Alaska Administrative Code › Title 3 - Commerce, Community, and Economic Development › Part 7 - Regulatory Commission of Alaska › Chapter 48 - Practice and Procedure › Article 2 - Utility and Pipeline Tariffs › 3 AAC 48.220 - Tariff filing submission, calculation of statutory notice period, and effective date

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) Unless otherwise provided, the statutory
				  notice period for a tariff filing does not begin until the filing utility or
				  pipeline carrier has complied with this section. If a utility or pipeline
				  carrier submits a tariff filing that does not meet all of the notice and form
				  and filing requirements provided under statute and
				  3 AAC 48.200-3 AAC 48.430, and the commission does not waive those
				  requirements under
				  3 AAC 48.805, the commission may reject the filing. The
				  statutory notice period for a rejected tariff filing begins only after the
				  filing is supplemented, within a period specified by the commission, to comply
				  with all applicable requirements. If a utility or pipeline carrier fails to
				  supplement a rejected tariff filing in order to comply with all applicable
				  requirements within the period specified by the commission, the tariff filing
				  will be closed and returned to the utility or pipeline carrier. If a tariff
				  filing is refiled by the utility or pipeline carrier after having been rejected
				  and returned as provided in this chapter, the tariff filing shall be renumbered
				  with the next available tariff advice number and treated as a new tariff
				  filing.
(b) Unless otherwise
				  specified by order or another applicable provision of this chapter, tariff
				  filings may be submitted electronically, in accordance with
				  3 AAC 48.095. A utility or pipeline carrier filing on
				  paper shall submit an original and five copies of each tariff filing, unless
				  otherwise directed by the commission.
(c) Each tariff filing submitted to the
				  commission must be transmitted by means of consecutively numbered tariff advice
				  letters. Every tariff advice letter must contain the applicable information set
				  out in 3 AAC 48.270(a),
				  unless another provision of 3 AAC 47 - 3 AAC 53 (Regulatory Commission of
				  Alaska) provides otherwise, and is subject to one of the following statutory
				  notice periods as follows:
(1) a utility
				  tariff filing must be submitted to the commission not later than 45 days before
				  it may take effect unless the commission, by order, authorizes the filing to
				  take effect in less than 45 days after the date of filing, or unless another
				  provision of 3 AAC 47 - 3 AAC 53 (Regulatory Commission of Alaska) provides for
				  a different filing method or time period;
(2) an initial pipeline tariff filing must be
				  submitted to the commission not later than 90 days before it may take effect
				  unless the commission, by order, authorizes the filing to take effect in less
				  than 90 days after the date of filing, or unless another provision of 3 AAC 47
				  - 3 AAC 53 (Regulatory Commission of Alaska) provides for a different filing
				  method or time period;
(3) a
				  pipeline tariff filing, other than an initial pipeline tariff filing, must be
				  submitted to the commission not later than 30 days before it may take effect
				  unless the commission, by order, authorizes the filing to take effect in less
				  than 30 days after the date of filing, or unless another provision of 3 AAC 47
				  - 3 AAC 53 (Regulatory Commission of Alaska) provides for a different filing
				  method or time period.