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HPO Project# 11-1547-7 HPO £2012-033 PROD Page 6 of 8 is also significant for the Chapel of Immaculate Conception, which was the work of the noted midtwentieth century architectural firm of Eggers and Higgins. "The boundary of the eligible property is described as the entire Mount Saint Mary Academy campus on the north side of Route 22 (Block 6402, Lot 5) in the Borough of Watchung. Assessment of Adverse Effects The document PSE&G Senices Corporation, North Central Reliability Project, Historic Architectural Investigation Protocol and Area of Potential Effects Delineation (hereafter Protocol), December 20, 2011, described the appropriate criteria for evaluating the direct and indirect effects of the project on historic properties, both listed on and eligible for listing on the National Register of Historic Places. This document, approved by the HPO in letter A2012-174, January 25, 2012, included the following criteria for a direct adverse effect: "If the transmission line itself is evaluated as a National Register of Historic Places eligible resource and the proposed undertaking involves significant replacement or alteration of contributing infrastructure or equipment " The proposed removal and replacement of transmission line towers, in accordance with the adverse effect criteria of the Protocol, will have an adverse effect to the Northern Inner Ring Transmission Line. The Protocol also acknowledged that an adverse indirect effect would arise under the following circumstances: "If the installation or alteration of a transmission line would significantly interfere with the public's ability to interpret and appreciate the qualities of a historic cultural facility, including impairment of the vista or view shed if experiencing the view from the site is an important part of experiencing the site." "Anticipated project impacts will be assessed as being more likely to constitute an adverse effect on historic properties if: The resource impacted is an interpreted historic site open to the public or the resource impacted has been identified as a significant historic resource by a municipal or local historic preservation survey or plan." Using the above criteria for determining an indirect adverse effect, the New Jersey and National Registers of Historic Places listed Littell-Lord Farmstead at 23 and 31 Horseshoe Road (Berkeley Heights) and Gershom and Elizabeth

determining an indirect adverse effect, the New Jersey and National Registers of Historic Places listed Littell-Lord Farmstead at 23 and 31 Horseshoe Road (Berkeley Heights) and Gershom and Elizabeth Frazee House (Scotch Plains Township) will be adversely affected by the installation of monopoles within the viewshed of these two historic properties. Resolution of Adverse Effects Consultation between the HPO and PSE&G has determined that the technical specifications for the North Central Reliability Project preclude consideration of any alternatives that would avoid or minimize the adverse effects by, for example, retaining and rehabilitating existing transmission towers, constructing new lattice towers in place of the proposed monopoles or relocating towers to

HPO Project# 11-1547-7 HPO E2012-033 PROD Page 7 of 10 avoid or reduce visual adverse effects to historic properties. Consequently, the resolution of adverse effects will require mitigation as described below. The HPO requests the following as permit conditions: 1) Northern Inner Ring Transmission Line Recordation Prior to the commencement of any demolition activities, the National Register of Historic Places eligible Northern Inner Ring Transmission Line shall be documented according to the standards of the Historic American Engineering Records (HAER). At a minimum, the documentation will include: digital photographic recordation of the transmission line corridor, typical transmission tower types (standard suspension, dead end, and turning), construction details, and important alterations completed during the resource's period of significance. Photographs of the switching substations at Athenia, Roseland, West Orange, and Metuchen should be included as a means of contextualizing the transmission line in relation to its connections with the wider electrical system. The recordation shall include an historic context element that documents the reasons for the construction of the Northern Inner Ring Transmission Line; the technology and engineering used in its development; and the role the Northern Inner Ring Transmission Line played in the growth of PSE&G and industrial New Jersey. To the extent practical and within the constraints imposed by current security considerations, the recordation effort should seek out and duplicate selected historic photographs, drawings, plans, or other primary source records pertaining to the line. Preparation of New Jersey Intrastate Transmission Line National Register of Historic Places Assessment Guidelines An additional mitigation effort shall involve the preparation of a document that will serve to provide context and guidelines for future National Register of Historic Places evaluations of elements of New Jersey's pre-1946 intrastate electrical transmission grid. The overarching purpose of this work will be to establish a framework for differentiating between truly historic and technologically significant resources and those that are extensively modified and less historically noteworthy. Focusing primarily on the technological contributions of the transmission line network, the document will recommend methods for

nd those that are extensively modified and less historically noteworthy. Focusing primarily on the technological contributions of the transmission line network, the document will recommend methods for establishing character-defining features, contributing / noncontributing elements, periods of significance, and resource boundaries. The impacts of typical past upgrade modifications to towers and other infrastructure will be considered as part of the process of developing a protocol for the assessment of overall transmission line historic integrity. This work will focus on infrastructure constructed for the purpose of the bulk transmission of electrical power over distances rather than for the distribution of power to individual consumers. With this in mind, only transmission line infrastructure with an original capacity of 13 kV or higher will be considered. The 13kV minimum takes into account the earliest long-distance transmission lines, which were built beginning in the first decade of the twentieth century as part of an industry-wide move towards consolidation, interconnection, and new central plant construction, and which marked the beginning of large-scale long distance transmission. A digital map of major

HPO Project# 11-1547-7 HPO E2012-033 PROD Page 8 of 8 intrastate public utility constructed transmission lines constructed in New Jersey prior to 1946 will be provided as part of this effort. 2) Littell-Lord House (Farmstead) The permittee shall donate the sum of $32,500 to the Township of Berkeley Heights (Union County), the owner of the Littell-Lord House (23 and 31 Horseshoe Road), to enhance the pastoral quality of this previously agricultural historic property through the preparation of a landscape plan. 3) Frazee House The permittee shall donate the sum of $32,500 to the Rotary Club ofFanwood-ScotchPlains, the owner of the Gershom and Elizabeth Frazee House, to fund further stabilization of this historic house in accordance with the existing Gershom and Elizabeth Frazeee House Preservation Plan. The results of Phase I/II archaeological survey and project adverse effects on archaeological site 28-Un-52 was addressed under a separate letter dated March 12, 2012 (HPO-C2012-99 PROD). Upon HPO approval of the archaeological mitigation and site avoidance plan, site mitigation work on archaeological site 28-Un-52 may commence. Additional Comments If you need any further assistance, please contact Charles Scott at (609) 633-2396 or Charles.Scott@dep.state.nj.us for above-ground architectural and engineering resources or Vincent Maresca at (609) 633-2395 or Vinny.Maresca@dep,state.nj.us for archaeological resources.. C: Mr. Raymond Tripodi, PSE&G Ms. Jennifer Leynes, Richard Grubb and Associates, Inc. 11-1547-S PSE&G North Central Reliability Project