The pattern trigger described is based on the existing trigger from the Whipple 10m telescope. The goal of lowering the threshold by about a factor of 2 at constant trigger rate is clearly well motivated. The system proposed does and will work. The electronic implementation in CAMAC modules with a specialized ECL signal splitter isn't really consistent with the 9U VME boards being developed everywhere else in the system. The committee has some concern that this system might become a long term problem in terms of maintenance and flexibility. Perhaps you should consider going with the proposed design for the first telescope and upgrade, soon, to a 9U VME solution based on large logic arrays. A new design with 3 or 4 modern FPGAs on a single board should be able to perform that same task as a high powered CAMAC crate full of the system as presently designed.