ML052270089

Transcript of Telephone Conversations at NRC Hq During the Millstone Alert Declaration on April 17, 2005 - Event Number 41607. HOO2 Tape 2, Side a, 15:58-21:19

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Issue date:	04/17/2005
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1 S4 1 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 2 NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION 3

4 HEADQUARTERS OPERATIONS CENTER 5

6 TELEPHONE CONVERSATION(S) 7 RE MILLSTONE ALERT DECLARATION 8 OF APRIL 17, 2005 9

10 EVENT NO. 41607 11 HO02, Tape 2 Side A, 15:58 - 21:19 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 Intormatlon In this record was deleted in accordance with the Freedom of Information 23 Act, exemptions-5 4P I-

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i I MR. GOTT: This is NRC Ops Center Support 13 Line.

14 MR. SMITH: Yes, is Mr. Costa there 15 please?

16 MR. GOTT: No, Mr. Costa has left for the 17 day.

18 MR. SMITH: Okay. He called me this 19 morning approximately at 10:45 a.m. concerning a 20 report there at Millstone 3.

21 MR. GOTT: And you are?

22 MR. SMITH: Mike Smith, DOE Operations 23 Center.

24 MR. GOTT: Okay. DOE.

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3 1 going to send a hard copy and we have not received it 2 as yet.

3 MR. GOTT: Okay, and how did he say he was 4 going to send it you?

5 MR. SMITH: He said he was working on it 6 and it should be out shortly. If he sends it email, 7 it would fine.

8 MR. GOTT: A hard copy of our report?

9 MR. SMITH: Yes.

10 MR. GOTT: Okay. What's your email?

11 MR. SMITH: Hold on one second, sir. Let 12 me make sure I get it. You can send -- I'll tell you 13 what you can do. You can send it to DOEHQ.

14 MR. GOTT: Okay.

15 MR. SMITH: EOC@.

16 MR. GOTT: Okay.

17 MR. SMITH: Hold on one second.

18 MR. GOTT: Okay.

19 MR. SMITH: Okay. Sorry for the delay, 20 sir. DOEHQEOC.

21 MR. GOTT: And that's all strung together.

22 MR. SMITH: Right, that's all strung 23 together. @oem.doe.gov.

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4 1 ago because there are things that are still coming in.

2 MR. SMITH: Okay.

3 MR. GOTT: Sir, I will email it to you 4 right now.

5 MR. SMITH: I appreciate it, sir.

6 MR. GOTT: And then it won't go any 7 further than your ops center.

8 MR. SMITH: That's affirmative.

9 MR. GOTT: Okay. Thank you.

10 MR. SMITH: Thank you. Bye.

11 MR. GOTT: Bye.

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II 118 19 MR. GOTT: NRC OPS Center Support Line. -j 20 MR. HOFFNER: This is Bill Hoffner, 21 Directo r of Station Emergency Response at Millstone.

22 Can you page or tie me through to Wayne Lanning.

23 MR. GOTT: Your name again, sir.

24 MR. HOFFNER: Bill Hoffner.

25 MR. GOTT: Okay.

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6 1 MR. HOFFNER: Thank you.

2 MR. GOTT: I'll mic off for a second while 3 I transfer you. Okay?

4 MR. HOFFNER: Understand, I'll just hang 5 on.

6 MR. GOTT: This is Headquarters Operations 7 Officer. I have Bill Hoffner from Millstone who would 8 like to be bridged. Can I put him on?

9 MR. HOFFNER: Bill, what kind of cooldown?

10 Are we still maintaining 60 -- what sustained?

11 MR. GOTT: Sir, I'm going to transfer you 12 to the bridge now.

13 MR. HOFFNER: Understand. Transfer.

14 (Phone call ended.)

15 (Off line.)

16 MR. GOTT: NRC OPS Center this is a 17 recorded line.

18 MR. TRAPP: Yes, this is Jim Trapp and I 19 was wondering if you would be kind enough to patch me 20 to the ENS bridge for the Millstone event.

21 MR. GOTT: I will put you up on the ENS 22 bridge.

23 MR. TRAPP: We ran out of batteries.

24 Thank you.

25 MR. GOTT: Okay.

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7 1 (Phone call ended.)

2 MR. GOTT: NRC OPS Center this is a 3 recorded line.

4 MR. HOFFNER: Ops Support Line, this is 5 Bill Hoffner. Director of Emergency Operations at 6 Millstone Station. Can you connect me to Wayne?

7 MR. GOTT: Let me connect you. When 8 they're ready for you, I'll put you up. Mike, hold on 9 a second.

10 MR. PARTICIPANT: Can you call them and 11 see the status?

12 MR. PARTICIPANT: Yes.

13 MR. GOTT: Sir, I'm transferring you up on 14 the bridge right now.

15 MR. PARTICIPANT: I understand you're 16 transferring me right now.

17 (Phone call ended.)

18 MR. GOTT: NRC OPS Center Support Line.

19 MR. DODSON: Yes, this is Dave Dodson at 20 the Millstone Power Station.

21 MR. GOTT: Yes sir.

22 MR. DODSON: I'm the Station licensing 23 supervisor and I would like to provide an update to 24 our event notification 41607.

25 MR. GOTT: Okay, Mr. Dodson. I'm ready.

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8 1 MR. DODSON: This is an update information 2 previously transmitted at 1330 today, April 17, 2005.

3 MR. GOTT: Okay.

4 MR. DODSON: The previously reported time 5 of the alert declaration should be corrected to read 6 0842.

7 MR. GOTT: 0842.

8 MR. DODSON: Millstone Unit 3 entered Mode 9 4 at approximately 1903 hours0.022 days <br />0.529 hours <br />0.00315 weeks <br />7.240915e-4 months <br /> on April 17, 2005.

10 MR. GOTT: Okay.

11 MR. DODSON: The event at Millstone Unit 12 3 was terminated at 1905 hours0.022 days <br />0.529 hours <br />0.00315 weeks <br />7.248525e-4 months <br />.

13 MR. GOTT: 1905. Okay.

14 MR. DODSON: The cause of the event is 15 under investigation. A recovery plan is being 16 formulated.

17 MR. GOTT: Okay.

18 MR. DODSON: I will fax you a copy of our 19 original notification with that information, 20 supplemented by that information I just read to you.

21 MR. GOTT: Okay.

22 MR. DODSON: And you should have that 23 shortly.

24 MR. GOTT: Now before -- your decay heat 25 removal I ask you about? You guys are --

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9 1 MR. DODSON: I wasn't on that particular 2 conversation.

3 MR. GOTT: You weren't?

4 MR. DODSON: No.

5 MR. GOTT: I thought it was you I was 6 talking to.

7 MR. DODSON: No, I don't believe so.

8 MR. GOTT: I guess we -- heat now.

9 MR. DODSON: My last understanding was 10 that we were still releasing steam to the atmosphere 11 via the steam dumps.

12 MR. GOTT: The steam dumps?

13 MR. DODSON: Yes. That will continue 14 until we get the reactor cooled down. I believe we 15 actually have to depressurize the RCS to about, I'm 16 sorry, cooldown below 300 degrees. At approximately 17 290 degrees we can transition or so, we can transition 18 onto RHR.

19 MR GOTT: Okay.

20 MR . DODSON: And we're a little ways away 21 from that yet.

22 MR GOTT: Okay.

23 MR DODSON: All right.

24 MR . GOTT: And you faxed that up to me.

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10 1 including the cover sheet.

2 MR. GOTT: And the resident knows about 3 this?

4 MR. DODSON: I have not spoken with the 5 resident yes.

6 MR. GOTT: Well I understand --

7 MR. DODSON: I believe he's in the control 8 room though.

9 MR. GOTT: I understand that at 1903 you 10 entered Mode 4 and 1905 you terminated from the alert.

11 MR. DODSON: That's correct.

12 MR. GOTT: And the cause is still under 13 investigation.

14 MR. DODSON: That's correct as well.

15 MR. GOTT: Okay. Thank you, sir.

16 MR. DODSON: And your name is?

17 MR. GOTT: Bill Gott.

18 MR. DODSON: Oh, Bill. Yes, we did talk 19 earlier.

20 MR. GOTT: Okay.

21 MR. DODSON: Thank you very much.

22 MR. GOTT: Thank you.

23 MR. DODSON: So long.

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2 MS. BURTON: May I have Region 1 Public 3 Affairs please? It's Nancy Burton and I'm with the 4 Connecticut Coalition Against Millstone.

5 MR. GOTT: Nancy?

6 MS. BURTON: B-U-R-T-O-N.

7 MR. GOTT: B-U-R-T-O-N and what's your 8 organization again, ma'am?

9 MS. BURTON: It's called Connecticut.

10 MR. GOTT: Okay.

11 MS. BURTON: Coalition.

12 MR. GOTT: Coalition.

13 MS. BURTON: Against Millstone.

14 MR. GOTT: Millstone.

15 MS. BURTON: Yes, and I'm calling because 16 there's a problem at Unit 3.

17 MR. GOTT: Okay. Can I get a telephone 18 number?

19 MS. BURTON: Sure, 203.

20 MR. GOTT: 203.

21 MS. BURTON: 938.

22 MR. GOTT: 938.

23 MS. BURTON: 3 952.

24 MR. GOTT: 52. Okay. Hold on a second, 25 ma'am.

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12 1 MS. BURTON: Thank you.

2 (Discussion off record.)

3 MR. GOTT: We're telling her right now and 4 we're giving her the phone number and she'll give it 5 -- That public affairs person, Diane Screnci.

6 MS. BURTON: Right.

7 MR. GOTT: Will give you a call right 8 away.

9 MS. BURTON: Thank you so much.

10 MR. GOTT: Okay?

11 MS. BURTON: Right oh.

12 MR. GOTT: Yes ma'am. And if she doesn't 13 get back to you give us call back here.

14 MS. BURTON: I surely will but I should 15 hear from her shortly.

16 MR. GOTT: Yes, my partner is telling her 17 your phone number right now.

18 MS. BURTON: Thank you so much.

19 MR. GOTT: Yes ma'am.

20 MS. BURTON: Right. Bye-bye.

21 (Phone call ended.)

22 MR. GOTT: I'm calling him back to tell 23 him I didn't get the fax.

24 MR. PARTICIPANT: Millstone Unit 3 Control 25 Room.

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13 1 MR. GOTT: Hi. This is the NRC OPS Center 2 calling for Mr. Dodson.

3 MR. PARTICIPANT: Mr. Dodson.

4 MR. GOTT: Yes, he just called in with a 5 notification.

6 PARTICIPANT: I don't believe he is in the 7 control room. He may be in the Emergency Operations 8 Facility.

9 MR. GOTT: Okay. What's the number over 10 there?

11 PARTICIPANT: Hang on a second and let me 12 see if I can find the number for them.

13 MR. GOTT: Okay. Thank you.

14 (Discussion in background.)

15 MR. PARTICIPANT: Sir are you there?

16 MR. GOTT: Yes, I'm here.

17 MR. PARTICIPANT: Okay. The number would 18 be (860).

19 MR. GOTT: Okay.

20 MR. PARTICIPANT: 447.

21 MR. GOTT: 447.

22 MR. PARTICIPANT: 1791.

23 MR. GOTT: 1791.

24 MR. PARTICIPANT: That will get you to the 25 switchboard and then it's 6500.

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14 1 MR. GOTT: 6500.

2 MR. PARTICIPANT: That's correct.

3 MR. GOTT: Okay. Do you think Mr. Dodson 4 is over there?

5 MR. PARTICIPANT: I believe he's in the 6 EOF. Yes.

7 MR. GOTT: Okay. Well, if he comes 8 through there.

9 MR. PARTICIPANT: I can have him call you.

10 MR. GOTT: Yes, call me or refax the event 11 notification because it didn't come through.

12 MR. PARTICIPANT: Okay.

13 MR. GOTT: Thank you.

14 MR. PARTICIPANT: Okay.

15 MR. GOTT: Bye.

16 MR. PARTICIPANT: Bye.

17 (Phone call ended.)

18 MR. GOTT: One hour.

19 VOICE MAIL MESSAGE: Hello, you have 20 reached the Dominion Millstone Power Station. Please 21 listen to the following options. If you are calling 22 from a touch tone telephone and know the extension of 23 the person you are calling, you may enter that number 24 now.

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2 MR. GOTT: Hi, Mr. Grogan. This is the 3 NRC Operations Center.

4 MR. GROGAN: Yes.

5 MR. GOTT: I'm trying to get a hold of 6 Dave Dodson. He just made an event report to the NRC.

7 MR. GROGAN: Okay. You're trying to get 8 a hold of Mr. Dave Dodson.

9 MR. GOTT: Yes sir.

10 MR. GROGAN: He is not down here in the 11 Tech Support Center but I can try to get a hold of him 12 to give you a call. Do you have a number because we 13 just terminated?

14 MR. GOTT: Yes, I know and he was faxing 15 me your event notification sheet and it did not come 16 through.

17 MR. GROGAN: Okay. Do you want to hold __

18 and I'll see if he's still in the EOF if he's left 19 yet?

20 MR. GOTT: Okay. Thank you, sir.

21 MR. GROGAN: What is your name? I'm going 22 to have Mr. Dodson call you.

23 MR. GOTT: My name is Bill Gott.

24 MR. GROGAN: Bill Gott.

25 MR. GOTT: Yes.

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16 1 MR. GROGAN: I have him on the other line.

2 I gave him the phone number that came up on my phone 3 which is (301) 816-5102.

4 MR. GOTT: 5-100 would be fine.

5 MR. GROGAN: 5-100?

6 MR. GOTT: Yes sir.

7 MR. GROGAN: Okay. And I'll have him call 8 you while he's trying to fax.

9 MR. GOTT: Okay. Thank you.

10 MR. GROGAN: Yes.

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12 MR. GOTT: NRC OPS Center this is a 13 recorded line.

14 STATION DUTY OFFICER: Yes sir. This is 15 Millstone Unit 3.

16 MR. GOTT: Yes sir.

17 STATION DUTY OFFICER: This is the Station 18 duty' officer. I need to verify that the ERDS system 19 is deactivated.

20 MR. GOTT: Okay. You guys have turned it 21 off.

22 STATION DUTY OFFICER: Yes sir.

23 MR. GOTT: Okay. I'm going to put you on 24 hold and go take a look over here.

25 STATION DUTY OFFICER: Okay.

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17 1 (Phone call ended.)

2 MR. GOTT: NRC OPS Center this is a 3 recorded line.

4 MR. MATTHEWS: Hi, this is David Matthews, 5 the EO for NRR. Did you just page me?

6 MR. GOTT: Yes, Millstone Unit 3 reached 7 Mode 4 at 1903 and terminated their Alert at 1905.

8 MR. MATTHEWS: Thank you very much for the 9 notification.

10 MR. GOTT: Okay sir.

11 MR. MATTHEWS: Thanks. Bye.

12 MR. GOTT: Bye.

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14 MR. GOTT: Sir, are you there?

15 STATION DUTY OFFICER: Yes sir.

16 MR. GOTT: I'm not really get indication 17 here but I'll call up to ERDS people upstairs and tell 18 them to secure connection.

19 STATION DUTY OFFICER: I understand you 20 will check the status of the ERDS. We have 21 deactivated it here and I was making sure that it's --

22 MR. GOTT: Yes, I'll call upstairs and 23 they have a way of hanging it up from the computer 24 room.

25 STATION DUTY OFFICER: Okay.

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18 1 MR. GOTT: Okay?

2 STATION DUTY OFFICER: Yes. Thank you.

3 MR. GOTT: Thank you. Bye.

4 STATION DUTY OFFICER: Bye.

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6 (Phone call being made.)

7 MR. GOTT: Don't we have a person up 8 there?

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10 MR. GOTT: (Leaves message.) Yes, this 11 is the Operations Officer down in the Ops Center. I 12 just want to let you know that the Millstone event is 13 no longer transmitting ERDS data. So you can 14 terminate the Millstone ERDS link. Thank you. Give 15 us a call (301) 816-5100 if you have any questions.

16 Bye.

17 (Hangs up.)

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30 1 MS. DADDONA: Hi, this is Pat Daddona from 2 The Day of New London, Connecticut.

3 MR. GOTT: Yes.

4 MS. DADDONA: I'm interested in talking 5 with someone about the plant shutdown in Waterford 6 today.

7 MR. GOTT: Okay. Can I get your name 8 again?

9 MS. DADDONA: Sure. It's Pat. Last name 10 is D as in dog, A-D-D-O-N-A with The Day which is a 11 newspaper here.

12 MR. GOTT: The Day? Okay.

13 MS. DADDONA: Yes.

14 MR. GOTT: Can I get your phone number?

15 MS. DADDONA: Eight-six-0.

16 MR. GOTT: Eight-six-zero.

17 MS. DADDONA: Seven-0-one.

18 MR. GOTT: Seven-zero-one.

19 MS. DADDONA: Four-three-two-four.

20 MR. GOTT: Four-three-two-four.

21 MS. DADDONA: I usually deal with Neil 22 Sheehan or Diane Screnci but I don't know because it's 23 the weekend who's on.

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31 1 then call there and give them your number and have her 2 give you a call back.

3 MS. DADDONA: Great.

4 MR. GOTT: And if she doesn't get a hold 5 of you, it was Diane Screnci like I said, if she 6 doesn't get a hold of you, give us a call back and 7 we'll try it again.

8 MS. DADDONA: Okay. Thank you.

9 MR. GOTT: Is that okay with you?

10 MS. DADDONA: Well, yes.

11 MR. GOTT: Because she's been getting a 12 couple calls. I'm not sure if you want to call their 13 Incident Response Center and see.

14 MS. DADDONA: No, I need to talk to her, 15 I think, for the questions that I have. /

16 MR. GOTT: Yes, it will be her calling you 17 back.

18 MS. DADDONA: Okay.

19 MR. GOTT: Okay.

20 MS. DADDONA: Thank you.

21 MR. GOTT: Yes ma'am. Bye.

22 MS. DADDONA: Bye.

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10 MR. PARTICIPANT: Department of Homeland 11 Security. This is our secure line DCC speaking. May 12 I help you?

13 MR. GOTT: This is the NRC Operations 14 Officer, Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

15 MR. PARTICIPANT: Right.

16 MR. GOTT: We called you guys earlier 17 regarding an alert that was declared at one of our 18 facilities in Connecticut.

19 MR. PARTICIPANT: Okay. Do you know who 20 you talked to?

21 MR. GOTT: Let me see if I have that log 22 entry here. Doyle.

23 MR. PARTICIPANT: Okay, Mary Ann. Okay. _

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41 1 MR. GOTT: Okay.

2 MR. PARTICIPANT: Okay. Hold a second.

3 SENIOR WATCH OFFICER: Senior Watch 4 Officer speaking. May I help you?

5 MR. GOTT: Yes, sir. My name is Bill 6 Gott. I'm at Nuclear Regulatory Commission. I'm the 7 Operations Officer here.

8 SENIOR WATCH OFFICER: Hi, John Frost.

9 What can I do for you?

10 MR. GOTT: Hi, Mr. Frost. Earlier today, 11 we notified the DHS that one of our facilities in 12 Connecticut had declared an alert.

13 SENIOR WATCH OFFICER: Yes.

14 MR. GOTT: Millstone Unit 3.

15 SENIOR WATCH OFFICER: Yes.

16 MR. GOTT: They've secured from their 17 alert. They've gone back to their normal operating.

18 They're still shut down but they've terminated their 19 alert at 1905 because they cooled down enough to meet 20 the criteria for the condition they were in.

21 SENIOR WATCH OFFICER: Okay.

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42 1 still in the monitoring mode as they continue to cool 2 down their plant all the way to cold shutdown. But 3 they've secured from their alert.

4 SENIOR WATCH OFFICER: Okay, and my 5 understanding is this was a mechanical failure pretty 6 much.

7 MR. GOTT: Yes, a relief valve on their 8 steam system lifted, the transient that caused the 9 reactor to shut down and there were a couple other 10 complications that they're still investigating which 11 is way they're having to cool all the way down to a 12 cold shutdown to complete their investigation.

13 SENIOR WATCH OFFICER: Okay. They're 14 probably going to be.offline for a couple of days 15 then.

16 MR. GOTT: But there appeared to be no 17 radioactive releases or any problems like that.

18 SENIOR WATCH OFFICER: Okay.

19 MR. GOTT: Okay.

20 SENIOR WATCH OFFICER: Very good. I 21 appreciate the update and thanks much.

22 MR. GOTT: Yes sir.

23 SENIOR WATCH OFFICER: Have a good night.

24 MR. GOTT: You too. Bye.

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43 1 TELEPHONE OPERATOR MESSAGE: Hello, you 2 have reached the National Response Center. If this is 3 an emergency or life-threatening situation, hang up 4 and call 911 or local authority. If you are calling 5 to report a oil spoil or chemical release or 6 transportation related incident or suspicious 7 activity, please press one. If you are calling to 8 report a suspected terrorist threat, please press two 9 now. If you are calling from a rotary phone, please 10 stay on the line and you will conn6cted with the 11 National Response Center. Thank you. Just a moment.

12 You have reached the National Resource 13 Center. We are currently assisting other callers.

14 Please standby and the next available person will 15 assist you momentarily.

16 MR. THREATT: National Response Center.

17 MR. GOTT: Hi, National Response Center.

18 This is the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

19 MR. THREATT: Yes sir.

20 MR. GOTT: I'm just calling to -- Earlier 21 we notified you of one of our facilities that had 22 declared an alert.

23 MR. THREATT: Yes sir.

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44 1 secured from their alert as of 1905.

2 MR. THREATT: This is 756011.

3 MR. GOTT: Yes sir.

4 MR. THREATT: All right. I'll pass that 5 down.

6 MR. GOTT: Can I get your name?

7 MR. THREATT: The last name T-H-R-E-A-T-T.

8 MR. GOTT: Okay. Thank you.

9 MR. THREATT: Thank you.

10 MR. GOTT: Bye.

11 MR. THREATT: Bye.

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