Alaska Administrative Code

(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 b…

(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 pla…

(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 beginn…

(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 i…

(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 …

(a) To ensure that an electric reliability organization meets the requirements of AS 42.05.762, the rules of the electric reliability organization must (1) contain standards or procedures by which a director, director's designee, or employee of the electric reliability organizati…

(a) An electric reliability organization shall file all rules, or revisions to rules, developed in compliance with, or developed with the intent to comply with, AS 42.05.762(3) by means of a consecutively numbered electric reliability organization rule letter. Every rule letter m…

(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 c…

(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 …

(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 regu…

Notes 3 AAC 47.020 Eff. 10/21/92, Register 124; repealed 12/1/94, Register 132 State regulations are updated quarterly; we currently have two versions available. Below is a comparison between our most recent version and the prior quarterly release. More comparison features will b…

Notes 3 AAC 47.021 Eff. 12/1/95, Register 136; repealed 6/11/2006, Register 178 State regulations are updated quarterly; we currently have two versions available. Below is a comparison between our most recent version and the prior quarterly release. More comparison features will …

(a) For state fiscal years beginning after June 30, 2006, the regulatory cost charge rates will be established annually by commission order, using the formulae in 3 AAC 47.040. However, if the regulatory cost charge rate applicable to adjusted gross regulated operating revenue, c…

(a) The formula for determining individual regulatory cost charge rates for each regulated public utility or pipeline carrier, as a percentage of adjusted gross regulated operating revenue is RCC = A1 + A2 __________ GR where, RCC equals the regulatory cost charge rate applicable…

Notes 3 AAC 47.045 Eff. 12/1/94, Register 132; repealed 6/13/2006, Register 178 State regulations are updated quarterly; we currently have two versions available. Below is a comparison between our most recent version and the prior quarterly release. More comparison features will …

(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 …

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 gr…

(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 l…

(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. (…

(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 reg…

(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 d…

(a) All correspondence with the commission should be addressed to the commission at its principal office and not to an individual staff member or commissioner unless otherwise specifically authorized or directed by the commission. If a written communication to the commission is i…

(a) Except as provided in (e) of this section, all text in filings, including correspondence, tariff filings, pleadings, and letters, whether filed on paper or electronically under 3 AAC 48.095, must be legibly typewritten in a font not less than 11 point, or hand printed in blac…

(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 …

(a) Except as provided in (b) of this section, the records in the possession of the commission or its advisory staff are open to inspection by the public during regular office hours. (b) The following records are confidential and are not open to inspection by the public unless th…

(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 commissi…

(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 th…

(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 m…

(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 ap…

(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 docume…

(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 th…

(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…

(a) In any formal proceeding in which pleadings are filed, a party may appear before the commission and be represented by (1) attorneys at law admitted to practice in Alaska; (2) attorneys at law qualified and entitled to practice before the highest court of record of any other s…

(a) A document is considered filed with the commission on the date it is officially received by the commission. If a party has the right, or is required, to perform some act within a prescribed period after notice or a pleading is served on that party, and the notice or pleading …

(a) A motion or related filing must comply with the filing, service, and general pleading requirements of 3 AAC 48.090 - 3 AAC 48.100. A motion, any opposition to, or support for, the motion, and any reply must contain a complete written statement of the reasons in support of the…

(a) Unless otherwise specified by order or another applicable provision of this chapter, all filings submitted to the commission, with the exception of regulatory cost charge reports, may be filed electronically or on paper. Reports submitted in accordance with 3 AAC 47.050(b) or…

(a) Pleadings before the commission shall be classified and designated as an application, complaint, cross-complaint, petition, protest, answer, reply or motion. (b) In the order listed below, each pleading shall include(1) the heading and caption (including the names of the part…

Within 15 days after an order of the commission is served, a party may file a petition for reconsideration of that order setting out specifically the grounds upon which the petitioner believes the order is unreasonable, erroneous, unlawful, or otherwise defective. The petitioner …

(a) Petitions for permission to intervene as a party will be considered only in those cases that are to be decided upon an evidentiary record after notice and hearing. Any person who has a statutory right to be made a party to that proceeding will be permitted to intervene. Any p…

(a) Unless an alternative means of compensation is provided as described in (g) of this section, an electric consumer who participates in a commission proceeding either as an intervenor or as a public witness, and who substantially contributes to the acceptance, in whole or in pa…

(a) If a customer or shipper has an informal complaint against a public utility or pipeline carrier, the complaint must be made first to the utility or carrier. If the complainant is not satisfied with the disposition of the complaint, the complainant or the complainant's authori…

(a) A person may request alternative dispute resolution by petition if no adjudicatory proceeding is open, or by motion in an existing adjudicatory proceeding. An initiating order in an adjudicatory proceeding will specify the date by which a motion for alternative dispute resolu…

(a) A formal complaint or protest shall be in writing and should (1) be so drawn as to fully inform the respondent or respondents and the commission as to how applicable provisions of the utility's, electric reliability organization's, or pipeline carrier's effective tariff or of…

(a) Informal conferences of the parties involved in an informal complaint or formal proceeding or of their authorized representatives may be held at any time to provide opportunity for the settlement, adjustment, clarification or resolution of any issues or problems relating to a…

A party may obtain discovery from another party regarding any matter, not privileged, that is relevant to the subject matter of the proceeding, if the matter is admissible in evidence under 3 AAC 48.154 or appears reasonably calculated to lead to the discovery of admissible evide…

Discovery requests and responses to discovery requests must be served electronically as provided in 3 AAC 48.090(b)(2), (4), and (5), unless electronic filing has been waived under 3 AAC 48.095(l) or the sending and receiving party agree to alternative means of service. If electr…

(a) A party may obtain discovery from another party through interrogatories, requests for production, and requests for admission. A party may notice and conduct a deposition only upon agreement of all parties or with permission of the presiding officer upon motion and a showing t…

(a) A party may obtain discovery from another party before a procedural schedule is established. After the presiding officer establishes a procedural schedule specifying discovery times, a party may request discovery only when permitted by the procedural schedule unless, upon mot…

After notice to the other parties, a party may request that the presiding officer issue an order governing the production in discovery and use by parties of confidential information. A party expecting to produce confidential information in discovery shall request issuance of a co…

(a) The commission shall give parties reasonable notice of a hearing or of the change in the date and place of a hearing and the nature of such hearing. (b) Repealed 6/29/84. (c) The person designated to conduct a hearing shall have authority, subject to possible contrary rulings…