Ohio Administrative Code › Title 4901:5 - Division of Forecasting › Chapter 4901:5-29 - Heating Oil and Propane Emergency › Section 4901:5-29-04 - Actions taken upon declaration of an energy emergency

Current through all regulations passed and filed through July 1, 2024
(A)
								Voluntary
			 curtailment. Upon declaration of an energy emergency by the governor, or at
			 such time as it is otherwise determined by the governor that such action is
			 appropriate:
(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 heating oil or propane. This appeal may seek
			 voluntary reduction in the consumption of such fuels and may include specific
			 suggested conservation measures for achieving such reduction.
(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 that the United States department of transportation suspend federal
			 limits on highway drivers' hours of service for heating oil or propane 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 heating oil or propane, for the
			 duration of the energy emergency.
(5)
									The governor may
			 suspend intrastate motor carrier weight and drivers' hours of service
			 limitations and waive economic permits and fees that constrain the delivery of
			 heating oil or propane for the duration of the energy
			 emergency.
(6)
									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 to its consumers information on actions
			 the supplier will take to allocate the available supply of heating oil or
			 propane, the time period(s) in which these actions will be in effect, and
			 procedures for consumers wishing to substantiate a claim for priority
			 use.
(7)
									Each supplier shall report to the commission the
			 information that the commission determines necessary to evaluate the supply of
			 heating oil or propane in Ohio.
(8)
									The commission
			 may calculate the remaining supply of heating oil or propane for priority
			 use.
(9)
									A supplier's highest priority shall be to meet in full
			 the heating oil or propane product priority use requirements for the current
			 calendar month of all consumers from such supplier's available volumes.
			 Suppliers shall reduce sales and/or deliveries to consumers for nonpriority use
			 sufficiently to assure that all consumers' priority use requirements for the
			 balance of the current calendar month are met in full.
(10)
									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 under Chapter 4901:5-35 of the
			 Administrative Code, in order to increase the supply of heating oil or propane
			 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.