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CITY OF NORTH OI~ISTED RESOLUTION N0. 6 ~' / ~-~~ RESE)LUTIpN REt~STING THE 85th C~iGRES5 OF THE UN:tTED STATES, SECOND SESSIO~1, TO DEFEAT PR(~POS'ED IEGI3I.ATI(~t, H. B. 6790 AND H. B. 6791, WHICH PKCff'OSES TO AMENlI THE NATURAL GAS ACT BY EIEMPTING THE FRt~i?UCTION OF NATURAL GAS StE~D Il~t INT~3TATE CONIl~9!;EtCE FROM! RI;GUT.ATION BY THE FEQERAL POWER CtES+L{SSION, BY CONFERRING ~'. JURISDICTION OVF,R PRE~UCFR CO~JTR,ACTS Ft~t THE SALE OF NATURAL GAS, AND BY INCORPORATING INTO LAW TAE '~ FAIR-FIELD PRICE C(I~TCEPT IN ADMtNISTRATItA+T OF THL NATURAL GAS ACTS AND DECLARING AN F~lERGENCY~ WHERICAS, the Natural Gas Act of 1938 was passed by the Congress for the primary purpose of protecting the consumers of natural gas against exploitation at the hands of natural gas suppliers; and 4~III~tEAS, the Supreme Court of the United States in the case of Phillips Petroleum Co. v. State of Wisconsin, et al., 3l~7 U. S. 672 (1950, declared that the Natural Gas Act of 1938 encompasses the regulation of independent producers of natural gas; and 6diEkF~AS, since the passage of the Natural Gas Act of 1938, the independent producers of natural gas have obtained the introduction of at least sin mayor legislative proposals in the various Congresses for exemption frog the provisions of said A~et; and T~IEREAS, the last of these legislative proposals was the Harris-Ftilbright B311 which was passed by the 8l~th Congress but vetoed by the President of the United States; and W~iERT,AS, proposed legislation has been introduced again i.n the present session of the 85th Congress of the United States, H. B. 6790 by Mr. Oren H~ris and H. B. 6791 by Mr, Joseph P. O~Hara; and WI~1S, these legislative proposals have as their purpose the exemption of independent producers from the jurisdiction of the Federal Power Commission save a limited 3uriadiction over producer contracts for the sale of natural gas, and would establish the fair-field price concept in the administration of the Natural Gas Act; and WHERE'~AS, such legislation would not be i.n the publ3.c interest because it would violate the basic iirtandment of the Natural Gan ,Act of 1938 by abolishing the effec- tive regulation of the cost of gas sold by producers, thus placing reliance on the operation of the law of supply and demand in the ~'keting of this essential noa- eompetitive fuel in an economic atmosphere of captive consumers and increasing and unprecedented des+and; and T~kgREaS, representatives of the public have conacient~usly opposed similar legislation on behalf of the consumers of natural gas whose interests require `"""' effective regulation of the natural gas industry; and SEAS, this resolution constitutes an emergency measure providing for the usual daily operation of a municipal department; NOW, THEREFC~1?E, BE TT RESOLVED BY THE COUNCII, of the City of North Olmsted, State of Rio: Section 1. That the 85th Congress of the United States, Seeond Sessions be and it hereby is respectfully requested to defeat the legislative pr~rp®sal eonta,ined in H. B. 6794 introduced by Representative Oren Harris and H. B. 6791 istro~,ced bg Representative Joseph ~'. O~Hara, to amend the Natural Gas Act 'try exempting the gro- duction of natural gas sold in interstate eossieree frnx regulati®n by the Federal power Comm3.ssion, save for a 13~nited jurisdiction over producer contracts for the