Web tour of electronic price lists and tariffs.  
Prepared for SBEIS Workshop, January 22, 2001, by Jeffrey Showman.

Introduction: Important distinction between electronic availability of 
information to customers (i.e. web access), and electronic filing of 
information by companies.

A.  Electronic availability: Tariffs and/or price lists on-line 

Current Commission rules require companies to make information about prices and 
service terms available to customers, e.g.  by making tariffs available at 
company business offices (WAC 480-80-080 and -090).  For customers with access 
to the internet, tariffs and price lists may be made available through the 
world wide web.  These documents can be provided by the regulator or by the 
company.  Documents can be Word documents, Adobe Acrobat, or displayed in 
"plain text" on the screen

1.  Provided through the regulator
Pennsylvania
FCC - (scroll down, under "Public Access", choose "browse filed tariff 
documents") 
Idaho 

2.  Provided by the company
Northwest Natural Gas - choose "WN U-6" 
Sprint - (choose "Sprint local telephone" then "intrastate tariffs"), and 
scroll down to Washington)
Qwest 
American States Water Company  

An example of a free website, constructed by Glenn Blackmon of the Commission's 
staff in about 15 minutes (using a link to Sprint's price list and tariffs):  
http://www.geocities.com/wutctelecom/

B. Electronic filing
Companies can file tariffs and supporting information electronically.  The 
mechanism may be through a web site, or in other ways (e.g. file transfer 
protocol (ftp) or email). 

1. FCC - Common carrier bureau electronic tariff submission system
2. Connecticut DPUC - electronic filing system; example of  DPUC tariff filing 
news.
3. Idaho - Electronic filing pilot
4.  Texas- Users can retrieve information as well as file.  Note that paper is 
still the official copy.
5.  FERC - Electronic filing pilot: http://www.ferc.fed.us/efi/doorbell.htm.