1977-697RESOLUTION NO. 77R- 697
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF ANAHEIM APPROVING THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS
OF FOUR AGREEI IN CONNECTION WITH THE CITY
OF ANAHEIM'S PARTICIPATION IN SAN O NUCLEAR
GENERATING STATION (SONGS) UNITS 2 AND 3, AND
AUTHORIZING THE UTILITIES DIRECTOR TO EXECUTE
SAID AGREEMENTS ON BEHALF OF THE CITY OF ANAHEIM.
WHEREAS, Southern California Edison Company "Edison")
and San Diego Gas and Electric Company "San Diego present-
ly own, as tenants -in- common, a nuclear generating station
located on a site of approximately 90 acres in the northwest
corner of the Marine Corps Base, Camp Pendleton, California.,
and known as the San Onofre Nuclear Generation Station
"San Onofre"); and
WHEREAS, Edison, the City of Riverside, "Riverside
the City of Anaheim "Anaheim and the City of Banning entered
into the Settlement Agreement, dated August 4, 1972, under
which Edison offered to Riverside, Anaheim, and. the City of
Banning participation in the ownership and output of Units 2
and 3 at San Onofre; and
WHEREAS, Anaheim desires to participate in the
ownership, construction and operation of San Onofre Units 2
and 3; and
WHEREAS, in order to accomplish such participation,
a San Onofre Units 2 and 3 Participation Agreement, a
Supplemental Agreement for the Integration of Anaheim's Entitle-
ment in San Onofre Units 2 and 3, and an Edison Anaheim San
Onofre Transmission Service Agreement have been prepared, the
terms and conditions of which are acceptable to the City Council
of the City of Anaheim; and
WHEREAS, it is in the best interests of the City of
Anaheim to enter into said agreements; and
WHEREAS, while Anaheim, Edison, Riverside and San
Diego "Parties were negotiating the Participation Agreement,
a position taken by a "responsible technician" in the
Washington office of the Internal Revenue Service raised a
question as to whether acquisition by publicly owned utilities
and investor owned utilities of undivided co- tenancy interests
in utility facilities would disqualify the interest owned by
the investor owned utilities in such facilities as Section 38
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property for the purposes of the investment tax credit, pursuant
to the Internal Revenue Code and thus cause the investor owned
utilities to lose substantial tax benefits; and
WHEREAS, in order to resolve the question, Edison
is undertaking to obtain a Ruling of the Internal Revenue
Service that the acquisition by the Cities of an undivided
co- tenancy interest in San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station
Units 2 and 3 will not disqualify the ownership interest in
San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station Units 2 and 3 retained
by Edison and San Diego as Section 38 property for the
purposes of the investment tax credit; and
WHEREAS, the Parties recognize that such a ruling
cannot be obtained by November 1, 1977, the effective date of
the Participation Agreement; and
WHEREAS, Anaheim represents that it cannot prudently
issue revenue bonds to finance its acquisition of an interest
in San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station Units 2 and 3 until
the Participation Agreement has been executed; and
WHEREAS, Edison and San Diego represent that they
cannot prudently execute the Participation Agreement until
the question concerning the investment tax credit has been
resolved; and
WHIEREAS, a Letter Agreement (which includes said
Participation Agreement, Supplemental Agreement for the
Integration of Anaheims' Entitlement in San Onofre Units 2
and 3, and Edison- Anaheim San Onofre Transmission Service
Agreement as Exhibits thereto) has been prepared, the terms
of which provide, among other things, that said agreements
attached as Exhibits shall be executed and become effective
in accordance with the terms thereof when each Party is, in
its sole discretion, satisfied that the execution of said
agreements will not adversely affect the investment tax credit
for those portions of San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station
Units 2 and 3 owned by Edison and San Diego; and
WHEREAS, the terms of said conditions of said Letter
Agreement are acceptable to the City Council of the City of
Anaheim and it is in the best interests of the City of Anaheim
to enter into said agreement.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council
of the City of Anaheim that the terms and conditions of the
following Agreements are hereby approved and accepted:
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1. November 1, 1977 Letter Agreement
2. San Onofre Units 2 and 3 Participation Agreement
3. Supplemental Agreement for the Integration of
Anaheim's Entitlement in San Onofre Units 2 and 3.
4. Edison- Anaheim San Onofre Transmission Service
Agreement
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Utilities Director
of the City of Anaheim is authorized to execute said
November 1, 1977 Letter Agreement on behalf of the City of
Anaheim.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that, upon determination by
the City Council of the City of Anaheim that it is satisfied
that the execution of said San Onofre Units 2 and 3 Participa-
tion Agreement, Supplemental Agreement for the Integration of
Anaheims' Entitlement in San Onofre Units 2 and 3, and Edison
Anaheim San Onofre Transmission Service Agreement will not
adversely affect the investment tax credit for those portions
of San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station Units 2 and 3 owned
by Edison and San Diego, then, upon such determination, the
Utilities Director is hereby authorized to execute said
three agreements on behalf of the City of Anaheim.
THE FOREGOING RESOLUTION is approved and adopted by
the City Council of the City of Anaheim this 25th day of
October 1977.
ATTEST:
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CITY LERK OF T CITY OF ANAHEIM
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MAYO O_ HE C TY 0) JAHEIM
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA
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CITY OF ANAHEIM
CITY CLERK
I, LINDA D. ROBERTS, City Clerk of the City of Anaheim, do hereby certify that
the foregoing Resolution No. 77R -697 was introduced and adopted at a regular
meeting provided by law, of the City Council of the City of Anaheim held on
the 25th day of October, 1977, by the following vote of the members thereof:
AYES: COUNCIL MEMBERS: Kaywood, Seymour and Roth
NOES: COUNCIL MEMBERS: Kott and Thom
ABSENT: COUNCIL MEMBERS: None
CITY LERK OF' THE CI OF ANAHEIM
AND I FURTHER CERTIFY that the Mayor of the City of Anaheim signed said
Resolution No. 77R -697 on the 28th day of October, 1977.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the
City of Anaheim this 28th day of October, 1977.
I, LINDA D. ROBERTS, City Clerk of the City of Anaheim, do hereby certify that
the foregoing is the original of Resolution No. 77R -697 duly passed and adopted
by the Anaheim City Council on October 25, 1977.