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 3 - Electric Reliability Organization Tariffs and Rules
3 AAC 46.390 - Suspension or rejection of tariff filings

(a) The commission may reject a tariff filing that is received by the commission in a form, or is filed by a method, that in whole or in part is not consistent with 3 AAC 46.320 - 3 AAC 46.430.

(b) If the commission rejects a tariff filing, it will return the filing promptly to the electric reliability organization with a letter explaining the reason the filing was rejected.

(c) A tariff filing, or any portion of one, that has been rejected is void.

(d) At any time before the end of the regulatory notice period under 3 AAC 46.320(c), the commission may, by order stating the reason, suspend a tariff filing either in whole or in part for 180 days from the filing of a complete electric reliability organization tariff filing. In the order suspending a reliability standard, the commission will identify the reliability standard's deficiencies and specify a timeline for resubmission, with consideration of the electric reliability organization's reliability standard development process.

(e) With the exception of a tariff filing containing reliability standards, if the commission does not enter a formal order suspending a tariff filing, in whole or in part, the part of the filing that is not suspended takes effect when the regulatory notice period has expired in accordance with 3 AAC 46.320(c), or at a later date designated by the electric reliability organization.

(f) Show cause orders and orders of investigation involving a suspended tariff filing will be issued under the same docket file number as the one under which the original suspension order was entered.

(g) If a suspended tariff filing is withdrawn by an electric reliability organization and later refiled, the commission may suspend the filing again up to the full regulatory notice period under (d) of this section.

(h) An order of the commission suspending a tariff filing, in whole or in part, may later be vacated, in whole or in part, by means of an order in the same formal proceeding.

(i) During the suspension period, an electric reliability organization may supplement or amend its tariff filing or make additional filings. However, if the supplementary or additional filings represent or make a significant or material change in the original filing, the commission may suspend the filing again up to the full regulatory notice period under (d) of this section and renotice the supplemented or amended filing to the public.