CC RESOLUTION 3236RESOLUTION NO. 3236
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF EL SEGUNDO, CALIFORNIA, IN SUPPORT
OF RELICENSING OF HYDROELECTRIC PROJECTS
TO SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA EDISON COMPANY
(FEDERAL ENERGY REGULATORY COMMISSION
PROJECT NOS. 1388 & 1389)
WHEREAS, Southern California Edison Company has
over the past eighty _years developed a safe, reliable, and
economic system of hydroelectric generating facilities; and
WHEREAS, efforts are being made by certain municipal
entities to secure for themselves two Southern California
Edison hydroelectric power projects on Rush and Lee Vining
Creeks through applications to the Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission (hereinafter referred to as FERC); and
WHEREAS, it would be directly contrary to the best
interests of the citizens of the City of El Segundo if FERC
were to cut out of the Southern California Edison hydroelectric
generating system either of the following two facilities:
1. Rush Creek Project (Project No. 1389), which
is located near June Lake on the Eastern
slope of the Sierra Nevada, about 60 miles
north of Bishop, California.
2. Poole Project (Project No. 1388), which is
located on Lee Vining Creek also north of
Bishop; and
WHEREAS, the continued ownership, operating and
improvement of its hydroelectric generating facilities by
Southern California Edison is essential to the public interest
and to the social and economic well being of the people of
southern and central California.
NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF EL
SEGUNDO, CALIFORNIA, DOES RESOLVE AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. The City Council of the City of El Segundo
hereby urges and requests that the Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission promptly relicense these hydroelectric facilities to
Southern California Edison Company, and to reject the applica-
tions of the municipally -run utilities; and
SECTION 2. The City Council of the City of El Segundo
hereby requests that hearings concerning Southern California
Edison Company's hydro relicensing applications be conducted
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in the service territory of Southern California Edison Company
where the projects are located and the public they were built
to serve lives and works; and
SECTION 3. The City Clerk shall certify to the passage
and adoption of this resolution; shall enter the same in the
book of original resolutions of said city; and shall make a
minute of the passage and adoption thereof in the records of
the proceedings of the City Council of said city in the minutes
of the meeting at which the same is passed and adopted; and
SECTION 4. The City Clerk shall provide copies of
this resolution 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.
PASSED, APPROVED and ADOPTED this 6th day of
December , 1983.
ATTEST:
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City Clerk
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES )
CITY OF EL SEGUNDO
I, Valerie A. Burrowes , City Clerk of the City of
E1 Segundo, California, DO HEREBY CERTIFY that the whole number of
members of the City Council of the said City is five; that the
foregoing resolution, being Resolution No. X236 was duly passed
and adopted by the said City Council, approved and signed by the
Mayor of said City, and attested by the City Clerk of said City, all
at a regular meeting of the said Council held on the 6th day of
December 19'83 and that the same was so passed and
adopted by the following vote:
AYES: Council Members Armstrong, Johnson, Siadek
Synadinos and Mayor Bue
NOES: Council Member None
ABSENT: Council Member None
WITNESS MY HAND AND THE OFFICIAL SEAL OF SAID CITY this
— 12th day of December 2 19 83
City Clerk of the City of El Segundo,
California