RCA ANNOUNCES NEW WEBSITE FEATURES AVAILABLE 12/28 - NEW
SEARCHES AND OTHER ENHANCEMENTS
- Scheduling Calendar: (under What's New at the RCA) ability to
identify available
times based on the schedules of Commissioners and staff assigned to a particular
matter. Refer to the attached help documentation for additional information.
- Quick Access to Certificates or Entities (Companies) from Home Page: under
Top Searches on the home page, enter a certificate number or entity name and click
Go to quickly go to detail pages.
- Search for Transcripts: ability to search for transcripts, agendas,
and other
documents associated with hearings and meetings (including searching the content
of these documents). Available under RCA Exchange: Search by Type (Documents
and Documents-Full Text) and Advanced Search. Refer to the “tell me about this
search” links on each search page for additional information.
- "Match Found In" Information for Full-text Searches: when
performing a full-text
search, ability to identify where the full-text match was found-description, synopsis,
or within a particular file. Available under RCA Exchange: Search by Type
(Documents-Full Text) and Advanced Search. Refer to the “tell me about this search”
links on each search page for additional information.
- Search for Text within Matter Titles or Short Descriptions: when
performing an
Advanced Search (Matter), ability to look for a word or phrase only in the matter title
or short description (excluding matches within the contents of documents). To
perform such a search, unselect all Document Types. Refer to the “tell me about this
search” for additional information.
- REORGANIZED Document Searches: use one search under
Search by Type
(Documents) to search all types of documents, including Filings, Orders, and
Supporting Documents associated with hearings/meetings. When performing the
search, select the categories of documents you want to search for (Filings/Issuances,
Orders, and/or Supporting Documents on Hearings/Meetings). By default, all types of
documents will be searched. Refer to the “tell me about this search” link for additional
information.
- Public Notices/Comments for Specific Utility Types: a list of
open Public Notice
periods for each utility type is now available on the utility-type pages under For
Consumers.
- Electronic submission of RCC Quarterly Reports and RCC Payments: submit
RCC quarterly reports on the RCA website and launch to the Department of
Revenue’s payment site. Available only to logged in users; additional information
(including user IDs and passwords) will be sent to utilities subject to RCCs.
- Annual Operations Reports Web form: submit subset of annual operations
report
data using a Web form. Available only to logged in users; additional information will
be sent to utilities.
- Electronic Filing (BETA): Beta version of electronic filing for
utilities. Selected
utilities will be contacted with additional information.
UPDATES
- On Mailsheets (under What's New at the RCA: Daily Filings/Issuances),
court cases
associated with appeals are displayed.
- Date issued/received added to Recent Filings and Orders (under What's
New at the
RCA).
- Increased limit on files uploaded to Public Comments to 10MB per file.
- Added additional types of elections information to RCA Reports:
Deregulation/reregulation page (available under RCA Library), including whether
Voter Approved and the type of election.
- On Filing Details page, added ability to open Supporting Documents. Also
lists
entities related to the Supporting Document and whether the document is
confidential.
- Made the option to save search to browser favorites available in all
browsers.
- Added link to State of Alaska home page through the State seal on each
page.
- Corrected sort on Documents tab of Entity Details pages.
Date Issued: 12/28/2007