Opinion ID: 675684
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 3

Heading: Issuance of Conditional Permit

Text: 32 Under the Commission's regulations, [a]ny application, the effectiveness of which is conditioned upon the future occurrence of any event or circumstance, will be rejected. 18 C.F.R. Sec. 4.32(j). The petitioners contend that the Commission should have rejected Eagle Mountain's application because it was conditioned upon the applicant finding a source of water. 33 The petitioners did not raise this argument before the Commission. Our review of Commission action is limited by statute, however, to objection[s] urged before the Commission in ... [an] application for rehearing, unless there is a reasonable ground for failure so to do. 16 U.S.C. Sec. 825l (b)). The petitioners point to no reasonable ground--in fact, they point to no ground whatsoever--for their failure to include this point in their petition for rehearing before the agency. We are therefore without jurisdiction to consider it.