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 48.157 - Allocation of costs
Current through February 27, 2024
(a) After each hearing or investigation in which costs allocable under AS 42.05.221, 42.05.401(b), 42.05.651, or AS 42.06.610 have been incurred and the commission decides to allocate those costs to a party or the commission, the commission will enter a cost allocation order, with appropriate discussion and findings, which includes
(b) Except as provided in AS 42.05.401(b), the commission will, in its discretion, if it has the money, initially pay all the expenses incurred by it in connection with a hearing or investigation. If for budgetary reasons it does not have money to pay all the expenses initially, the commission will, in its discretion, postpone the hearing or investigation until it does have the money or make alternative arrangements with the parties to pay the expenses directly so that the hearing or investigation may continue. The allocable expenses of a proceeding include, but are not limited to,
(c) The mere filing of a written or oral protest or statement of interest, or the voluntary offering of written or oral testimony at the request of the commission or of an acknowledged participant in a proceeding, is not participation of such magnitude or extent as to subject the person who made the filing or offered the testimony, to the assessment of an allocated share of the proceeding.
(d) If a party takes an active part in a hearing or investigation by way of cross-examination of witnesses or by requesting service of copies of pleadings briefs, exhibits, etc., that party may be required to bear a just share of the special costs which the commission considers to be directly allocable under AS 42.05.221, 42.05.401(b), 42.05.651, or AS 42.06.610 to the party's participation in the hearing, investigation, or other proceedings.
(e) A person who successfully petitions for intervention in a proceeding, or by any other means leads the commission or the other parties to believe he or she will be an active party in the proceeding, will be considered an active party up to the time the party signifies in writing to the commission, with service on the other parties, an intention to withdraw from active participation in the proceeding.
Authority:AS 42.05.111
AS 42.05.141
AS 42.05.151
AS 42.05.221
AS 42.05.254
AS 42.05.401
AS 42.05.651
AS 42.06.140(a)
AS 42.06.286
AS 42.06.610