Resolution No. 279440
RESOLUTION NO. 2794
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CYPRESS
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 developed our nation's natural
resources, spreading the benefits of this low-cost electricity to millions
of Californians. These customers, including the members of the City
of Cypress 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
hydroelectric power; and
WHEREAS, SCE has over the past century developed a safe, reliable,
and economic system of hydroelectric generating facilities dedicated
to the use and benefit of more than three million customers representing
an area 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
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 Cypress 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
hydroelectric facilities, were FERC to remove from the hydroelectric
generating systems of SCE the following facilities:
1. SCE Rush Creek Project (Project No. 1389),
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 electricity from oil or gas
fired generating facilities; and
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
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, BE IT RESOLVED that the City Council of the City
of Cypress 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 millions of customers served by SCE; and
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BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Cypress City Council hereby requests
that all hearings concerning hydroelectric 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 Cypress City Council supports the
proposed Legislation H.R. 4402, "The Electric Consumers Protection Act
of 1983", to amend the Federal Power Act so as to not allow municipal
preference treatment during the relicensing of hydroelectric facilities;
and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that copies of this Resolution be forwarded
to The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, The California Public Utilities
Commission, appropriate members of the United States Congress and California
Legislature, and to the Southern California Edison Company.
PASSED AND ADOPTED by the City Council of the City of Cypress at
a regular meeting held on the 11th day of June 1984.
ATTEST:
CITY C ERK-2,-
OF S CITY/OF CYPRESS
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF ORANGE ) SS
MAYOR OF THE CITY OF CYPRESS
I, DARRELL ESSEX, City Clerk of the City of Cypress, DO HEREBY CERTIFY
that the foregoing Resolution was duly adopted at a regular meeting of
the said City Council held on the Ilth day of June 1984; by the following
roll call vote:
AYES: 5 COUNCIL MEMBERS: Coronado, Kanel, Lacayo, Mullen, and Partin
NOES: 0 COUNCIL MEMBERS: None
ABSENT: 0 COUNCIL MEMBERS: None
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CLERK THE CI3`Y
CITY OF CYPRESS