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Docket 516
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  • Denied 5–3 on October 16, 2025. Reconsideration rejected February 5, 2026; final decision February 9, 2026. Docket 516R is closed.

United Illuminating 115-kV Railroad Transmission Line Rebuild

Connecticut Siting Council Docket No. 516 · Fairfield and Bridgeport

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Docket 516R · the album by Equity Uprise · 4 tracks. 01 "Money or the Power" (Equity Uprise ft. Ocho, McCluster & Old Jay, prod. PAX) · 02 "Environmental Injustice / Brave" (McCluster ft. Angel Kastro & Ocho).

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Equity Uprise is McCluster Corp's civic program and platform. Its Equity Uprise group is the cohort group for people who want to become Equity Uprise cohort policy writers.

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  1. Pre-filingConsultation
  2. Early 2023Application
  3. Spring 2023Parties
  4. Mid 2023Discovery
  5. Jul–Dec 2023Hearings
  6. Jan 2024Briefs
  7. Feb 2024Decision
  8. 2024–25516R
  9. Oct 2025Denied 5–3

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The Story,
Plain English

  1. 115,000volts on the two lines that ride the Metro-North catenary
  2. 7.3miles of corridor the new steel monopoles would follow
  3. 325filings in this archive, from consultation to closure
  4. 5–3the vote that denied it, October 16, 2025

How it ended

The players

  • United Illuminating: applicant
  • Connecticut Siting Council: decides
  • Town of Fairfield & City of Bridgeport: the towns on the route
  • BJ's Wholesale Club, Superior Plating, Fairfield Station Lofts, the grouped LLC owners: property on the route
  • The SCNET group, National Trust, Southport & church interests: neighborhood and preservation
  • State agencies: DOT, CEQ, SHPO, Airport Authority

The Evidence Room

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Know the Language

Certificate

The Certificate of Environmental Compatibility and Public Need: no certificate, no project.

Intervenor

A person, business, town, or group admitted as a participant: files exhibits, questions witnesses, argues.

CEPA intervenor

Intervention under the Connecticut Environmental Protection Act, for claims of unreasonable harm to air, water, or natural resources.

Interrogatories

Written questions answered on the record.

Pre-filed testimony

Written testimony, adopted under oath and cross-examined at the hearing.

Evidentiary hearing

Sworn witnesses, cross-examination, exhibits admitted.

Remand

A court sends the case back to the agency. That created Docket 516R.

Final decision

Findings of fact, an opinion, and a decision and order.

Docket 516R: closed

The 516R record · Council applications index

About this archive

This page is an independent public explainer and archive index. The Connecticut Siting Council docket page remains the official source. Public comments containing personal identifying information are not mirrored here; the Council makes limited-appearance comments available only by request, and this archive leaves it that way. Zoom hearing recordings remain external links to the official record.

Official source: Connecticut Siting Council · Docket No. 516