# APSC General Staff The General Staff of the [[Arkansas Public Service Commission]] is the Commission's in-house body of analysts and attorneys. In a contested utility proceeding the Staff appears as a party in its own right — reviewing the utility's filing, conducting discovery, and filing independent testimony and recommendations. It is institutionally separate from the Commissioners, who ultimately decide the case, and functions as a technical check on the utility. ## People - [[Mark Herring]] — Public Service Rate Case Analyst II, Electric Utilities Section. ## Roles in this corpus - In the base rate case, the General Staff moved to suspend Entergy Arkansas's proposed rates, leading the Commission to issue [[Order No. 4 Suspending Entergy's Rates|Order No. 4]] (2026-03-20). - In the GAJA rider docket, the Staff filed [[APSC Staff Testimony on the GAJA Rider|responsive testimony]] recommending a $34.4 million cut to Entergy Arkansas's $110.4 million request — chiefly by excluding the Ironwood combustion turbine, which the Staff argues the Commission never designated a "strategic investment." ## Notes The Staff's GAJA testimony, like the utility's filing and the Attorney General's, treats the new-generation cost as falling on the standard retail rate classes; it did not argue that data-center or large new-load customers should bear the cost.