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We obtained a lot of good feedback from them and obtained contact information from each officia l in attendance as to which city officials or government entity should be briefed as we move forward. Mark Phipps (FAA Co - Lead) and I accompanied a group from the ZDV Metroplex Team to Salt Lake ARTCC (ZLC) to begin negotiations on the new STARs that were designed in the Northeast corner at ZDV. There was a drastic change as to how ZLC will deliver arrivals to ZDV and we felt it was necessar y to begin that outreach early. Overall that meeting went well but may require a follow - up meeting at some point to fi nalize agreements. o Mark Phipps (FAA Co - Lead) and I spent a few days this month working w ith United Airlines in Houston. We were able to begin SIM work on our proposed SID designs and also were able to run a couple of th e STARs in the B738 simulator. All of our procedures that were tested worked and most showed improvemen ts to their current procedures. A few level offs were discovered on the STARs and that information will be taken back to the team. Mark and I plan to return to Houston as soon as United ca n schedule more SIM time to continue this work. o One issue was brought to our attention this month from Denver ARTCC (ZDV) TMU. They have recently replaced their SMEs on our project and concerns over the agreed "zipper feed " from ZDV to D01 have come up. We continue to work this issue and a meeting with the D&I Leads, ZDV POCs, and SMEs is sche duled to take place in January. This could potentially be a very big issue if the facility can't come to an agreement. I will brief this issue in more detail next mo nth after our scheduled meeting so that I can better represent the outstanding issues. o This updated represents the work and status of the Denver Metroplex D&I for the month of December 2015. o Submitted by Chris Thomas Article 48 Co - Lead Denver D&I ยท Charlotte Metroplex o The Charlotte Metroplex Project continues to work post - implementation issues and prepare for the 2016 implementations. The team worked at Atlanta Center, Eastern Service Center (ESC), and home facilities and via Go - to - Meeting. Decem ber was a relatively slow month as several members of the team were on vacation late in the month to avoid losing leave. o We spent time with the Atlanta Center Traffic Management Unit (TMU) and Human Solutions Inc. (HSI) preparing them for the 2016 change s. TMU had felt it was slow to get information for our first implementation so we decided to work directly with them thus eliminating confusion. HSI and TMU were pleased with the level of detail provided. o Environmental issues continue to be a hot item an d we met with personnel from the ESC to provide detailed information on changes made during post - implementation and minor changes, based on lessons learned, to the future procedures. The team produced documents outlining all changes and we will work with o ur environmental specialist as issues arise. o The team worked several issues with CLT, ZTL and ZDC. The CLT FACREP requested to meet with us about concerns on the