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RESOLUTION NO. 5143
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF ARCADIA IN SUPPORT OF RELICENSING OF
HYDROELECTRIC PROJECTS TO THE SOUTHERN
CALIFORNIA EDISON COMPANY
WHEREAS, hydroelectric projects, owned and operated by
Southern California Edison Company (SCE), have utilized and devel-
oped our nation's natural resources, spreading the benefits of this
low-cost electricity to millions of Californians. These customers,
including the residents of Arcadia, California, now face the possi-
bility, 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 in-
expensive hydroelectric power; and
WHEREAS, SCE has over the past century developed a safe,
reliable, and economic system of hydroelectric generating facil-
ities dedicated to the use and benefit of more than three million
customers representing an area population of over nine million
people; and
WHEREAS, certain of these hydroelectric facilities, con-
sisting of projects licensed by the Federal Power Commission, now
known as the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), are
sUbject to consideration for relicensing by FERC; and
WHEREAS, certain municipal entities are endeavoring to
secure for themselves two SCE hydroelectric powerplants, which
efforts, if successful, would result in the transfer of ownership
and operation of these hydroelectric facilities from SCE, and would
divert low cost power away from millions of central and southern
California customers for the benefit of a few thousand served by
the municipal entities; and
WHEREAS, it would be directly contrary both to the best
interest of the City of Arcadia and to the best interest of the
millions of other residential, commercial, agricultural, and in-
dustrial customers served by SCE whose rates have supported the
ownership and operation of these hydroelectric facilities, were
FERC to remove from the hydroelectric generating systems of SCE
the following facilities:
1. SCE Rush Creek Project (Project No. l389),
which is located near June Lake on the
Eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada about
sixty miles north of Bishop, California.
2. SCE Poole Project (Project No. 1388), which
is located on Lee Vining Creek also north
of Bishop; and
WHEREAS, if any of these projects were to be transferred
to the municipal entities seeking them, the customers served by SCE
would be forced to pay, every year, increased power costs for elec-
tricity from oil or gas fired generating facilities; and
WHEREAS, the continued ownership, operation, and improve-
ment of their hydroelectric generating facilities by SCE is essen-
tial to the public interest and to the social and economic well-
being of central and southern California 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 THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ARCADIA
HEREBY RESOLVES AS FOLLOWS:
That the City Council of the City of Arcadia does hereby
urge and request 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 millions of customers served by SCE; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the City Council of the City
of Arcadia hereby requests that all hearings concerning hydroelec-
tric relicensing applications by SCE be conducted 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 Council of the City
of Arcadia supports proposed legislation to amend the Federal Power
Act so as to not allow municipal preference treatment during the
relicensing of hydroelectric facilities; and
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BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that copies of this resolution be
provided to:
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission,
The California Public Utilities Commission,
Appropriate members of the United States Congress,
Appropriate members of the California Legislature,
and the Southern California Edison Company.
The Clerk of the Council shall certify to the adoption
of this resolution and shall cause the same to be distributed as
noted above.
I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing resolution was
adopted at a regular meeting of the City Council of the City of
Arcadia held on the l5th day of November, 1983, by the affir-
mative vote of at least three Councilmen, to wit:
AYES:
NOES:
ABSENT:
Councilmen Lojeski, Dring, Hannah, Pellegrino
None
Councilman H~ltom ~, (7_ A
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City Clerk of the City of Arcadia
SIGNED AND APPROVED this l5th
ATTEST:
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Mayor of
City Clerk
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