3 AAC 48.060 - Formal and informal procedures and files
(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.
(b) A separate
series of docket numbers will be used for each calendar year. Each series will
begin with a capital letter "U" for utility proceedings, "P" for pipeline
proceedings, "R" for rulemaking proceedings, "I" for informational proceedings,
or "E" for electric reliability organization proceedings, followed by a dash,
the year designated by the last two numbers of the year, another dash, and then
a number starting with the number "001" for the first formal proceeding and
ending with the sequential number for the last proceeding docketed in a
calendar year. For the year 2012, for example, the first proceeding that is
docketed will be assigned Docket No. U-12-001 if it is a utility proceeding, or
P-12-001 if it is a pipeline proceeding and the last one, if there is a total
of 75, would be in Docket No. U-12-075 if it is a utility proceeding or
P-12-075 if it is a pipeline proceeding..
(c) The caption originally assigned to a
proceeding by the commission shall not be changed in any way except by formal
order and shall be used by the commission and all parties to the proceeding
unless and until it is revised by order of the commission. All pleadings shall
contain the officially assigned caption and the docket number shall be placed
to the right of the caption, the same as in commission orders.
(d) The commission shall maintain a separate
and complete file for each formal proceeding containing the original copy of
each filing together with the hearing transcript, if any, and all other
material relating to the proceeding.
(e) Whether issued by the commission or by an
administrative law judge, and whether issued electronically or on paper, orders
in each proceeding will be designated numerically in the sequence in which they
are issued. An errata to an order will be designated by the associated order
number and the suffix letter "E."
(f) Informal complaints will be kept in a
separate file and will be numbered in the same general manner described in (b)
of this section, except that the capital letter "C" will be used for utilities,
electric reliability organizations, and pipeline carriers instead of the
capital letters "U", "E," and "P."
(g) If an informal complaint is not resolved
by informal action, the complainant may request the commission to take formal
action. If the commission institutes a formal proceeding, the entire informal
file shall be transferred to the file of the formal proceeding and become a
part of the correspondence pertaining to the formal proceeding. The informal
file shall not become a part of the record of the formal proceeding, however,
unless and until the informal file is admitted into evidence in a hearing in
the formal proceeding.
(h) The
commission will establish and maintain a separate set of files containing a
copy of every special contract and the complete effective tariff of every
utility, electric reliability organization, and pipeline carrier together with
(1) every tariff advice letter and tariff
letter; and
(2) all associated
correspondence.
(i) If a
tariff filing is suspended, in whole or in part, during the statutory period of
notice to the commission and the public, one copy of the filing will be
transferred to the formal proceeding file in which the commission's suspension
order was entered, together with a copy of the advice letter and all
unprivileged material relating to the filing. Pending hearing on a suspended
filing, the commission may issue an order instituting an investigation, naming
parties, or establishing schedules, or may issue other orders it considers
appropriate. Each order relating to a suspended tariff filing will be entered
in the same proceeding as the one in which the suspension order was
entered.
(j) Applications for water
and wastewater provisional certifications will be kept in a separate set of
files and will be numbered in the same general manner described in (b) of this
section, except that the capital letter "W" will be used instead of the capital
letter "U", "E", or "P".
(k)
Intrastate interexchange registrations will be kept in a separate set of files
and will be numbered in the same general manner described in (b) of this
section, except that the capital letter "RX" will be used instead of the
capital letter "U", "E" or "P".
(l)
The commission will maintain a separate and complete file for each water and
wastewater provisional certification proceeding and each intrastate
interexchange registration proceeding, containing the original copy of each
filing and all other material related to the proceeding.
(m) The commission will establish and
maintain a separate set of files containing a copy of every rule and petition
for a new or revised integrated resource plan of every electric reliability
organization, filed under
AS
42.05.780, together with all associated
correspondence.
Notes
Authority:AS 42.05.141
AS 42.05.151
AS 42.05.201
AS 42.05.361
AS 42.05.770
AS 42.06.140
AS 42.06.400
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