Missouri Code of State Regulations › Title 20 - DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE AND INSURANCE › Division 4240 - Public Service Commission › Chapter 10 - Utilities › Section 20 CSR 4240-10.145 - Annual Report Submission Requirements for Electric, Gas, Water, Sewer, and Steam Heating Utilities

Current through Register Vol. 49, No. 14, July 15, 2024
PURPOSE: Section
				  393.140(6),
				  RSMo, includes an obligation for the
				  commission to require every person and corporation under its supervision to
				  submit an annual report to the commission. This rule establishes the standards
				  for the submission of annual reports by electric, gas, water, sewer, and steam
				  heating utilities that are subject to the jurisdiction of the commission,
				  including the procedures for submitting nonpublic annual report
				  information.
(1) All
				electric, gas, water, sewer, and steam heating utilities shall submit an annual
				report to the commission on or before April 15 of each year, except as
				otherwise provided for in this rule.
(2) Annual reports shall be submitted either
				on a form provided by the commission or on a computer-generated replica that is
				acceptable to the commission. Reports being submitted on paper are to be
				prepared in loose-leaf format and sent to the attention of the secretary of the
				commission. Computer-generated reports can be submitted through the
				commission's electronic filing and information system (EFIS). Attempts to
				substitute forms such as stockholder reports without concurrently submitting
				official commission forms with appropriate cross-references will be considered
				noncompliant. All requested information shall be included in the annual report,
				where applicable, even if it has been provided in a previous annual
				report.
(3) A utility that receives
				a notice from the commission stating that deficiencies exist in the information
				provided in the annual report shall respond to that notice within twenty (20)
				days after the date of the notice, and shall provide the information requested
				in the notice in its response.
(4)
				If a utility subject to this rule considers the information requested on the
				annual report form to be nonpublic information, it must submit both a fully
				completed version to be kept under seal and a redacted public version that
				clearly informs the reader that the redacted information has been submitted as
				nonpublic information to be kept under seal. Submittals made under this section
				that do not include both versions will be considered deficient. The staff on
				behalf of the commission will issue a deficiency letter to the company and if
				both versions of the annual report are not received within twenty (20) days of
				the notice, the submittal will be considered noncompliant. In addition to the
				foregoing, submittals made under this section must meet the following
				requirements:
(A) A cover letter stating that
				the utility is designating some or all of the information in its annual report
				as confidential information, and including the name, phone number, and e-mail
				address (if available) of the person responsible for addressing questions
				regarding the confidential portions of the annual report, must be submitted
				with the reports;
(B) The cover of
				each version of the report must clearly identify whether it is the public or
				nonpublic version;
(C) A detailed
				affidavit that identifies the specific types of information to be kept under
				seal, provides a reason why the specific information should be kept under seal
				and states that none of the information to be kept under seal is available to
				the public in any format must be prominently attached to both versions of the
				report; and
(D) Each page of each
				version of the report that contains nonpublic information shall be clearly
				identified as containing such information.