# Order No. 4 Suspending Entergy's Rates Order No. 4 of the [[Arkansas Public Service Commission]] in [[Entergy Arkansas]]'s base rate case (Doc. 93, issued 2026-03-20), a two-page order. It is ingested as the procedural anchor of [[psc/docket-26-001-u-2026-05-22/_overview|Docket 26-001-U]]: it suspends the proposed rates and sets the case on a contested-hearing track. ## What's inside `26-001-U_93_1.pdf` — 2 pages. The order recites that on 2026-03-20 the Commission's [[APSC General Staff|General Staff]] filed a Motion for Suspension of Rates stating its review "will exceed thirty (30) days," and grants it. ## What the order does The Commission **suspends the rates and tariffs Entergy Arkansas filed on 2026-02-27**, and any further rate revisions filed in the docket, under Ark. Code Ann. § 23-4-407(a): > "Pursuant to Ark. Code Ann. § 23-4-407(a) and based upon the recommendation of Staff and upon the need to establish an orderly process for review of EAL's Application, the Commission hereby suspends the proposed rates and tariffs initially filed by the Company on February 27, 2026." (pp. 1–2) It directs the parties to propose a procedural schedule and specifies public participation: > "The Commission will set a procedural schedule by subsequent order, and the Parties are directed to propose a procedural schedule that includes two Public Comment Hearings prior to the Evidentiary Hearing." (p. 2) The order is issued "BY ORDER OF THE ADMINISTRATIVE LAW JUDGE PURSUANT TO DELEGATION" and signed by [[N. Wesley Hunt]], Administrative Law Judge (p. 2). A footnote records that on 2026-03-09 Entergy Arkansas filed corrected attachments replacing three Minimum Filing Requirement schedules in its Application Exhibit A (Doc. 88) (p. 1). ## People and orgs mentioned - [[N. Wesley Hunt]] — Administrative Law Judge; issued the order under delegation. - [[Arkansas Public Service Commission]] — the Commission. - [[APSC General Staff]] — moved for the suspension. - [[Entergy Arkansas]] — the applicant utility. ## Concepts invoked - [[Cost-of-service study]] — the suspended rates rest on Entergy's [[Class Cost of Service Study]]. ## Events documented - [[2026-03 APSC Suspends Entergy's Proposed Rates]] — this order. ## Cross-references - [[psc/docket-26-001-u-2026-05-22/_overview|Docket 26-001-U production overview]] — the full procedural posture of the rate case. ## Open questions / follow-ups - The procedural schedule itself (testimony deadlines, the evidentiary-hearing date) had not yet issued as of 2026-05-22 — a future order to re-check.