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charting is expected in January 2020. Environmental review has been done and CI requirements have been met. Chicago Center - We have mature T-Route packages that were completed in October 2018 to mitigate several navaids being lost because of VORMON as well as route structure mitigations to support AirVenture (Oshkosh). Environmental process was too large to complete in time for 2020 AirVenture. Both IKK and MKG decoms have slipped to later in 2020 and will not impact the 2020 AirVenture. This is a large T-Route project and we are working with environmental to move this project on to environmental review and community engagement planning and execution. Kansas City Center - We have mature T-Route packages that were completed in November 2018 to mitigate a number of navaids being lost in ZKC because of VORMON. Environmental is finishing their first review and discussions about possible routing changes will be added to the MCI VORMON meetings in two weeks at ZKC. This is also a relatively large T-Route project and we are working with environmental to move this project on for final environmental review and community engagement planning and execution. There are a number of pressures on the production pipeline and the many FAA Orders that mandate how instrument flight procedure work is approved, completed, published, and implemented. NATCA has been working (for the better part of two years) with the Operational Support Groups (OSG), PBN Program Office, Aeronautical Information Services (AIS), and Flight Standards (AFS) on a singular Instrument Flight Procedure process that could bring all procedure development into one consistent process and move forward in supporting national level priorities and strategies. We are currently reaching out to the remaining Central Service Area Centers for meeting dates for the remainder of 2019 and early 2020 to mitigate the many losses from VORMON. VORMON mitigations remain a priority for us and scheduling now helps us keep these projects from being overrun by other competing PBN requests. The immediate goal for the next six months is to have packages submitted for each Center that covers all VORMON impacts anticipated through Phase I of VORMON (FY2021). Eastern PBN, NEC Airspace and Procedures and National Procedures Assessment (NPA) Update by Bill Wise Support and Structure - The eastern management Co-lead has been part-time for well over a year as he was promoted to Airspace Redesign Manager (ARD), and then to North Team Operational Support Group Manager. On Monday, Sept. 30, the Agency announced his replacement on a two-year detail. Tetra Tech support had to be restructured over the past six months. We have two sets of co-leads in Eastern, and the Tetra Tech specialists were being assigned by project, so we have multiple scheduling problems and are still working through "hand-off" issues