Document ID: FERC-2017-0650-0001
Agency: ferc
Document Type: Notice
Title: License Exemptions, Surrenders, and Dismissals: City of Escondido, California and Vista Irrigation District
Posted Date: 2017-05-23T04:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 98 (Tuesday, May 23, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Pages 23562-23563]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2017-10514]

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Project Nos. 176-018; 176-035]

City of Escondido, California, & Vista Irrigation District; 
Notice of Effective Date for Exemption From Licensing (Conduit), 
Surrender of License, and Dismissal of Relicense Application

    On September 25, 2012, the Commission issued a Conditional Order 
Granting Exemption from Licensing (Conduit), Accepting Surrender of 
License, and Dismissing Relicense Application for the Escondido Project 
No. 176 (the 2012 Order).\1\ The Escondido Project is located on the 
San Luis Rey River and Escondido Creek, near the city of Escondido, in 
San Diego County, California.
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    \1\ City of Escondido and Vista Irrigation District, 140 FERC 
62,226 (2012).
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    The 2012 Order approved a conduit exemption for the Bear Valley 
Powerhouse Project No. 176 (part of the existing Escondido Project) and 
accepted surrender of the license for the remaining project facilities. 
Both the conduit exemption and the license surrender were contingent on 
certain conditions being met including the protection of historic 
properties, approval of a water rights settlement agreement, dismissal 
of pending court proceedings, and obtaining a rights-of-way agreement 
for parts of the project that would continue to occupy federal land 
after the surrender. The 2012 order also dismissed the relicense 
application for the Escondido Project, effective as of the effective 
date of the conduit exemption and license surrender.
    On May 3, 2017, the City of Escondido and Vista Irrigation District 
filed documentation that all conditions

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in the 2012 Order have been satisfied. Therefore, the new Bear Valley 
Powerhouse Project No. 176 conduit exemption, the license surrender for 
the Escondido Project No. 176, and our dismissal of the relicensing 
application are all effective as of the date of this notice.

    Dated: May 17, 2017.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2017-10514 Filed 5-22-17; 8:45 am]
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