Ohio Administrative Code
Title 4901:5 - Division of Forecasting
Chapter 4901:5-33 - Transportation Fuel Emergency
Section 4901:5-33-04 - Actions taken upon declaration of an energy emergency
Universal Citation: OH Admin Code 4901:5-33-04
Current through all regulations passed and filed through March 18, 2024
(A) Voluntary curtailment.
(1) The commission may implement, or cause to
be implemented, a public appeals campaign through appropriate news media to
alert the public to the impending shortage of transportation fuel. This appeal
may seek voluntary reductions in the consumption of such fuel and may include
specific suggested conservation measures for achieving such
reductions.
(2) The governor may
request that federal priority be given to all air, rail, barge, highway, and
pipeline traffic of essential fuel supplies into this state or a region of this
state affected by the energy emergency.
(3) The governor may request the federal
department of transportation to suspend federal limits on highway drivers'
hours of service for transportation fuel delivery for the duration of the
energy emergency.
(4) The Ohio
department of transportation may be requested to suspend truck size and weight
limitations that constrain the delivery of transportation fuel for the duration
of the energy emergency.
(5) The
governor may suspend intrastate common carrier weight and log limitations and
waive economic permits and fees that constrain the delivery of transportation
fuel for the duration of the energy emergency.
(6) The Ohio state highway patrol and all
political subdivisions may be requested to enforce existing speed limits and
traffic regulations strictly.
(7)
Each supplier, to the extent possible, shall notify any of its consumers for
whom forecasted fuel supplies are inadequate for the foreseeable future, and
shall provide its consumers information on:
(a) Actions the supplier will take to
allocate the available supply of fuel(s).
(b) The time period(s) in which any consumer
or class of consumers would be subject to curtailment, allocation, or other
restriction of fuel supply.
(c)
Procedures to be followed by consumers wishing to substantiate a claim for
priority use.
(8) Each
supplier shall report to the commission the information the commission
determines necessary to manage the energy emergency.
(9) The commission may calculate the
remaining supply of each fuel for priority use consumers.
(10) A supplier's
highest priority shall be to meet in full
the transportation fuel product priority use requirements for the current
calendar month of all consumers of record from such supplier's available
volumes. Suppliers shall reduce sales and/or deliveries to customers for
nonpriority use sufficiently to assure that all consumers' priority use
requirements for the balance of the current calendar month are met in
full.
(11) The commission may
designate certain geographical areas within the state as suffering from a
supply imbalance. The commission may order suppliers to release part or all of
their state set-aside volume, as determined in Chapter 4901:5-35 of the
Administrative Code, in order to increase the supply of transportation fuel in
such designated areas. Orders issued pursuant to this paragraph shall be in
writing and effective immediately upon issuance. Such orders shall represent an
option on the supplier's set-aside volumes for the month of issuance regardless
of the fact that delivery cannot be made until the following month.
Determine the average day's supply of transportation fuel remaining for each
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