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Affidavit of Gj Catapano (Tssh 6).* Statement of Prof Qualifications Encl
ML20205M753
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Site: Seabrook  NextEra Energy icon.png
Issue date: 03/25/1987
From: Catapano G
ALLCOMM, INC., PUBLIC SERVICE CO. OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
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Dated: March'25, 1987 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION before the ATOMIC SAFETY AND LICENSING BOARD

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

) Off-site Emergency (Seabrook Station, Units 1 and 2) ) Planning Issues

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AFFIDAVIT OF GARY J. CATAPANO (TOSH 6)

I, Gary J. Catapano, being on oath, hereby depose and say as follows:

1. I am the President of Allcomm, Inc. which is contracted by 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 my professional background and qualifi' cations is attached hereto and marked "A".
2. The proposed South Hampton EOC is the new fire station. This facility has adequate space to accommodate 8704020484 B70325- I PDR ADOCK 05000443 O PDR

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the necessary communications equipment and personnel to carry out RERP responsibilities.

3. A 15 KW generator has been purchased for TOSH.

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( v Gary J( Catapano STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE MERRIMACK, ss. March 28, 1987 The above-subscribed Gary J. Catapano appeared before me 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.

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My Commission Expires:

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Professional Qualifications i of Gary J. Catapano President, A11conm Inc.

My name is Gary J. Catapano anc my business address is A11Comm Inc.,

Rt. 32, 381 Old Homestead Highway, North Swanzey, NH 03431. I am the Presi-dent of A11Comm Inc., a company specializing in design of emergency communi-cations systems founded by me in July of 1984.

I am certified by the National Association of Radio and Telecommunica-tions Engineers (NARTE) as Communications Engineer with special skill endorse-ments in three areas: Land Mobile Systems, Land Mobile Interference and Analysis and Suppression, and Inside Plant Telephone Engineering. I am also a senior rnember of NARTE.

I hold a " Lifetime" FCC General Class Radiotelephone Engineering license and I am certified as an R.F. Engineering Technician by the National Associa-tion of Business and Educational Radio (NABER). I am also a member of NABERS Professional Mobile Radio Service Section.

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 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 deve-loped engineering programs to aid in the prediction and elimination of the harmful interference enused by undesired radio transmissions.

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Since July of 1985 my company has been employed by New Hampshire 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 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 pubite safety officials to review the recommendations. Phase 3 involved the installation test and debug of all of the equipment. Phase 4 will involve further refinement of these systems, documentation and training.

Prior to my beginning this project my firm assisted Vermont Yankee in the relocation of their Emergency Operations Facility to its new location.

My responsibility was for the design and installation of the radio communica-tions systems for this facility and to minimize and eliminate any inte'rference that resulted from the co-location of communications facilities. We also performed this same function for Yankee Atomic Electric Company's emergency operations facility for the Rowe, MA Nuclear Power Plant. As part of this current project I have assisted the utility and the State of New Hamps, hire with design and installation of the communications networks for the emergency operations facility and the State's Incident Field Office. We also provided the same assistance to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

Prior to my founding A11Comm Inc. I was employed as the General Manager l l

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of HEW Communicatins, 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 back-bone of the public notification system and emergency communications networks for 34 municipalities and 3 state civil defense agencies involved with the Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant and Yankee Atomic Electric 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 exist-ing 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. hours, 365 days a year.

My firm currently has the responsibility for the surveillance and main-tenance programs for these systems. Since early,1982 they have been in' opera-tion functioning with a very high percentage of operability (over 99%).

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I have also participated in six full scale federally witnessed emergency exercises and many numerous full scale drills providing communications support (troubleshooting, diagnosis and emergency repair) to the utilities and state agencies. My firm currently provides these emergency communications support services to three nuclear power facilities in New England.

Prior to the Seabrook project, while at A11Comm and HEW, I had 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 in-stalled many types of electronic communications systems. This work 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 Operation Company (NYNEX). I currently hold tech-nical 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 spanned portions of three states and encompassed three counties and included 52 muni -

cipalities.

All of my prior employment dating back to 1965 include positions of

. 1 increasing responsibility in the electronics field. The study of electronic communications has been a lifelong pursuit for me dating back to early child-hood.

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