Docket No. ER21-1710-0001

FEDERAL ENERGY REGULATORY COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, DC 20426

OFFICE OF ENERGY MARKET REGULATION

New York Transco, LLC

Docket No. ER21-1710-000

Issued: 6/15/21

Evan C. Reese III

555 11th Street NW

Washington, DC 20004

Reference:Service Agreement No. 2617

On April 19, 2021, you submitted on behalf of New York Transco, LLC (NY Transco) an executed engineering, procurement, and construction agreement (EPC Agreement) entered into by NY Transco, Holcim (US) Inc. (Holcim), and the New York Independent System Operator, Inc. (NYISO) designated as Service Agreement No. 2617 under NYISO’s Open Access Transmission Tariff (OATT).[1] You state that NYISO selected NY’s Transco’s New York Energy Solution Project (Transmission Project), as part of NYISO’s Public Policy Transmission Need solicitation and that the Transmission Project requires certain modifications to the Holcim substation, a 115kV substation located in Ravena, New York. You further state that the EPC Agreement governs the rates, terms, and conditions regarding the engineering, procurement, and construction for the modifications to the Holcim substation.

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 2, 2021, as requested.[2]

The filing was noticed on April 19, 2021, with comments, interventions, and protests due on or before May 10, 2021. Pursuant to Rule 214 (18 C.F.R. § 385.214), 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 NY Transco, Holcim, or NYISO.

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