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State board adopts fee resolutions; staff to suspend some FERC prelicensing fees and correct water-certification cap
Summary
The State Water Resources Control Board unanimously adopted updates to water-quality and water-rights fee regulations on Sept. 16, correcting a water-certification fee cap and approving a temporary suspension of certain FERC prelicensing fees tied to the San Vicente Energy Storage Project.
The State Water Resources Control Board on Sept. 16 unanimously adopted fee regulations for water quality and water rights after staff said higher-than-normal fund reserves allowed the agency to avoid broad fee increases this year.
Staff from the Division of Administrative Services, led by Deputy Director John Russell and David Ciccarelli, the revenue and fee branch chief, said the department hosted three stakeholder meetings aligned with the governor’s budget cycle and that the proposed changes are limited to clarifying language and a small correction to one fee cap.
For the water-quality certification schedule, staff corrected a computation error. The maximum fee for certain construction and linear projects will be…
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