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RESOLUTION NO. 83-13
RESOLUTION OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE YORBA LINDA COUNTY WATER DISTRICT
IN SUPPORT OF RELICENSING 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 customers of Yorba Linda County Water District,
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 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
customers of the Yorba Linda County Water District 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
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