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from the procedure; KBWI has minor changes concerning the CONLE and FIXET RNAV SIDS and coding changes on the TERPZ RNAV SID for runway 28, which will allow Equivalent Lateral Spacing Operations (ELSO) to be used with the COLNE RNAV SID; KRIC ha s the Top Altitude being published in accordance with criteria on the KALLI RNAV SID as well as the COLIN SID being amended to allow for airc raft to depart from any runway. § The team has received and reviewed all the Jeppesen charts for February 4 th publicati on cycle with no errors found. o The team has also been working on the procedural and automation changes for the last DC Metroplex Post Implementation occurring on March 31, 2016, which affects Washington National Airport (KDCA), KIAD, KHEF, KBWI , Leesburg Executive Airport (KJYO), Winchester Regional Airport (KOKV), Eastern West Virginia Regional Airport (KMRB), and Davison Army Airfi eld (KDAA) regarding RNAV SIDS. § The automation changes have been submitted to the ZDC 530 office who will provid e them to ZDC FAST. § The team recently learned about the JUNNR RNAV STAR serving Greenville Spartanburg (KGSP), Greenville Downtown (KGMU), Donaldson Field (KGYH), and Spartanburg Downtown (KSPA) and after reviewing the procedure it was apparent the procedure did not provide the correct criteria allowing aircraft departing the Washington , D . C . area using one of our RNAV SIDS t o join the procedure correctly. § A teleconference was conducted with participates from the Charlotte and DC Metroplex teams, in which a solution was rea ched and ERAM automation will be used until the JANNR RNAV STAR can be amended in the future. o The team is also in the process of closing out the DC Metroplex and have been working on the required documents to present to the Air Traffic Managers and Facil ity Representatives at W ashington ARTCC and PCT TRACON. § Tentatively the close out briefing is scheduled for March 14, 2016 at 10:00 AM provided it meet s the facilities requirements. o Submitted by Bennie Hutto Article 48 Rep, DC Metroplex · Denver Metrop lex Design & Implementation o The Denver Metroplex Team began the month of January with a 75% Milestone Validation Briefing to their industry p artners and community airports. These briefings have been pretty successful thus far and the feedback from the co mmunity air ports has been mostly positive. The team would have like to have more participation and feedback from other industry partners but as of 75% they still only have comments from our Lead carrier, United, and f rom Frontier Airlines. More specificall y, the team has reached out several times to SkyWest Airlines, which serves as Denver's primary Regional Jet provider, but have had little cont act with their representatives. § Also the team hasn't received any response from Southwest Airlines, which is al so another big provider to the Denver