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PURA process, RPB authority and OCA role highlighted as key checks on rates
Summary
Witnesses described how the Representative Policy Board reviews rate applications (approve/deny), the OCA's role in influencing budgets throughout the year, and how rate stabilization and debt-coverage rules affect timing and scope of future rate requests.
Officials and counsel spent extensive time explaining how rates are set under the regional-authority model and how approval or denial works under the Representative Policy Board process. The Representative Policy Board (RPB) was described as the body that approves or rejects rate applications on a yes/no basis, with statutory authority to find rates either excessive or insufficient.
Why it matters: The practical effect of the governance change depends on whether AWA customers will face different rate-setting procedures and outcomes compared with the current PURA-regulated regime. Questions focused on who can approve rates, what…
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