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enroute plans using currently established routes for the Command Center to issue during an outage. These are the current OCPs in place, and the Command Center chose not to use them. All of these issues will be addressed. TERMINAL AUTOMATION MODERNIZATION REPLACEMENT (TAMR): Mitch Herrick (MIA) leads NATCA's TAMR Team in accordance with Article 48. Below is Mr. Herrick's report for the week. · The biggest news this week was the Atlanta TRACON (A80) and all asso ciated towers transitioning to STARS ahead of schedule. This is a significant milestone for STARS/TAMR because Atlanta was one of the most technologically complex facilities. STARS/TAMR has now completed 7 of 11 large Common ARTS TRACONS conversion to ST ARS. Leaving only St Louis (T75), Chicago (C90), Potomac (PCT) and New York (N90) which will all be completed prior to July of 2016. · Worked with N90 FacRep Kevin Maney and STARS/TAMR Rep Mike Stone along with NATCA OSF Rep Candy Barr, NATCA SBS Rep Eric Labardini, NATCA Surveillance Engineer Joe Yannone and Segment 1 Lead Doug Peterson to collect all information relative to an N90 transition to Fusion. Having all of the NATCA experts on the subject together in one place made it much easier to un derstand and to make a good decision. · Conducted Section 804 Checkpoint 3 telcons with Kalamazoo (AZO), Grand Rapids (GRR), Muskegon (MKG), Lansing (LAN), Flint (FNT) and Saginaw (MBS) to finalize position validations and staffing estimates for seve ral different realignment scenarios. Also worked with T75 804 Rep Buel Warden on some issues related to position validations and staffing estimates prior to check point 2. · STARS/TAMR Phase 3 Segment 1 update submitted by Doug Peterson - D10 o Atlanta TRACON completed a successful transition to STARS on only their second test run. A large TRACON Common ARTS facility typically schedules at least 4 test runs to try to ensure all operational problems are resolved prior to transitioning to continuou s operations on STARS. The A80 Air Traffic and OSF team was so well prepared and worked so well together along with Tech Ops, that they completed this transition far ahead of schedule. o The segment 1 TAMR team also joined a telcon with N90 concerning th eir transition to ADSB/Fusion and regularly weekly transition telcons with T75, SCT, MSP and PCT. · STARS/TAMR Phase 3 Segment 2 update submitted by Scott Robillard - K90 o The TAMR3SEG2 team is comprised of the Scott Robillard (K90) Lead, Bill Spenc e (BTV) Training Lead, Jim VanZee (GRR), Richard Thomas (GEG), Tim Poer (ABI), Mike Wilson (CAK), Kyle Ness (M98), Ross Costa (RSW) and Chris Falcone (MDT) from Air Traffic and Engineers Joe Yannone, Dan Stefko, Colin Ngai and Frank Stahler from Region X. o The TAMR3 SEG2 NATCA team works with the agency to deploy STARS G4 ELITE systems to replace all ARTS IIE systems, certain STARS G1/2 Legacy systems via tech refresh and Common