(a) Subject to AS 31.05.035(c), the commission shall at all reasonable times have access to, and may designate any of its employees, agents, or consultants to inspect and examine, the accounts, records, books, maps, inventories, appraisals, valuations, or other reports and documents, kept by an oil or gas pipeline carrier or its affiliated interests, or prepared or kept for it by others, which relate to any contract or transaction between them. The commission may require an oil or gas pipeline carrier or its affiliated interest to file with the commission copies of any or all of these accounts, records, books, maps, inventories, appraisals, valuations, or other reports and documents, or to maintain those materials at some convenient location in the state specified by order. Costs incurred in complying with a commission request to review the records referred to in this section or to maintain these records in such a manner as to make them conveniently available for the commission's review shall be borne by the party controlling the records.
(b) Subject to AS 31.05.035(c), when participating as a party under AS 42.04.070(c) or AS 44.23.020(e), the attorney general shall, at all reasonable times, have the right to reasonable access to, and may designate any of the attorney general's employees, agents, or consultants to inspect and examine, the accounts, records, books, maps, inventories, appraisals, valuations, or other reports and documents kept by an oil or gas pipeline carrier that are relevant to the issues presented in any adjudicatory matter before the commission in which the attorney general has appeared as a party under AS 42.04.070(c) or AS 44.23.020(e). This access is subject to reasonable notice to all parties with an opportunity to object before the commission. Included under this subsection is access to records or other documents under the custody or control of an affiliated interest of the pipeline carrier that relate to any contract or transaction between the public utility and the affiliated interest. Costs incurred in complying with a request to review the records referred to in this subsection or to maintain those records in such a manner as to make them conveniently available for review shall be borne by the party controlling the records.