Alaska Administrative Code
Title 3 - Commerce, Community, and Economic Development
Part 7 - Regulatory Commission of Alaska
Chapter 48 - Practice and Procedure
Article 1 - Practice Before the Commission
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

(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

(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.