Alaska Administrative Code
Title 3 - Commerce, Community, and Economic Development
Part 7 - Regulatory Commission of Alaska
Chapter 48 - Practice and Procedure
Article 2 - Utility and Pipeline Tariffs
3 AAC 48.430 - Jurisdictional separations
Current through February 27, 2024
(a) Except as set out in (b) - (m) of this section, the Separations Manual, setting out the standard procedure for separating telephone property costs, revenues, expenses, taxes, and reserves, and as set out in 47 C.F.R. 36, as revised as of August 8, 1988, is adopted by reference. A telephone utility shall allocate its property costs, revenues, expenses, taxes, and reserves in accordance with the principles and procedures in 47 C.F.R. 36, except as set out in (b) - (m) of this section, for use by the commission in establishing rates for telephone utilities.
(b) Except as set out in (e) and (f) of this section, "state toll" is substituted for "state" throughout Part 36.
(c) Sections 36.1(b), 36.2(b)(3), and (e), 36.155(a), 36.331(b), and 37.377(a)(7) are modified by substituting "state toll and local" for "state and interstate" and "interstate or state."
(d) 47 C.F.R. 36.2(b)(3)(iv), 36.126(c)(3), and 36.154(c) - (f) are not adopted. The following applies:
(e) 47 C.F.R. 36.125(b) - (f) are not adopted. The following applies:
.85 + (.05 X (A - B))
where:
A = the number of exchanges with toll free calling to less than 100 access lines
B = the total number of exchanges
(f) Sections 36.142(b) and 36.377(a)(1)(i), (a)(1)(iii), (a)(2)(v), and (a)(3)(vi) are modified by substituting "local" or "local exchange" for "state" in the phrases "state jurisdiction" and "state operations."
(g) Section 36.154 is modified by adding "Subcategory 1.4, local private lines," in section 36.154(a) and including subcategory 1.4 in the direct assignments provided in section 36.154(b).
(h) Section 36.181(a) is modified by substituting "state toll operation" for "interstate operation."
(i) Section 36.377(a)(1)(i), (a)(2)(v), and (a)(3)(vi) are modified by adding "local private line expense" to the assignments provided in these sections.
(j) Section 36.377(a)(7) is modified by substituting "revenues of" for "revenues deposited in."
(k) Subparts F and G of Part 36, sections 36.601 - 36.741, are not adopted.
(l) Unless the context indicates otherwise, in this section
(m) The provisions of 47 C.F.R. 36.171 and 47 C.F.R. 36.222(c), as revised as of September 6, 1995, are adopted by reference.
A copy of the Separations Manual, 47 C.F.R. 36, as amended through August 8, 1988, is available for inspection at the offices of the Regulatory Commission of Alaska as specified in 3 AAC 48.010(a).
Under AS 44.62.125(b)(6) and AS 01.05.031(b)(7), the regulations attorney added subsec. (k) to 3 AAC 48.430 as of Register 112, January 1990. The former Alaska Public Utilities Commission had adopted that subsection, but it was inadvertently omitted from the set of 3 AAC 48.430 amendments that was filed on March 10, 1989.
Authority:AS 42.05.141
AS 42.05.151
AS 42.05.401