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signatures. It is estimated to be published in November with the effective date shortly after. · REQUIREMENTS: o Significant progress was made across all ARTCCs to complete pr ep work in advance of September/ October Tech Center meetings. o All ARTCCs have complet ed pre - work for their respective centers and are at varying degrees of completion for coordinat ing across neighboring centers. The TOCO's tech ops specialist has created a Technical Requirements Worksheet t hat has gone out to all ARTCCs. o Field tech o ps will meet with the OCP field team s to complete these worksheets. o When completed, everyone will know exactly what communications (FTI primary and backup line numbers, VSCS radio interface cards available, etc.) they have available to support an affe cted facility in order to write their requirements for Operational Contingency Plans (OCPs) . · REVIEW & COMPLIANCE: o The Review and Compliance IPT worked with the Central Service Center Operations Support Group to develop a job aid to use in develo pment and review of facility contingency plans after JO 1900.47E is effective. o Review and Compliance IPT members are participating in the TOCO meetings at the William J. Hughes Technical Center in support of development of airspace divestiture plans f or ARTCCs. · TRAINING: o The Quality Control Group POC's from Eastern, Western, and Central have committed to conducting an audit for deliverables D022 - Faci lity Readiness for Unplanned Transition to EBUS and D025 - Facitlity Readiness to Execute OCP that will provide the training leads with a report of findings document. · TECH CENTER MEETINGS: o The TOCO will be at the WJHTC October 19 - 23 to complete m eetings with the western CONUS ARTCCs in developing divestiture agreements. UNMANNED AIRCRAFT SYSTEMS (UAS): Steve Weidner (ZMP) is the NATCA Article 48 Representative for the UAS work. Jeff Richards (ZAU) is assisting Mr. Weidner due to the workload of this exploding technology. It is estimated there will be one million drones sold for this year's Christmas season. Below is Mr. Weidner's report for the week. · Mr. Weidner traveled to Boise, ID to observe an optionally piloted K - MAX helicopter operation hosted by the Department of Interior. The DOI will be using the K - MAX for wild land firefighting operations. o While in Boise, Mr. Weidner participated in a meeting with the Department of the Interior to discuss the ir UAS operations. o The meeting was hosted by Mark Bathrick, the DOI Director of th e Office of Aviation Services. § The meeting was also attended by Colin Milone, DOI Senior Aviation Training Specialist Office of Aviation Services, Dan Williams, FAA ATO UAS Integration lead, Joe Morra, FAA AFS - 80, and Michelle Duquette, MITRE .