Alaska Administrative Code
Title 3 - Commerce, Community, and Economic Development
Part 7 - Regulatory Commission of Alaska
Chapter 46 - Electric Reliability Organizations and Integrated Resource Planning
Article 1 - Certification and Practice of Electric Reliability Organizations
3 AAC 46.160 - Continuing requirements

(a) On or before October 1 of each year, an electric reliability organization shall electronically file with the commission, in accordance with 3 AAC 48.095, on a form provided by the commission, a report containing

(b) Not later than 45 days before its annual surcharge filing made in compliance with 3 AAC 46.430, a certificated electric reliability organization shall file, in accordance with 3 AAC 48.095, a proposed budget, including anticipated administrative costs for the following calendar year, to the commission as an informational filing described in the commission's records with the prefix "EB." The electric reliability organization must transmit the budget filing to the commission under a consecutively numbered cover letter designated as "EB[number]" followed by a hyphen and the number of the electric reliability organization's certificate.

(c) The electric reliability organization's budget filing must include

(d) The electric reliability organization shall make a good faith effort to electronically notify each registered entity of the proposed budget and include the location of the public documents that support the proposed budget filed with the commission. The electric reliability organization shall publish on its website a notice of the proposed budget and the public documents that support the proposed budget.

(e) The electric reliability organization may modify the proposed budget in response to public comments or revised cost estimates before submitting its surcharge filing under 3 AAC 46.430. A modification of the budget under this subsection must be identified and explained in the tariff letter included with the electric reliability organization's surcharge filing.

(f) The annual surcharge factor proposed to recover the proposed budget of the electric reliability organization will be allocated to load-serving entities served by the electric reliability organization on the basis of net energy for load. An electric reliability organization may petition the commission to authorize a different method of allocating the proposed budget of the electric reliability organization. A petition must provide information sufficient to support a finding that good cause exists for the use of a different method.

(g) The commission may waive or modify by order the requirements of this section, in whole or in part, upon application and a showing of good cause or on the commission's own motion, if the waiver does not also require a waiver of the requirements set out in AS 42.05.762 or 42.05.772.