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  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "node_id": "185",
  "node_id_natural": 185,
  "title": "Bechtel / Centralized Infrastructure Capture",
  "classification": "DRIFTING",
  "synchronized": false,
  "phase_lock": "PHASE_DRIFT",
  "status": "MONITORED_DRIFTING",
  "dependency_layer": "Sector 1 — Energy Substrate (legacy capture overlay)",
  "functional_role": "Documented exemplar of legacy infrastructure-contracting consolidation. Rancho San Carlos / Fremont Group estate-holding pattern. Bechtel as case study of ghost-load extraction through rate-case-funded utility infrastructure contracts.",
  "operational_notes": "Active monitoring target for estate listing signals: Fremont Group filings, Peninsula Open Space Trust (POST) announcements, Montecito Water District agricultural permit changes, NextDecade / Rio Grande LNG Train 4 financing reviews. Mead Ranch sold March 3, 2026 to POST for $24.3M; San Carlos carrying ghost-load costs with zero agricultural output.",
  "exit_from": null,
  "drift_relationship": [
    "Rate-case-funded contracts passed to ratepayers for decades after work complete",
    "Estate-holding structures preserving generational extraction"
  ],
  "semantic_relationships": {
    "depends_on": [],
    "stabilizes": [],
    "monitored_for": [
      "estate_liquidation_signals",
      "POST_announcements",
      "Montecito_water_district_changes"
    ]
  },
  "related_essays": [],
  "related_filings": [],
  "associated_protocols": [
    "MARLOWE-HARD-LOCK"
  ],
  "framework": "Architecture of Dependency and Autonomy™",
  "author": "L.M. Marlowe",
  "registry_version": "v34.12",
  "last_updated": "2026-05-13",
  "canonical_url": "https://marloweaudit.com/registry/node-185.json",
  "human_page": "https://marloweaudit.com/nodes/index.html#node-185",
  "symmetry_side": "energy_analog",
  "mirror_tier_note": "Energy/Analog tier — one of the 186 nodes on the physical-grid side of the Symmetrical Grid™."
}