The phrase 'substitute plan' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use this phrase when you are referring to an alternative plan. For example, "When the original plan didn't work out, we needed to come up with a substitute plan."
The E.P.A. is required by law to regulate carbon dioxide emissions in some fashion, but so far Mr. Pruitt has not proposed a substitute plan.
But William P. Apgar, who was an assistant housing secretary under Mr. Cuomo, called the substitute plan "penny-wise and pound-foolish" and said the properties were likely to fall into the hands of real estate speculators and remain a blight.
3. Show your anger at the special interests, but also have a substitute plan for improving things.
By 1924, the California Highway Commission's engineers had realized that building Route 50 through the canyon was impractical, and adopted a substitute plan for two highways connecting Lower Lake and Rumsey with the planned Route 15 (Tahoe-Ukiah Highway, now State Route 20) to the north in September 1925.
Like so many other observers of our nation's schools, she homes in on the abysmal teachers and gives short shrift to the great many others who craft careful substitute plans, postpone appointments and personal commitments, and work tirelessly day in and day out on behalf of their students.
L. 111 275 substituted "plan that defines" for "subordinate plan defines".
Some regulators say that the substituted plan would level the playing field and discourage regulatory arbitrage.
L. 112 141, § 1503(a)(3)(A)(i), substituted "planning" for "concept" and "multidisciplinary" for "multidisciplined" in introductory provisions.
When counselors are asked to serve as last-minute substitute teachers, plan the school-wide testing program, or take a double shift of lunch duty, what little time they have for students is gone, and that includes time for college planning.
In purely legal terms, the Supreme Court's action lets stand a decision in January by the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit that the city should try to substitute a plan favoring minority residents for its existing program of offering low- and moderate-income housing to people of all races.
In the meantime, it said, a second three-judge court, this one in San Antonio, "must designate a substitute interim plan for the 2012 election cycle by the end of November".
