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Affidavit of Gj Catapano Re Kensington Contentions 2 & 10.If Stated Equipment Installed,Emergency Notification Will Be Adequate.Certificate of Svc Encl
ML20195B969
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Site: Seabrook  NextEra Energy icon.png
Issue date: 05/16/1986
From: Catapano G
ALLCOMM, INC.
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f AFFIDAVIT OF GARY J. CATAPANO RE KENSINGTON CONTENTIONS NOS. 2 AND 10 GARY J. CATAPANO, being on oath, deposes and says as follows:

1. He is the President of AllComm, Inc. which has contracted with the joint owners of Seabrook Station to evaluate and design communications systems and to specify communications equipment for emergency planning purposes in connection with Seabrook Station. A statement of his professional background and qualifications is attached hereto and marked "A".
2. The notification sequence for the Town of Kensington has been revised to reflect changes in the Town's 8605290605 860D20 PDR ADOCK 05000443 G PDR L., . . . . . . . .

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Police Department and to improve the notification sequence described in earlier planning documents. Those revisions will appear in a plan revision due to be completed on or about June 1, 1986.

3. The proposed new sequence of notification is as follows: Rockingham County Dispatch (hereafter RCD) will notify the police officer on duty or on call, this notification will be made via radio pager.
4. At the same time the radio page is sent to the police officer on duty or on call a simultaneous notification will also be provided by RCD to the selectmen, the civil defence director and the fire chief via radio pagers. The police officer then has the primary responsibility for verifying the receipt of the message from RCD and for notifying the emergency response organization for the Town. The police officer has 10 minutes to make the verifications to the fire chief, civil defense directors, and the selectmen. The fire chief is the first verification of notification that the police officer makes. In the event that the fire chief is not notified within 10 minutes of the receipt of the radio page, the fire chief would attempt to contact the police officer via r.elephone, portable radio or mobile radio and if unable to do so they would follow the procedures outlined for the police officer on duty and make the appropriate verifications. If the chairman of the board of selectmen has not received verification from the police 1

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officer or the fire chief within 15 minutes of the receipt of the radio page he should attempt to contact them and in the event he'is not successful he should implement the notification sequence for the police officer on duty.

5. Additional radio equipment was purchased for the Kensington Police Department as part of a complete reconfiguration of the existing communications network and the installation of this equipment was begun. (Installation was halted, insofar as I am aware at the direction of some official of the Town.) When installed, the on-duty police officer will be equipped with a new high power portable, a new pager and new mobile to communicate with RCD with contiguous Police Departments, Fire Departments, the New Hampshire State Police and the IFO. It is important to recognize that this radio equipment will be in daily use by the Department and any malfunctioning radio equipment would be identified on a daily basis. Sufficient radio equipment was purchased to allow for units that may be out of service for repairs.
6. New radio pagers have been purchased for all key municipal officials as outlined in Kensington's RERP.
7. As part of an EPZ-wide effort to upgrade the existing communications systems, discussions were held with Kensington public safety officials. Based upon an evaluation of the existing communications equipment, input from local public safety officials, consideration of

technical parameters and an analysis of the communications requirements of the RERP a reconfiguration of Kensington's communications systems was developed. A complete complement of radio communications equipment was purchased for Kensington Police Department to allow each officer to have a portable unit and a pager, new mobile units and a base station with a backup AC power source were also purchased.

8. New mobile units, portables, and pagers were also purchased for the Fire Department. All of the equipment purchased is wide band multifrequency capable of allowing communications to occur on numerous frequencies.
9. A complete communications package was also purchased for the EOC which is located at the fire station on the second floor. Included in this package is a NHCDA command and control radio and a (2) meter RACES radio which

, provides the backup system for command and control. A new high power multifrequency scanning base station was also purchased to allow communications with surrounding communities emergency response organizations and other agencies that might be sent in to assist Kensington. A new multiline telephone system and additional phone lines will be added to the EOC to provide adequate communications.

Sufficient portables, pagers and mobiles have been purchased to allow the fire and police departments to conduct their routine public safety activities at the same time that 4-

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communicating information related to the RERP.  ;

10. This communications network is engineered _to allow the EOC in Kensington to coordinate and control the Town's emergency response activities and communicate directly with ROD, the State, surrounding EPZ communities, the host communities and other agencies that may be sent in to assist Kensington. At RCD center a number of improvements have been made to allow for the additional communications associated with Seabrook Station and the RERP. Special paging encoders have been installed to facilitate the required paging notifications and to simplify the actions required by the dispatcher to achieve them. The transceiver primarily utilized for the paging notifications is being replaced with a new continuous duty rated, high power station. A new phone system has been installed at the dispatch center along with specialized emergency line and call logging recorders. An additional communications console and fire dispatch area have been added to allow greater flexibility for dispatch operations.
11. The signal strength from the transmitter sites utilized by RCD to communicate with Kensington is more than adequate for all paging and mobile communications. Numerous channels exist for RERP communications to occur on, providing redundancy should a channel become unusable for any reasons. These improvements coupled with the L

improvements planned for Kensington's own internal communications systems and the installation of an emergency power generator planned for the EOC/ Fire Station will make this a highly reliable and effective communications network.

12. Based upon all of the foregoing, it is my opinion that there is reasonable assurance that, if the installation of the purchased equipment is completed, there will be in place adequate equipment and notification procedures to provide the required notification for the Town of Kensington.

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' Gark)J. Catapano THE' COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS Suffolk, ss. May 16, 1986 Then appeared before me the above-subscribed Gary J.

Catapano and made oath that he had read the foregoing affidavit and that the statements set forth therein are true to the best of~his knowledge, Before me, i'e.-7 f)/ /_

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My Commission Expires:

KAREN D. RAMACORTI, Note / Pub!!

f4 corrmien nsm eu. 3 ut7 Professional Qualifications of Gary J. Catapano President, Allcomm Inc.

My name is Gary J. Catapano and my business address is AllComm Inc., Rt. 32, 381 Old Homestead Highway, North Swanzey, NH 03431. I am the President of AllComm Inc., a company specializing in design of emergency communications systems founded by me in July of 1984.

I have studied electrical engineering at suffolk Community College and other related curriculum at Keene State College and Nathaniel Hawthorne College. I am a 1970 graduate of L.A. Wilson Tech where I studied Radio and Television Electronic Communications.

I hold a " Lifetime" FCC General Class Radiotelephone Engineering license and I am certified as an R.F.

Engineering Technician by the National Association of Business and Educational Radio (NABER). I am also a member of NABERS Professional Mobile Radio Service Section.

I have additional special education in the following areas: microwave radio system design, telephone systems, telephone systems traffic theory and network design. I have also participated in 14 special training seminars covering all aspects of the land mobile communications field. I have developed engineering programs to aid in the prediction and e

. elimination of the~ harmful interference caused by undesired -

radio transmissions.

I am certified by the National Association of Radio and Telecommunications Engineers (NARTE) as communicatiens engineer with special skill endorsements in three areas:

land mobile systems, land mobile interference and analysis and suppression, and inside plant telephone engineering. I a

am also a senior member of NARTE.

Since July of 1985 my company has been employed by New Harpshire Yankee to conduct an evaluation of the communications networks utilized by the communities involved with the Seabrook Station Radiological Emergency Response Plan. I assumed the lead responsibility for this project which consisted of four phases. The objectives of Phase 1 were to study and identify the types of systems currently in place and identify existing problem areas. This first phase involved extensive field work and interviews with public safety officials of the states, counties, and the local municipalities. Phase 2 involved the analysis of this information in order to determine the effect that the additional RERP communications would have on the existing systems and to formulate the engineering changes.

Subsequent meetings were held again with public safety officials to review the recommendations. Phase 3 involved the installation test and debug of all of the equipment; l

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. Phase 4 vill involve further refinement of these systems, documentation and training.

Prior to my beginning this project my firm assisted Verment Yankee in the relocation of their Emergency Operations Facility to its new location. My responsibility was for the design and installation of the radio communications systems for this facility and to minimize and eliminate any interference that resulted from the co-location of communications facilities. We also performed this came function for Yankee Atomic Electric Company's  ;

emergency operations facility for the Rowe, MA Nuclear Power Plant. Ao part of this current project I have assisted the utility and the State of New Hampshire with design and installation of the communications networks for the emergency operations facility and the State's Incident Field office. We are also in the process of providing the same assistance to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

Prior to my founding Allcomm Inc. I was employed ac the General Manager of HEW Communications, Inc. as part of my duties while at HEW April of 1981 to the August of 1982 I was the project manager and engineer for the design and installation of the emergency communications systems that form the backbone of the public notification systec and emergency communications networks for 34 nunicipalities and 3 state civil defense agencies involved with the Vermont yankee Nuclear Power Plant and Yankee Atomic Electric

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. Company, Rowe, MA Nuclear Power Plant. This project involved an assessment of the existing communications capabilities, extensive interviews with local public safety officials, the design of new communications systems and integration with existing systems. I had the lead responsibility for.the entire project including the training-and documentation which included two comprehensive technical manuals which provide the foundation for the utilities FEMA-43 submittals. During the initial phase of this project much of the existing guidance for the design of public notification systems and emergency communications systems did not exist. I provided technical support to Yankee Atomic Electric Company in drafting comments to FEMA's proposed guidance for the acceptance of alert and notification systems.

As part of this project I also designed a special system in cooperation with NOAA (National Weather Service) which links vital information from the National Weather Service offices in Burlington, Vermont to over 8,000 Alert receivers located approximately 100 miles away in some of the residences within the Emergency Planning Zones of both plants. This system operates 24 hours2.777778e-4 days <br />0.00667 hours <br />3.968254e-5 weeks <br />9.132e-6 months <br />, 365 days a year.

My firm currently has the responsibility for the surveillance and maintenance programs for these systems.

Since early 1982 they have been in operation functioning -

with a very high percentage of operability (over 99%).

' I have also participated in four full scale federally witnessed emergency exercises and numerous full scale drills providing communications support (troubleshooting, diagnosis and emergency repair) to the utilities and state agencies.

f My firm currently provides these emergency communications support services to three nuclear power facilities in New England.

Prior the Seabrook project while at AllComm and HEW I have been called in as an expert to " debug" many types of

-communications systems that were not functioning as intended. Also during this time I designed and installed many types of electronic communications systems. This work i

included projects for state agencies, electric utilities, county governments, local public safety agencies and regional fire mutual aid compacts, business and industrial concerns. With divestiture of the Bell System this work grew to include the design and installation of telephone networks and increasing liaison work with the Bell Operating 4

Company-(NYNEX). I currently hold technical certifications for four different manufacturers of telephone systems including two sophisticated PABX systems.

From 1977 to 1979 while at HEW, I was the senior communications technician with the lead responsibility for the maintenance and preventative maintenance and system debug for a public safety communications network that i

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, spanned portions of t.hree states and encompassed three counties and included 52 municipalities.

All of my prior employment dating back to 1965 include positions of increasing responsibility in the electronics field. The study of electronic communications has been a lifelong pursuit for me dating back to early childhood.

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PUBLIC SERVICE COMPANY OF ) Docket Nos. 50-443-OL NEW HAMPSHIRE, et al. ) 50-444-OL

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CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE I, Thomas G. Dignan, Jr., one of the attorneys for the applicants herein hereby certify that on May 20, 1986, I

, made service of the following documents in accordance with the Commission's Rules of Practice and the relevant order of the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board:

1. Applicants' Motion for Summary Disposition of Kensington Contention No. 6 and South Hampton Contentions Nos. 1 and 3.
2. Affidavit of Richard H. Strome re Kensington Contention No. 6 and South Hampton Contentions Nos. 1 and 3.
3. Applicants' Motion for Summary Disposition of NECNP Contention No. RERP-3 and SAPL Contention No. 14.

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4. Affidavit of Richard H. Strome re NECNP Contention No. RERP-3 and SAPL Contention No. 14.
5. Applicants' Motion for Summary Disposition of Rye Contention No. 2.
6. Affidavit of Richard H. Strome re Rye Contention No. 2.
7. Applicents' Motion for Summary Disposition of NECNP Contention No. RERP-2.
8. Affidavit of Richard H. Strome re NECNP Contention No. RERP-2.
9. Applicants' Motion for Summary Disposition of Kensington Contention No. 7 and NECNP Contention No. RERP-12.
10. Affidavit of William T. Wallace re Kensington Contention No. 7 and NECNP Contention RERP-12.
11. Applicants' Motion for Partial Summary Disposition of South Hampton Contention No. 8, NECNP Contention NHLP-4 and SAPL Contentions 18 and 25.
12. Affidavit of Richard H. Strome re South Hampton Contention No. 8, NECNP Contention No. NHLP-4, and SAPL Contentions Nos. 18 and 25.
13. Applicants' Motion for Summary Disposition of SAPL Contention No. 5 and NECNP Contention RERP-10.
14. Affidavit of James A. MacDonald re SAPL Contention No. 5 and NECNP Contention RERP-10.

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15. Affidavit of William T. Wallace re SAFL Contention No. 5 and NECNP Contention RERP-10.
16. Applicants' Motion for Summary Disposition of SAPL Contention No. 7.
17. Affidavit of William T. Wallace re SAPL Contention No. 7.
18. Applicants' Motion for Summary Disposition of NECNP Contention No. NHLP-3 and SAPL Contention No. 17.
19. Affidavit of Gary J. Catapano re NECNP Contention NHLP-3 and SAPL Contention 17.
20. Applicants' Motion for Summary Disposition of Kensington Contentions Nos. 2 and 10.
21. Affidavit of Gary J. Catapano re Kensington Contentions Nos. 2 and 10.

Such service was made by depositing copies thereof with Federal Express, prepaid, for delivery to (or, where indicated, by depositing in the United States mail, first class postage paid, addressed to):

Helen Hoyt, Chairperson Robert Carrigg, Chairman Atomic Safety and Licensing Board of Selectmen Board Panel Town Office U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Atlantic Avenue Commission North Hampton, NH 03862 East West Towers Building 4350 East West Highway Bethesda, MD 20814

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e Dr..Emmeth A. Luebke Diane Curran, Esquire Atomic Safety and Licensing Harmon & Weiss Board Panel 2001 S Street, N.W.

U.S.. Nuclear Regulatory Suite 430 Commission Washington, DC 20009 i East West Towers Building 4350 East West Highway Bethesda, MD 20814 Dr. Jerry Harbour Stephen E. Merrill Atomic Safety and Licensing Attorney General Board Panel George Dana Bisbee U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Assistant Attorney General Commission Office of the Attorney General

't East West Towers Building 25 Capitol Street 4350 East West Highway Concord, NH 03301-6397 Bethesda, MD 20814

  • Atomic Safety and Licensing Sherwin E. Turk, Esquire Board Panel Office of.the Executive Legal l- --U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Director i Commission U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Washington, DC 20555 Tenth Floor 7735 Old Georgetown Road Bethesda, MD 20814
  • Atomic Safety and Licensing Robert A. Backus, Esquire

. Appeal Board Panel 116 Lowell Street U.S. Nuclear Regulatory P.O. Box 516 Commission Manchester, NH 03105 Washington, DC 20555 4

Philip Ahrens, Esquire Mr. J.P. Nadeau Assistant Attorney General Selectmen's Office Department of the Attorney 10 Central Road General Rye, NH 03870 Augusta, ME 04333 i Paul McEachern, Esquire Carol S. Sneider, Esquire Matthew T. Brock, Esquire Assistant Attorney General Shaines & McEachern Department of the Attorney General 25 Maplewood Avenue One Ashburton Place, 19th Floor

P.O. Box 360 Boston, MA 02108 Portsmouth, NH 03801
Mrs. Sandra Gavutis Mr. Calvin A. Canney Chairman, Board of Selectmen City Manager RED 1 - Box 1154 City Hall Route 107 126 Daniel Street Kensington, NH 03827 Portsmouth, NH 03801 I
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  • Senator Gordon J. Humphrey Mr. Angie Machiros U.S. Senate Chairman of the Washington, DC 20510 Board of Selectmen (Attn: Tom Burack)' Town of Newbury Newbury, MA 01950
  • Senator Gordon J. Humphrey Mr. Peter J. Matthews 1 Pillsbury Street Mayor Concord, NH 03301 City Hall (Attn: Herb Boynton) Newburyport, MA 01950 Mr. Thomas F. Powers, III Mr. William S. Lord Town Manager Board of Selectmen Town of Exeter Town Hall - Friend Street 10 Front Street Amesbury, MA 01913 Exeter, NH 03833 H. Joseph Flynn, Esquire Brentwood Board of Selectmen Office of General Counsel RFD Dalton Road Federal Emergency Management Brentwood, NH 03833 Agency 500 C Street, S.W.

Washington, DC 20472 Gary W. Holmes, Esquire Richard A. Hampe, Esquire Holmes & Ells Hampe and McNicholas 47 Winnacunnet Road 35 Pleasant Street Hampton, NH 03841 Concord, NH 03301 Mr. Ed Thomas FEMA, Region I 442 John W. McCormack Post Office and Court House Post Office Square Boston, MA 02109

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