Beaver Creek Cooperative Telephone Co. v. Public Utility Commission

Petitioners1 seek judicial review of an amendment to OAR 860-027-0070 promulgated by the Public Utility Commission of the State of Oregon (PUC). The amended rule compels telecommunications cooperatives providing “through services2 to submit annual reports to PUC covering all services they provide. For the following reasons, we uphold the validity of the rule.

In 1997, PUC initiated rulemaking proceedings to require annual financial and operational reporting for all intrastate telecommunications services provided by cooperatives, because it was concerned with access rates charged by…