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Reso 1983-402RESOLUTION NO. 83 -402 A RESOLUTION OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE COSTA MESA SANITARY DISTRICT OF ORANGE ODUNTY, CALIFORNIA, IN SUPPORT OF RELICENSING FEDERAL ENERGY REGULATORY COMMISSION PROJECTS 1388 and 1389, HYDROELECTRIC PROJECTS, TO THE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA EDISON COMPANY THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE OOSTA MESA SANITARY DISTRICT OF ORANGE 00UNTY, CALIFORNIA, DO HEREBY RESOLVE AS FOLLOWS: 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 residents served by the Costa Mesa Sanitary District, now face the possibility 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 eco- nomic system of hydroelectric generating facilities dedicated to the use and benefit of more than thee million customers representing an area population of over nine million people; and WHEREAS, certain of these hydroelectric facilities, consisting of projects licensd 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 resi- dents served by the Costa Mesa Sanitary District and to the best interest of the millions of other residential, canmercial, 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 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 transfered to the municipal entities seeking then, the customers served by SCE would be forced to pay, every year, increased power costs for electricity from oil or gas fired generating facil- ities; and . WHEREAS, the continued ownership, operation, and improvement of their hydro- electric 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 Costa Mesa Sanitary District hereby urges the 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 cus- tamers served by SCE; and r BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Costa Mesa Sanitary District hereby requests that all hearing 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 Board of Directors supports proposed legisla- tion to amend the Federal Power Act so as to not allow municipal preference treatment during the relicensing of hydroelectric facilities; and ATTEST: 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 Ccnpany. PASSED AND ADOPTED this 10th day of November, 1983. Secretary STATE OF CALIFORNIA) COUNTY OF ORANGE ) SS CITY OF COSTA MESA ) I, Florin T. Reichle, Assistant Secretary of the Costa Mesa Sanitary Dis- trict, hereby certify that the above and foregoing Resolution No. 83 -402, was duly and regularly passed and adopted by said Board of Directors at a regular meeting thereof, held on the 10th day of November, 1983. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the Costa Mesa Sanitary District, this 14th day of November, 1983. Assistant Secretary, Costa Mesa Sanitary District