CVA Covanta Holding Corporation

As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on November 30, 2021

Registration No. 333-248901

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO. 1

TO

FORM S-3

REGISTRATION STATEMENT

UNDER

THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: (862) 345-5000.

Azeez Mohammed

Chief Executive Officer

Covanta Holding Corporation

445 South Street

Morristown, New Jersey 07960

(862) 345-5000

(Name, address and telephone number of agent for service)

With copies to:

Thomas L. Kenyon, Esq.

General Counsel and Secretary

Covanta Holding Corporation

445 South Street

Morristown, New Jersey 07960

(862) 345-5000

David S. Stone, Esq.

Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg LLP

Two North LaSalle Street

Chicago, Illinois 60602

(312) 269-8411

Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to the public: Not applicable

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RECENT EVENTS: DEREGISTRATION

This Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 (this “Post-Effective Amendment”), filed by Covanta Holding Corporation (the “Company”), removes from registration all of the unsold securities registered under the automatic shelf Registration Statement on Form S-3 (Registration Number 333-248901) filed by the Company with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on September 18, 2020 (the “Registration Statement”), pertaining to the registration of such indeterminate number of shares of common stock and preferred stock, indeterminate number of warrants and indeterminate principal amount of debt securities of the Company as may from time to time be offered at indeterminate prices via a prospectus supplement.

On November 30, 2021, pursuant to that agreement and plan of merger, dated as of July 14, 2021, by and among the Company, Covert Intermediate, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“Parent”), and Covert Mergeco, Inc., a Delaware corporation and wholly-owned subsidiary of Parent (“Merger Sub”), Merger Sub merged with and into the Company, with the Company continuing as the surviving corporation and as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Parent (the “Merger”). As a result of the Merger, the Company is terminating all offerings of its securities pursuant to the Registration Statement. The Company, by filing this Post-Effective Amendment, hereby terminates the effectiveness of the Registration Statement and removes from registration any and all shares of its securities registered but unsold under the Registration Statement as of the date hereof. This filing is made in accordance with the undertakings made by the Company in the Registration Statement to remove from registration by means of a post-effective amendment any of the securities that were registered but which remain unsold at the termination of the offering. The Registration Statement is hereby amended, as appropriate, to reflect the deregistration of such securities.

SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-3 and has duly caused this Post-Effective Amendment to the Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Morristown, State of New Jersey, on November 30, 2021.

No other person is required to sign this Post-Effective Amendment in reliance upon Rule 478 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.