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o Participated in weekly Metroplex Leads telcon o Upcoming Activities: § Las Vegas Study Team Analysis – September 29 - October 23, 2015 § Las Vegas Study Team Final Facility Outreach Meeting – October 29, 2015 § Las Vegas Study Team Final Industry Outreach Meeting – Nov 5, 2015 § Las Vegas Study Team Documentation Developm ent – November 3 - 19, 2015 § NATCA Art. 48 Tech Rep Meeting – New Orleans – November 17 - 19, 2015 § Las Vegas Study Team Report Due – November 20, 2015 o Submitted by Metroplex Study Team Art. 48 Ed Hulsey · National Design and Implementation Rep o Participated on an environmental telcon with the DC co - leads, EOSG environmental specialist, headquarters legal and headquarters environmental manager. The issue is when a noise model was run on amended procedures, the model came up with potential repor table noise issues. The model that headquarters uses is different than the NEARS model that was used by the contractor during the project and the headquarters' model software has not been QC'd. This of course is ridiculous, and we came up with a plan to im plement on 10/15/2015. o Participated on weekly Metroplex staff telcon. Discussion revolved around EA and where we heading with our projects (there has not been a decision on this), potential use of ELSO on the Florida project, that regional administrato rs and DO's want more information on Metroplex projects, Phoenix project, and how the Phoenix Hitl sc r ub was going, North Texas closeout letter. o Participated on the weekly OSG telcon, we discussed issues with the PBN dash board and what we are going to do to correct the issues (training and facilitated meeting in November), Data C om m putting requests into the IFP gateway, leads meeting in January. o Attended a PBN dashboard meeting with Jim Davis (National Airspace Rep), Dennis Kelly (National PBN Rep ), Ed Hulsey (National Study Team Rep), Robert Novia (PBN Lead) and Karen Bohannon (Manager). It was agreed that out OSG co - leads and Dennis Kelly will be trained on the dashboard and that a facilitated meeting would take place to make the dashboard more u ser friendly and to address what information is needed for our team members in the field to do their jobs. o Participated on the weekly Metroplex telcon. o Attended a meeting with Headquarters environmental staff, Headquarters legal, Metroplex program office, AJV - 14 staff, Jim Davis and Ed Hulsey. The reason for the meeting is to figure a way forward with out reach meetings. It appears upper management has an idea how they want to handle and the EA people have a different Idea from them and legal has a different idea as well. The agency does NOT know which way to go, the stovepipes in the agency are alive and well, and because of it the teams in the field (especially