory Commission of Alaska › Chapter 53 - Telecommunications › Article 5 - Universal Service Fund › 3 AAC 53.300 - Applicability, finding, purpose, and waiver

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) The provisions
				  of 3 AAC 53.300 -
				  3 AAC 53.399 apply to all public utilities that provide
				  intrastate telecommunications service in this state.
(b) The purpose of 3 AAC 53.300 -
				  3 AAC 53.399 is
(1) to
(A) promote the efficiency, availability, and
				  affordability of universal telephone service in this state through the
				  establishment of the Alaska Universal Service Fund (AUSF);
(B) recalculate the rates and charges of
				  intrastate telecommunications utilities so as to make explicit any subsidies
				  that have previously been implicit; and
(C) implement state participation in federal
				  programs for the support of universal service under
				  47 U.S.C. 254
				  of the Federal Communications Act, as amended by the Telecommunications Act of
				  1996 (P.L.
				  104-104); and