FEDERAL ENERGY REGULATORY COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20426

OFFICE OF ENERGY MARKET REGULATION

New York Independent System Operator, Inc.

New York Transco, LLC

Docket No. ER15-572-007

Issued: October 29, 2019

Evan C. Reese III, Esq.

Day Pitney LLP

555 11th Street, N.W.

Washington, DC 20004-1300

Reference:Compliance Filing

On May 8, 2019, New York Independent System Operator, Inc. (NYISO) submitted, on behalf of New York Transco, LLC, (NY Transco), revisions to NYISO’s Open Access Transmission Tariff[1] to comply with the terms of the settlement agreement approved by the Commission on November 16, 2017, in this proceeding.[2]  Section 3.10 of the settlement agreement stipulated that, if NY Transco was selected to build any portion of the projects defined in the settlement agreement as the AC Transmission Projects, NY Transco would make a compliance filing within 30 days of the date that the NYISO makes its selection.  NY Transco states that the NYISO Board of Directors has made a final selection assigning Segment B of the AC Transmission Projects to Niagara Mohawk Power Corporation and NY Transco.  The tariff revisions satisfactorily comply with the requirements of the settlement agreement and the Commission’s November 16, 2017 Order in this proceeding.

Pursuant to the authority delegated to the Director, Division of Electric Power Regulation – East, under 18 C.F.R. §375.307, your submittal is accepted for filing, effective April 8, 2019.

The filing was noticed on May 8, 2019, with comments, interventions, and protests due on or before May 29, 2019.  Pursuant to Rule 214 (18 C.F.R. § 385.214 (2019)), to the extent that any timely filed motions to intervene and any motion to intervene out-of-time were filed before the issuance date of this order, such interventions are granted.  Granting late interventions at this stage of the proceeding will not disrupt the proceeding or place additional burdens on existing parties. 

This acceptance for filing shall not be construed as constituting approval of the referenced filing or of any rate, charge, classification, or any rule, regulation, or practice affecting such rate or service contained in your filing; nor shall such acceptance be deemed as recognition of any claimed contractual right or obligation associated therewith; and such acceptance is without prejudice to any findings or orders which have been or may hereafter be made by the Commission in any proceeding now pending or hereafter instituted by or against NYISO and NY Transco.

This order constitutes final agency action.  Requests for rehearing by the Commission may be filed within 30 days of the date of issuance of this order, pursuant to 18 C.F.R. § 385.713.

Issued by:  Kurt M. Longo, Director, Division of Electric Power Regulation – East

[1] New York Independent System Operator, Inc., NYISO Tariffs, NYISO OATT, 6.13 OATT Schedule 13 – Rate Mechanism for the Recovery, 2.0.0 and NYISO OATT, 36 OATT Attachment DD - Rules to Allocate the Cost of NY Tra, 3.0.0.

[2] New York Independent System Operator, Inc., 161 FERC ¶ 61,161 (2017) (November 16, 2017 Order).