# Order No. 6 — Legislative Council Reporting Directive The most recent order in the docket as of 2026-05-22, issued by the full Commission (Webb, Tate, Anderson). **This is not a ruling on the Ironwood dispute** — it is a procedural / transparency order directing EAL to provide a Legislative Council report by **2026-06-01** with detailed data, framed "assuming Commission approval of the most recent Annual Update filing." The substantive final order on whether Ironwood stays in the rider — the $33.9M question — has not yet been issued as of this filing. ## What's inside - 26-008-TF_75_1.pdf — 3 pages. ## Key takeaways - **The statutory basis:** Ark. Code Ann. § 23-4-1305(2)(E) requires the Commission to provide an annual report to the Legislative Council. - **The data EAL must provide by 2026-06-01:** 1. **Generation Portfolio Mix** based on (a) Energy, (b) Capacity, and (c) **"A description of each strategic investment included in EAL's most recent GAJA Annual Update filing which includes, but is not limited to, the installed capacity in megawatts, fuel and technology type, the location of the strategic investment, the estimated total cost, the Commission-approved cost, the estimated anticipated accredited capacity by season, the in-service-date, the current estimated annual revenue requirement of the strategic investment, and any publicly disclosed contributions toward the strategic Investment."** — this is the closest the public record gets to a disclosure of who is paying *for* each strategic investment, but only if those contributions are *already publicly disclosed*. (p. 1) 2. **Job-creation data** for each strategic investment, including jobs created and estimated median monthly pay per worker. (p. 2) 3. **Customer arrears** — count, average, and median amount of arrearage over the past 12 months. (p. 2) 4. **Disconnected customers** — count for each month for the past 12 months. (p. 2) 5. **Affordability narrative** — given the disconnections and arrears data. (p. 2) 6. **Average rate change** resulting from the GAJA Annual Update by total revenue requirement, and per rate class the average and median expected bills. 7. **Projected bill impacts** consistent with "EAL Hearing Exhibit No. 2 of Docket No. 26-008-TF introduced at the April 29, 2026 evidentiary hearing" — including EIA residential rate comparison data. - **The framing.** The order opens: "assuming Commission approval of the most recent Annual Update filing" — i.e., the Commission contemplates approval but has not yet issued the substantive approval order itself. - **What's missing.** The order does **not** rule on: - Whether [[Ironwood]] stays in the rider (Staff's $33.9M challenge) - The cost-of-debt methodology (the AG's challenge) - The pre-hearing issues raised in [[Order No. 5 Pre-Hearing Issues]] - **Signatories:** [[Doyle Webb]] (Chairman), [[Justin Tate]], [[Katie Anderson]]. Karen Shook signs the certificate of service as [[Karen Shook|Secretary of the Commission]]. ## People and orgs mentioned - [[Arkansas Public Service Commission]] (full Commission) - [[Doyle Webb]], [[Justin Tate]], [[Katie Anderson]] — signatories - [[Karen Shook]] — Secretary of the Commission - [[Entergy Arkansas]] — directed party ## Concepts invoked - The Legislative Council reporting requirement under § 23-4-1305(2)(E) - "Publicly disclosed contributions toward the strategic Investment" — the rare statutory hook for disclosing data-center or large-load contributions - EIA residential rate data as the benchmark ## Role in T002 dialectics The order's framing "**assuming Commission approval** of the most recent Annual Update filing" is load-bearing for the Statement B (antithesis) position in [[T002 - Ironwood Strategic Investment Designation Requirement|T002]] and was specifically cited by [[D002 Antithesis]] and [[D004 Antithesis]] as a textual concession by the Commission itself that the rider's Ironwood inclusion is not yet settled — i.e., the Commission has not yet treated [[docket-24-072-u-order-9-2026-05-24/_overview|Order No. 9 of 24-072-U]] or the [[GAJA Rider 2026 Annual Update]] as a completed Strategic Investment designation. The dialectical record on T002 (`bracketed-because-Commission-ruling-pending` per [[D004 Synthesis]]) treats this framing as evidence that the Commission's interpretive judgment on the (10)(A) chapeau's "to:" clause (purposes prong) is the dispositive remaining external evidence. ## Cross-references - This order's "publicly disclosed contributions toward the strategic investment" clause is conceptually adjacent to the sealed [[GAJA Rider 2026 Annual Update|Filing Requirement 16]] (Non-CIAC Customer Payments) — but limited to what is *already* publicly disclosed. ## Open questions / follow-ups - **The substantive final order on the Ironwood / cost-of-debt disputes has not been issued as of 2026-05-12.** Monitor the docket for a subsequent order. This is the dispositive remaining external evidence per [[D004 Synthesis|D004]] / [[T002 - Ironwood Strategic Investment Designation Requirement|T002]]. - The Legislative Council report itself (due 2026-06-01) — and the prior years' versions under the older GAJA proceedings — would be a Tier-1 secondary source if obtainable. - "EAL Hearing Exhibit No. 2 of Docket No. 26-008-TF" was introduced at the 4/29 hearing; the hearing transcript and exhibits are not online ([[Hearing Transcript Filing Notice]]).