HomeMy WebLinkAboutReso 135-1985 RESOLUTION NO. 135-85
CITY COUNCIL, CITY OF SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, STATE OF CALLFORNIA
A RESOLUTION SUPPORTING H.R. 44 AND S.426, THE
"ELECTRIC CONSUMERS PROTECTION ACT OF 1985"
WHEREAS, investor-owned electric utilities serve 72 million electric customers
in the United States -- almost 80 percent of all electric customers in the
nation; and
WHEREAS, those customers and their families represent over 176 million people
and 8 million industrial, commercial and agricultural customers; and
WHEREAS, over the last 80 years, a number of those utilities have developed
and paid for hydroelectric plants to supply economical, clean, renewable energy
to their customers; and
WHEREAS, hydroelectric generation has no associated fuel costs, unlike thermal
fuels; and
WHEREAS, hydroelectric generation saves the utilities' customers between
$1 billion and $3.5 billion per year in fuel costs; and
WHEREAS, a number of the licenses issued by the Federal Power Commission
-- now the Federal Ener§y Regulatory Commission (FERC) -- in the 1920's and
1930's to the utilities to build and operate these hydroelectric projects are
now expiring; and
WHEREAS, a number of city-run utilities have filed with the FERC to take over
the expiring licenses for those projects, and they have claimed a "preference"
over the millions of customers of the present owners and operators; and
WHEREAS, the continued ownership, and operation of these hydroelectric projects
by the present license-holders is in the public interest and to the social and
economic well-being of the customers presently served by the projects;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the City Council of the City of South San
Francisco hereby supports H.R. 44 and S. 426, the "Electric Consumers Protection
Act of 1985" or similar legislation that protects utility customers by amending
the Federal Power Act to provide that any existing licensee shall receive a new
license for its hydroelectric projects unless the existing licensee's past
and future operation of the project would not be in the public interest as
determined by the Federal Energy Rgulatory Commission under the standards
presently in the Act.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that copies of this Resolution be provided to
appropriate members of the U. S. Congress.
I hereby certify that the foregoing Resolution was regularly introduced and
adopted by the City Council of the City of South San Francisco at a regular
meeting held on the 26th day of June , 1985, by the following
vote:
AYES:
NOES:
ABSENT:
Councilmembers Mark N. Addiego, Emanuele N. Damonte, Gu$1,Nicolopulos;
and Roberta Cerri Teglia
None
Councilmember Ri chard A. Haffey
ATTEST:~city C1 ~~erk