Docket No. ER16-1785-001 1

FEDERAL ENERGY REGULATORY COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20426

OFFICE OF ENERGY MARKET REGULATION

New York Independent System

Operator, Inc.

Docket No. ER16-1785-001

Issued: 7/19/16

New York Independent System Operator, Inc.

10 Krey Boulevard

Rensselaer, NY 12144

Attention: Carl F. Patka

Assistant General Counsel

Reference: Executed Operating Agreement Between the New York Independent System Operator, Inc. and New York Transco, LLC

Dear Mr. Patka:

On May 25, 2016, as amended on May 26, 2016, you filed, on behalf of the New York Independent System Operator, Inc. (NYISO), an executed Operating Agreement entered into between the New York Transco, LLC (Transco) and NYISO.[1] You state that the Operating Agreement conforms to NYISO’s pro forma Operating Agreement that NYISO has filed in Docket No. ER13-102-009 and that this Operating Agreement provides that NYISO and Transco will amend the agreement to incorporate any modifications to the pro forma Operating Agreement directed by the Commission including modifications on rehearing or appeal.

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 May 23, 2016, as requested.

The filing was noticed on May 26, 2016, with comments, interventions, and protests due on or before June 16, 2016. Pursuant to Rule 214 (18 C.F.R. § 385.214 (2015)), 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.

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.

Sincerely,

Kurt M. Longo, Director

Division of Electric Power

Regulation – East