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· Tom Zarick (ZDV), National Interval Management Rep o RTCA Special Committee 186, Working Group 4 Meeting was held this week. A majority of the week's discussions included the benefits, feasibility, and complexity of several Advanced IM applicat ions. These applications include Dependent Staggered Arrival (DSA), Paired Approach, Dependent Converging and Crossing Runway Operations (DCCR), and Pair - Wise Trajectory Management (PTM). Also discussed the operational possibilities for A - IM in a voice o nly environment. o The ZDV GIM - S Adaptation visit still scheduled the week of Nov. 2nd at the Tech Center. TEMPORARY OPERATIONAL CONTINGENCY OFFICE (TOCO): Tammy Norman (ZTL) is the TOCO Article 48 Representative. This is a one year detail at the East ern Service Center to work on this project. Ms. Norman's report for this week is below. · 1900.47E: The Air Traffic Control Operational Contingency Plan is back from SRM and will now go out for signatures. o Tech Center Meetings have been compl eted and the TOCO is collecting data and divestment plans from the POFMs on a KSN website. These plans will not be implemented into the Operational Contingency Plans (OCPs) until the .47E becomes effective in December. One issue with this is that some fa cilities feel they do not know the expected requirements of the .47E until they have access to it, understandably. The facilities will be given sufficient time to add divestment procedures to their OCPs. o The TOCO's Survey is slowly coming in from the west participants of the October meetings. There remains an inconsistency of expectations with several facilities. Most are uncertain of the role of the Command Center during an ATC Zero event. Most facilities can meet the administrator's goals with thei r current infrastructure, but others need additional requirements to support an affected facility's outage when supporting divestment plans. o The Technical Worksheets are being collected by the TOCO's Tech Ops specialist, Jimmy Black and Assistant Proje ct Manager, Deborah Brady. Each ARTCC's contingency team will work with tech ops to tell them their requirement needs from neighboring infrastructure to support an outage. Tech Ops will tell them what is available. This worksheet will be shared with su rrounding facilities, and everyone will know what is available for support. Because of future builds coming, tech ops have been asked to keep their requirements realistic: Do they have spares… Can they substitute… · Upcoming Travel: The TOCO wil l be scheduling a visit to the Command Center to meet with management concerning their role and expectations during ATC Zero events. Recently, numerous FAA and Industry representatives met at the Command Center to discuss the recent ZDC ERAM outage. Ind ustry reps stated they would like to see improvement in both contingency and continuity of service for future events. The Industry stated its need to have realistic return to service estimates with 30 minute rolling updates. They also wanted each ARTCC t o establish individualized tower -