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

Current through all regulations passed and filed through July 1, 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