Current through Register Vol. 49, No. 13, September 23, 2024
Subpart
1.
Purpose.
The purpose of this measure is to conserve motor fuel by
requesting schools to adopt strategies to reduce student commuting and
school-sponsored activities in an energy supply emergency.
Subp. 2.
Scope.
Each school district, as defined by the Education Code,
Minnesota Statutes, chapters 120 to 129, and nonpublic schools, as defined in
Minnesota Statutes, section
123B.41, subdivision
9, which have a combined student staff population of 100 persons or more, is
requested to comply with this measure.
Subp. 3.
Submission of conservation
plan.
School boards are requested to voluntarily submit to the
department before April 1, 1984, or within 45 days after declaration of an
energy supply emergency, whichever comes first, an emergency motor fuel
conservation plan as defined in subpart
4 or
5.
Subp. 4.
School emergency conservation
plan: option A.
School districts may submit a self-styled conservation plan
including any conservation strategies that taken together would have an
objective of reducing baseline consumption by approximately 15 percent during
an energy supply emergency.
Self-styled conservation plans are requested to
include:
A. a calculation of the
baseline consumption, defined in part
7620.0100, subpart
4;
B. the expected motor fuel savings attributed
to each selected strategy; and
C.
the plan elements described in subpart
6.
School districts will be credited for travel-reduction
actions taken prior to submission of their plans that yield ongoing motor fuel
savings.
Subp.
5.
School emergency conservation plan: option B reduction
strategies.
Option B reduction strategies:
A. School districts are requested to select
at least three strategies from the following categories, with at least one
strategy being from category I.
B.
Category I strategies consist of:
(1)
Prohibiting student parking on school grounds and requesting local authorities
to pass or enforce parking restrictions in areas adjacent to a school for the
duration of the emergency. Exemptions from the parking prohibition may be
granted to students who: have no alternative transportation to school, have
special medical needs that prevent use of alternative methods of traveling to
school, have job requirements that demand access to automobile transportation,
or are members of a carpool registered with the school rideshare
coordinator.
(2) Postponement or
cancellation of extracurricular activities, including athletic events, until
the termination of an energy supply emergency for motor fuel.
(3) Cancellation of two school days for each
30-day declared energy emergency period.
C. Category II strategies consist of:
(1) Establishment or sponsorship of a
student/staff rideshare program. A student/staff rideshare program may be
organized independently or in conjunction with a local or community rideshare
program. It is recommended that a rideshare program provide for: promotion of
ridesharing through school policies and newspapers or other publications, the
capability to match students or staff carpools through ride boards, manual or
computer listings, or other methods which provide information necessary to
match rideshare applicants, and a school rideshare coordinator who will be
responsible for the school ridesharing program.
(2) Adoption and enforcement of a parking
management strategy which gives preferential parking to high-occupancy vehicles
in student parking lots or requires fees for parking on school
grounds.
(3) Provision of indoor or
sheltered bicycle parking with a capacity for at least five percent of the
student body.
(4) Elimination of on
the road driver education for the period of the emergency.
(5) Cancellation or rescheduling of some
extracurricular activities. Selection of this strategy is not encouraged if
category I, strategy (2) has been chosen and applies when the governor orders
the school conservation measure.
(6) Participation in an independently
sponsored school bus fuel economy program.
Subp. 6.
Contents of school district
conservation plans.
Emergency motor fuel conservation plans submitted by school
districts are requested to include:
A.
the title of the person or position responsible for implementing the plan
during an energy supply emergency for motor fuel;
B. the internal media to be used to inform
school staff and students of a school district program measure; and
C. the implementation schedule for category
II, strategies (1), (2), (3), and (6).
Statutory Authority: MS s
216C.15
