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sites with either a full G4 system or a G4 Elite system. o 804 Activity. The Section 804 Workgroup has briefed Senior Leadership (President Rinaldi, F AA Administrator and PASS President Mike Perrone) on our recommendations for the CLE and AZO projects. Next week we will be traveling to the sites to deliver those recommendations and also meeting with the Aviati on Subcommittee to brief them. Once those br iefings are completed, the recommendations will be entered into the Federal Register for 45 days, then there is a 60 - day period in which the Agency will respond to p ublic comments and finally a 30 - working day window in which Congress must pass a joint reso lution to d isapprove the recommendations. If they fail to pass that the recomme ndations shall be implemented. § Next in 804. Section 804 also has Springfield, IL, and Peoria, IL currently being analyzed along with Bakersfield, CA , and Charleston, SC. Those facilities are currently in Step 2 of our 4 - step process. We are also working on next years activities which will be finalize d in the last week of January. · STARS/TAMR Segment 1 Lead Doug Peterson - D10 o Lesson's learned site visits. We've have found this "Pay if forward" approach to be extremely helpful and successful. We bring in SMEs from previous sites and talk about the things we've done righ t and things we've done wrong. Two on site visits this month at N90 and PCT. We covered site - specific issu es including unique security concerns at PCT and additional training scenario development support at N90. The outlook is positive at both these and the other two remaining segment 1 sites. o SCT Tracking issue s possible fall back to CARTS. Struggles contin ue to provide the controllers at SCT wi th an acceptable presentation. The factors at SCT are unique and different than anywhere else. Two new software builds were delivered, R3b and R3aD4. Both were successful. The R3a software line is specifically dedicat ed to improvements needed at SCT for their unique fused tracking issues not encountered at any other of the 50+ sites using STARS. While R3aD4 successfully delivered improvements to tracking performance and we estimate an 80+% overall improvement in tracki ng anomalies since STARS IOC in July, there remain enough examples of poor performance that SCT is requesting to temporarily transition back to CARTS while remaining STARS software issues are resolved. This will be a difficult transition with significant i mpact to controllers and other users. The plan is being carefully prepared and reviewed while exhaustive restorative efforts are ongoing in STARS software and adaptation. · STARS/TAMR Segment 2 Lead Scott Robillard - K90 o Upcoming Deployment Schedule. Segment 2 continues to progress through an extremely aggressive waterfall without delay or failure. Our latest success was seen at GSO in mid December and we prepare for further success at TYS in early January, FAR in February and C HA, GPT and ACY in March 2016. 2016 and 2017 will be the largest proliferation of automation systems that the FAA has ever undertaken. Some 70 sites will be deplo yed during the next two