Exhibit 9

Northern Pass Project General Area Map of South Section \\ESPSRV\Data\Data2\Projects\NUS\53899_DC_Tline\GIS\DataFiles\ArcDocs\Presidential Permit\Exhibit_9_South_Section_22x34_062713.mxd Map Index .! LEGEND

Project Area State Boundary

*# Existing Substation North *# Proposed Converter Station o Airport .! Proposed Route Public Lands and Conservation Easements Primary Protecting Agency Existing Transmission ROW Central George Duncan State Forest Federal Huston - Morgan State Forest Scenic Roads/Byways (!11 New Hampton State Meredith .! City/Village Municipal/County CARROLLSouth Town Boundary State Forest Other Public/Quasi-Public Governors State Park COUNTY County Boundary Private NEWWolfeboro HAMPSHIRE Sleeper - Agric. Pres. Rest. Knights Pond Black Brook WMA Laconia 3 ¤£ Saltmarsh Pond Boat Launch Facility

Sanbornton Gilford Beaver Brook CE .! Hill Laconia Beaver Brook WMA *# Saltmarsh Pond State Forest Laconia S/S State Forest State Forest (!11 Franklin Falls Reservoir

Hidden Valley CE Alton

Welch - Agric. Pres. Rest. Webster Lake WMA (!127 Brennick Lochmere Archaeological Site Dam Lochmere Dam Site Belmont Alton Bay State Forest Powdermill Fish Hatchery Franklin Tilton BELKNAP Webster S/S 107 New Durham (! COUNTY Merrymeeting Marsh Dam - Alton *# Coldrain Pond Remote Access Facility Sanborn State Forest .! Alton Franklin STRAFFORD .! Tilton .! .! COUNTY Belmont

.! Northfield (!140 Merrymeeting Marsh WMA Page State Forest Gilmanton

Northfield Meadow Pond State Forest Daniel Webster Birthplace Historic Site Rocky Pond Restoration Area North Island Proposed Converter Station Ingalls Island *#

Salisbury Mitigation Tract State Forest Nursery Shaker State Forest Ayers State Forest Meeh, M.G. & T. Easement B Meeh & McCullough Prescott (!132 ¤£4 (!106 Shaker Village Barnstead Farmington Easement G

Canterbury WMA Bergeron WMA Blue Job WMA Osborne WMA

Smith Tract (Lot 2) State Forest Grady Tract

Hildreth - Agric. Pres. Rest. Sanborn - Agric. Pres. Rest. Morrill Pond WMA 129 Boscawen Loudon (! .! Boscawen

.! Pittsfield Frank J. Lyman Boat Launch Facility (!126 ¨¦§93 Hoit Road Kimball WMA 4 Marsh WMA ¤£ Pittsfield Hannah Dustin Historic Site Oak Hill S/S Hirst WMA *# Strafford Oak Hill Fire Tower SPNHF (Blood) Webster Blood - Agric. Pres. Rest. Soucook River State Forest Sewalls Falls WMA Sewall Falls WMA Turtletown Chichester Pond WMA Allen State Forest

Taylor State Forest 28 Mast Yard State Forest (! Technical Institute ¨¦§393 - Low Area MERRIMACK Ladd Tract 202 Ross - Agric. Pres. Rest.State Prison Farm + Quarries NHTI/Concord - (! Island Reserve COUNTY DOT - Epsom Abbott State Forest Scenic Easement Concord ¤£202 District #5 State Forest 107 Walker State Forest Epsom (! Rossview Farm Northwood Karner Blue Natl. Concord .! Wildlife Refuge - Area B Kimball o Pleasant Lake Boat Launch Facility Hopkinton Concord Municipal Airport Northwood Meadows 103 ! (! State Park . Northwood ¤£202 White Farm Forest Peters WMA Goodwin - Chandler Russell-Shea Woodman State Forest Pembroke (!152 Upton-Morgan State Forest Mitigation Wetland Marsh WMA 89 UNH - Saddleback ¨¦§ State Forest Woodman Cilley State Forest Mountain State Forest West Iron Works Read State Forest Garvins S/S Corey WMA Doles Marsh WMA *# - Access Lamontagne WMA (!28 Pages Corner State Forest Turee Pond Boat Launch Facility

Merrimack S/S *# *# Allenstown Deerfield Cold Spring Pond Deerfield S/S .! Dam Site - Allenstown Bow Suncook Hopkinton-Everett Flood Control Reservoir

Dunbarton (!3 Lambert Park Boat Launch Facility Nottingham Hooksett.! 107 13 (! Piscataquog (! State Forest Kimball Pond Tract ROCKINGHAM Weare COUNTY Hooksett (!43 Candia *# (!27 Pine Hill S/S (!156 Manchester-Portsmouth RR Bed Merrimack River Access .! Raymond .! South Hooksett Raymond UNH - Manchester (Hackett Hill) Goffstown .! NORTH Goffstown (!28 (!101 Glen Lake *#+ Gress Falls WMA Youth Development Center Backland 7,0003,500 0 7,000 Rousseau Hodgkins Feet Lang Station State Forest Greggs Falls S/S Byam (!114 .! Pinardville Exhibit 9 107 77 13 .! (! (! (! Manchester Auburn 06-27-13 Revision New Boston HILLSBOROUGH 293 Surrette ¨¦§ 121 28 (! Hillsborough County 4-H Foundation COUNTY (! Northern Pass Project Miller (Todd) Fremont .! General Area Map of New Boston Manchester South Section Source: USGS 1:100,000 Topographic Quadrangles; NH GRANIT GIS Data; Vermont Center for Geographic Information; Esri; Burns & McDonnell.