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for ASEPS. It is NATCA's recommendation that if the Agency does not invest in ASEPS, t hen the ADS - C portion of Oceanic Reduced Separation should continue to be funded and supported along with all requirements to pursue the reduced standar d. Two of these requirement s important to NATCA are Oceanic Reduced Separation WX Deviations and Enhance d ATOP Trial Probe. NATCA has been involved in discussions on what other ways the NAS can utilize the capabilities of space - b ased ADS - B if there is no investment in ASEPS. NATCA's s ite l eads have spent significant time on multiple occasions ranking items proposed in Work Package 1 for ATOP. Because of uncertain funding, the site l eads are brought back to the table to reevaluate the enhancements and functionalities that are needed/desired for the oceanic o peration. Surveillance Probe is an important issue f or the ZAN operation. The Agency held several meetings discussing how to build the functionality for ZAN. Once NATCA entered the conversation , the functionality was clear in one meeting. ZAN s ite lead is now entrenched and will ensure that ZAN gets an effe ctive product. Another Item in WP1 will include utilizing SWIM data to accurately display SIGMETS and Volcanic activity. ATOP has never had a viable OCP. The s ite l eads are continuing to discuss and submit inputs for OCP's from d ual c hannel f ailures to c atastrophic geological events. NATCA has stated their position that a viable solution would take a dedicated work group. This is the first year NATCA and the Agency has had a national a greement for ATOP. The s ite l eads are doing an amazing job. Thank you to Mark Crabtree, John Fox, and Donald W hite for all the hard work and long hours AIR TRAFFIC REQUIREMENTS (AJV - 7) James Keith (D10) is NATCA's Article 114 Repres entative to the AJV - 7 Office. His update for this report is below : June 2018 The ADS - B BSFS Radar Remo val FID SRMD - Is under review. Eric La bardini and I have reviewed the document w ith only a few comments. Once the document is completed I will for ward to NATCA for our records. In short, the document states that any removal of a surveillance source would require a local SRM to determine no degradation of ATC services. E - IDS This is a program to replace RIDS and A - SID S and have one system for all. Amanda Richardson is our 114 rep and her and I me t last week to have a discussion on requireme nt s f or a wake timer in the system. We brought in Rich Smith from N90 to the conversation and he was able to provide us the documents necessary that did show written requirements in N - IDS. Thank you to our brother at N90. Weather on the Glass AJV - 7 has completed m ost of its work on this issue. The final draft problem statement does indicate a need for more weather sources to clo se the gap in some facilities. AJV - 7 will be looking at the issue again to address long term wx source to move away from ASR bei ng the primary source.