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priority. NEXTGEN: Melvin Davis (SCT) represents the union as the N ational NextGen Representative. Mr. Davis forwarded the information below for this week's report. · The primary activities for NextGen this week w ere to participate in the Mitre Aviation Advisory Committee meeting and remote services activities. · The Mitre Advisory Committee is an opportunity for the union to participate in the highest levels of oversight for the primary Federally Funded Rese arch and Dev elopment (FFRDC) organization. During these twice - annual meetings , the Mitre Board of Trustees is briefed on progress and accomplishments for the preceding period and the Board of Trustees is able to endorse redirect potential areas of opportun ity. · The remote services for non - towered airports activities con tinue to mature albeit slowly. o The Leesburg effort is headed towards an SRMD activity early next year and there are lots of small meetings lea ding up to the full SRM panel. o The Colorado effort is still in the formative stage, having only selected a sit e so far (Ft. Collins Airport). The next step will be for the State of Colorado to select a technology vendor with which to establish a Public/Private Partnership and cost/risk sharing agreements. RNAV and PERFORMANCE BASED NAVIGATION (PBN) CRITERIA: Dennis Kelly (PHL) is NATCA's Article 48 Representative working on the criteri a for RNAV and PBN initiatives. Mr. Kelly's report is below. · DataComm – 3 airports have been using DCL in 2015 (SLC, IAH and HOU), with anoth er 69 to implement during 2016. However a problem has surfaced. S56 is the key site for DataComm and is using the system operat ionally for departing aircraft. Every day routes are kicked out of the s ystem by DataComm because they are non - compliant with standards and pilots have to call clearance delivery for a verbal clearance – PDC does not function on non - DataComm compliant routes. This is a significant workload for both the pilot and clearance del ivery. o Therefore, they are making requested changes that will bring those affected routes into compliance and will allow f ull functionality of Data Comm. Th is, in addition with other Data Comm requests, resulted in the amendment of 12 procedures that was approved but it was discovered that there were 17 more nee ded and possibly 26 after that. They are trying to reassess to make sure this is something that gets out of control and overburden an already full pipeline. · NSPP – Upcoming 12/10 proced ures to be published for Non - Metroplex: SIDs/STARs/RNP: Upcoming 12/10 procedures to be published for Non - Metroplex: CVG 9 RNAV SIDs (top altitude), PWM 2 RNAV SIDs (top altitude) and 2 RNAV STARs, RIC 1 RNAV SID, ROA 3 RNAV SID (9 top altitude), CRW 1 RNP , YTSJ 4 RNAV SIDs, ABQ 2 RNPs, AUS 1 RNAV STAR, DFW 1 RNAV SID, SAT 3 RNAV SIDs (top altitude), AFA 3 RNAV STARs and 3 RNAV SIDs, BOI 7 RNAV STARs, BZN 2 RNAV SIDs and RNO 3 RNAV SIDs (top altitude). · Pilot Controller Procedures and Systems Integra tion Group (PCPSI) –