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o ZOA – Mr. Barrett reported last month that there was a waiver request from ZOA to work a schedule not in compliance with the 7210.3 BWS rules (Alternate Means of Compliance (AMOC)). He received word through Ja son that this request was denied by Tim Arel's office, but when Mr. Barrett coordinated with ZOA, they had no idea. Jeff Richards (NATCA Fatigue Lead) was unaware of this as well. We will be coordinating to ensure that both Safety and Air Traffic are aware that the compliant schedules are worse from a fatigue scoring perspective than those that ZOA requested. o Compliance reports continue to be massaged in order to monitor fatigue work rules contained in the 7210.3. These reports will allow for identification of facilities where the fatigue work rules may be misunderstood and/or inappropriately applied. In the last go around we found that L30 (Las Vegas TRACON) was violating the 0530L start time before a mid on a regular basis. We are working on finding out wh at the issue is. o Work continues on a fatigue alertness application. Our issue is coordinating with the DoD on ownership rights and use of previously written code. This is actually held up in legal. We still are hopeful for a release at CFS. o PFS content for January centered on how alcohol negatively affects sleep. o Dr. Wesensten is working on analyzing the modeling work that was done in Oct . 2013. When the work was done by Dr. Hursh the methodology and process was not memorialized in any significant way. She will have a solid baseline list of assumption for the team and FSSC to use going forward so that all further fatigue modeling will be precise and consistent with past modeling. o Further field fatigue studies have been written up and submitted for prioritiza tion with other fatigue and human factors work to be performed over the remainder of the fiscal year. We should know what will be funded soon. o We have been working with ICAO for months now on a new SARP for ANSPs that will stand up a FRMS. There is an ICAO conference in April that Mr. Richards and Mr. Barrett will be attending. Mr. Barrett believes the SARP should be done by then as it is currently in the final editing stages. o Mr. Barrett has been coordinating with Tom Adcock (NATCA National Training Lead) on revamping the Fatigue module that is taught at the Academy. Currently it is a 2 - h our lesson that is "death by ppt." We may want to change this to a Human Performance module. This conversation included Garth and centered on the delivery of a Foundations of Professionalism component at the Academy. With the HPT office now including HF, Fatigue, and H&W , Mr. Barrett feels his office has a larger content role to play. Nothing has been decided and work is ongoing. o Mr. Barrett has coordinated with a group that developed a personal fatigue management app. He was introduced through Mel Davis (former NATCA NextGen Representative). The FSSC will receive a briefing on this in February. The software is somewhat expensive and would be a game changer for personal fatig ue management , as it would require a controller to perform a psychomotor vigilance test (PVT) to assess the individual ' s alertness prior to allowing them to sign onto a position. The