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REL:adg 11/2/83 RESOLUTION NO. 83-148 A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA ANA IN SUPPORT OF RELICENS- ING OF HYDROELECTRIC PROJECTS TO THE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA EDISON COMPANY (FERC PROJECT NOS. 1388 & 1389) 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 of the City of Santa Ana, 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. 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 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 owner- ship 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 residents of the City of Santa Ana 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: