1. (a) Subject to RSA 91-A, all documents submitted to the commission shall become matters of public record as of the day and time of the submission, with the following exceptions:

   1. (1) Accident reports under RSA 374:40;
   2. (2) Information about individual residential customers, the disclosure of which would constitute an invasion of privacy within the meaning of RSA 91-A:5, IV;
   3. (3) Documents submitted in connection with any proceeding in which confidential treatment has been requested pursuant to Puc 203.12;
   4. (4) Documents subject to a protective order of the commission issued pursuant to Puc 203.12;
   5. (5) Documents granted confidential treatment pursuant to Puc 203.10 and Puc 203.11; or
   6. (6) Other documents entitled to confidential treatment pursuant to RSA 91-A or other applicable law.

2. (b) All information within documents described in section (a) above and submitted to the commission and asserted to be confidential by the person making the submission, shall be redacted in the version for public release prior to submission. All redactions shall be made in a way that, within the redacted version of the document(s), preserves the line sequencing and pagination of the unredacted version of the document(s) to the greatest practicable extent, including any blank pages, and:

   1. (1) Bears the legend “REDACTED” at the upper-right-hand corner of the first page, and every redacted page; and

   2. (2) Indicates all confidential segments with either:

      1. a. The legend “BEGIN CONFIDENTIAL,” in all capital letters, at the beginning of the redacted segment, followed by a left bracket. Following the left bracket, the confidential segment shall be replaced by a blank space of approximately equal length to the material being redacted. The end of the redacted segment shall be indicated with a right bracket, followed by the legend “END CONFIDENTIAL,” in all capital letters, as follows:

         “BEGIN CONFIDENTIAL[blank space]END CONFIDENTIAL”;

      2. b. Indication of redacted material by blacking it out or highlighting it with a solid black line in the following manner: redacted material; or
      3. c. Any other method that clearly indicates the scope of the material redacted.

3. (c) For each redacted document submitted, the person submitting the document shall also provide an unredacted version of the confidential document(s) to the commission that:

   1. (1) Bears the legend “CONFIDENTIAL” at the upper-right-hand corner of the first page, and every page with confidential material; and

   2. (2) Indicates all redactions with either:

      1. a. The legend “BEGIN CONFIDENTIAL,” in all capital letters, at the beginning of the confidential segment, followed by a left bracket. The end of the confidential segment shall be indicated with a right bracket, followed by the legend “END CONFIDENTIAL,” in all capital letters, as follows:

         “BEGIN CONFIDENTIAL[confidential segment]END CONFIDENTIAL”;

      2. b. Indication of all redactions made by highlighting the confidential segment in light gray in the following manner: confidential segment; or
      3. c. Any other method that clearly indicates the material redacted in the redacted version.
4. (d) The public version(s) of any discovery-related submissions made pursuant to Puc 203.10 shall be filed with the commission no later than 3 days after the submission of the confidential version(s) of such discovery-related material.

Source. #2912, eff 11-26-84; ss by #4998, eff 11-26-90; ss by #6365, INTERIM, eff 11-18-96, EXPIRED: 3-18-97 New. #6559, eff 8-19-97, EXPIRED: 8-19-05 New. #8420, INTERIM, eff 8-23-05, EXPIRED: 2-19-06 New. #8657-A, eff 6-10-06 New. #14184, eff 1-24-25 (formerly Puc 201.04)