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· Weekly Technical Representative telcon with Jeff Woods, Mel Davi s, James Keith, Jim Davis, Jim Ullmann. · Spent the week working traffic at BOI ATCT · Spent my breaks planning the first Professional Standards class for FY16, tentatively scheduled for December 2 - 4, 2015, location TBD AIR TRAFFIC REQUIREMEN TS (AJV - 7): James Keith (D10) is NATCA's DC Based Article 48 Repre sentative to the AJV - 7 Office. Mr. Keith's summary for the week is below. · Attended weekly meeting with Jeff Woods, Mel Davis, Jim Davis, Andy Marosvari and Jim Ullmann. Topics of d iscussion are the weekly review of several programs and the progression of those programs. · A ttended AJV - 7 managers meeting. · Met with Jeff Woods (PMO Rep), Frank Lias (AJV - 7 Staff), and Eric Owens (TBFM Rep). Topic of discussion was Terminal spacing and sequencing Key site. · The TRACON evolution virtua l session was held for 4 hours. We are half way through the pr ocess and have 3 more sessions. The work group is doing a great job and providing very good feedback. · Attended an Int erval Management (IM) work group meeting to develop operation al scenarios for the con - ops. · Mr. Woods, Mickey Vitti (ATPA Rep) and Mr. Keith had a meeting to discuss ATPA. The meeting opened up some areas of concern on ATPA being used at facilities without training. They will meet with Tom Adcock (NATCA Training) next week to work on this issue. · Met with Tim Furnai (AJV - 72 Staff) and discussed AIMM SIG3. Mr. Keith will be attending weekly meetings to finalize the con - ops. AIRSPACE: Jim Davi s (PCT) is the NATCA National Airspace Lead. Below are reports from Mr. Davis and the various Airspace Team leads for NATCA. · NorCal Metroplex o Participated in the Weekly National Metroplex Telcon (Wed): received information from Program Office and all other Metroplex projects; provided team status update. o Weekly NorCal Team Telcon cancelled due to unavailability of participants (Wed). o Coordinated Oct 15 th Chart Date changes with FAA's Flight Plan Filer contact Sean Bodkin for disseminat ion to the Users. ZOA Management POC / Airspace & Procedures Manager Jeff Hubert briefed the information to the Flight Plan Filers during the monthly telcon (Wed). o Oct 15 th Chart Date changes and facility briefings on schedule. Limited support team wil l be on hand at ZOA and NCT to provide any assistanc e with the procedure up - levels. BDEGA2 (SFO) will remove the 28R transition; OAKES2 / BANND1 (OAK) splits the OAKES arrival from the east into separate West and Southeast plan routes; EMZOH2 and WNDSR2 (O AK) both modify multiple fixes and restrictions. o Outstanding: SoCal and NorCal Metroplex Teams still need to meet