HomeMy WebLinkAboutCC RES 83-100RESOLUTION NO. 83-100
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF TUSTIN,
CALIFORNIA, IN SUPPORT OF RELICENSING OF HYDROELECTRIC
PROJECTS TO THE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA EDISON COMPANY
Hydroelectric projects, owned and operated by Southern California
Edison Company (SCE), haVe utilized and developed our nation's resources,
spreading the benefits of this low-cost electricity to millions of Califor-
nians. These customers, including the residents of the City of Tustin, now
face the possibility, however, that the hydroelectric projects which they
helped develop and pay for may be taken away by municipal agencies. From
the standpoint of the broad public interest, it is preferable for as many
people as possible to continue to share the benefits of inexpensive hydro-
el ectric power.
WHEREAS, SCE has over the past century developed a safe, reliable,
10 and oconomic sy~t~ of hydroelect, ric generating facilities dedicat, ed to the
use and benefit of more than three million customers representing an area
11 population of over 9 million people; and
WHEREAS, certain of these hydroelectric facilities, consisting of
projects licensed by the Federal Power Commission, now known as the Federal
Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), are subject to consideration for reli-
censi ng by FERC; and
WHEREAS, certai~ municipal 'entities are endeavoring to secure for
themselves t.~o SCE hydroelectric powerplants, ~hich efforts, if successful,
would result in the transfer of ownership and operation of these hydroelec-
tric facilities from SCE, and would divert low cost power away from millions
of central and southern California customers for the benefit of a few thou-
sand served by the municipal entities; and
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WHEREAS, it would be directly contrary both to the best interest
of the City of Tustin and to the best interest of the millions of other
residential, commercial, agricultural,, and industrial customers served by
SCE whose rates have supported the ownership and operation of. these hydro-
electric facilities, were FERC to remove from the hydroelectric generating
systems of SCE the followin§ facilities'
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1. SCE Rush Creek Project No. 1389, which is located near June
Lake on the Eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada about sixty
mil es north of Bi shop, California.
2. SCE Peele Project No. 1388 which is located on Lee Vining
Creek also north of Bishop; and
25 WHEREAS, if any of these projects were to be transferred to the
2~ municipal entities seeking them, the customers served by SCE would be forced ........
to pay, ~ery ~ar, in~:reased power costs for electricity from oil or gas
27 fired generating facilities; and
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WHEREAS-, the continued ownership, operation, and improvement of
their hydroelectric generating facilities by SCE is essential to the public
interest and to the social and economic well-being of central and southern
Cali fornia consumers; and
WHEREAS, retention of these projects by their current owners is.
the only course consistent with the fullest improvement and utilization of
these resources in the public interest;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the City of Tustin hereby
urges and requests that the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission relicense
these hydroelectric facilities to SCE, and to reject the applications of the
municipal agencies seeking to take the benefits of projects away from the
mill ions of customers served by SCE; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the City hereby requests that all
hearings concerning hydroelectric relicensing applications by SCE be con-
ducted in the service territory where the projects are located and where the
public they were built to serve lives and works; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the City supports proposed legisla-
tion to amend the Federal Power Act so as to not allow municipal preference
treatment during the relicensing of hydroelectric facilities.
PASSED AND ADOPTED at a regular meeting of the City Council of the
City of Tustin, California, on the 21st day of November, 1983.
STATE OF CALIFORNIA
COUNTY OF ORANGE
CITY OF TUSTIN
MARY E. WYNN, City Clerk and ex-officio Clerk of the City Council of the City of
Tustin, California,. does hereby certify that the whole number of the members of
the City Council of the City of Tustin is five; that the above and foregoing
Resolution No. 83-100 was duly and regularly introduced, passed and adopted at a
regular meeting of th'e City Council held on the 21s. t day of November, 198.3, by the
fol 1 owing vote:
AYES : COUNCILPERSONS: Edgar,
NOES : COUNCILPERSONS: None
ABSENT: COUNCILPERSONS: None
Grei nke, Hoesterey, Kennedy, Sal tarel 1 i
City of Tusti n, Cal i forni a