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RESOLUTION NO. 83- 148 PAGE TWO 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 improve- ment 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 Santa Ana hereby urges and requests that the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission relicense these hydroelectric facilities to SCE, and to reject the applications of the munici- pal 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 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 City Council supports pro- posed legislation to amend the Federal Power Act so as to not allow municipal preference treatment during the relicensing of hydroelectric facilities; and