PSEG North Central Reliability Project mentioned in B Feeney email rcd 11 14 2025

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