R746-400-4. Reports to the Commission

  A. Report Form Purposes -- The Division shall design report forms that will provide information from reporting entities useful to the Commission and the Division in performing their statutory duties and to administer Commission supervised or directed programs. These forms shall include, but are not limited to, reports used to provide information on a reporting entity's monthly and annual operations, reports concerning an entity's gross revenues used to calculate the public utilities' regulation fee under Section 54-5-2, and reports used in the administration the State of Utah Universal Public Telecommunications Service Support Fund, lifeline programs, and telephone relay program.

  B. Acceptable Report Forms --

  1. The Division shall make report forms available to all reporting entities. Applicable report forms for any report shall be available at least 60 days prior to the date the report is due to be completed by a reporting entity. The Division shall design report forms that clearly state the due date for the report and shall provide, as needed, directions, definitions and other information that will assist a reporting entity in completing a report form.

  2. The Division may accept a reporting entity's request that an alternative report form or document, used to furnish information to federal government agencies, other agencies of this or other states, or for the entity's other needs or uses, be used in lieu of all or part of a Commission report form. The Division may require that the alternative report form or document be supplemented with other or additional information in order to obtain the same information as sought in the Utah report form.

  C. Report Certification and Corrections -- Each report shall be signed by a responsible officer of the public utility certifying that the report is true and correct. If a reporting entity learns that any portion of a filed report is incorrect, it shall file corrected pages as soon as possible with an explanation of the corrections. The utility shall file an electronic copy of the report, in addition to a paper copy, if the report is prepared electronically.