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held about holding future design meetings for Curved Departures at SNA & BUR. These designs would not be part of the SoCal project. o The Core Team continues to reply to Air Traffic specific comments for the EA. The team al ong with Ryan Weller and AWP Legal have been reviewing and answering environmental comments to the EA. Approximately 50% of the 4,000 comments re ceived have been responded to. o The Core team and Glen Martin briefed representatives from Congresswoman Bass, D istrict 37, Culver City representatives, Councilman Bonin representatives and Senator Holly Mitchell. They still believe flight paths have changed over the districts. An in depth legacy noise analysis from October and December for 2013, 2014 and 2015 was p rovid ed along with a project update. o The Core team and Glen Martin briefed representatives from Congresswoman Napolitano, District 32, Congresswoman Norma Torres, District 35, Congresswoman Judy Chu, District 27, along with representatives for the cities o f La Puente, Monterey Park, Rosemead, Alhambra and El Monte. We provided them with a Metroplex 101 briefing, status of the project and list of procedures that overfly the district. We e xplained tha t the procedures that were of concern are only used during East Operations at LAX whi ch is less than 5% of the time. o Provided a short notice "white paper" on the SoCal project for FAA Headquarters VP Tim Arel and his visit to SCT and LAX Tower. o Preparing a briefing with the Regional Administrator on the status and way forward for the SoCal project to the Director of LAWA and AWP Senior Leadership. o The ZLA and SCT POCs have been working on revising the Procedure Publication list. o A presentation is being prepared for the next step in coordination with SENEAM, our par tners in Mexico. o Submitted by Jose Gonzalez Article 48 Rep, SoCal Metroplex . • Eastern Service Area (ESA) PBN Report o The following ESA projects are with AJV - 5 for development and are on track for publication. o The BOS STARs are scheduled for Flight Check and will publish on May 26 2016. We will travel to ZBW/A90 the week of April 18 for training, review automation and begin planning for implementation in May. o The BVT RNP RWY33 and SDF STARs are scheduled to publish July 21, 2016. o SDF - The SDF project was the re sult of a National CAR (Corrective Action Report) on conflicting altitude constraint on procedures. We resolved the CAR but due to conflicting agendas between UPS and SWA on the industry side and ZID, SDF and LEX on the FAA side our solution was a very lim ited design. UPS, SDF, ZID and the Service Center are continuing to look at possible airspace changes to resolve some of these issues and intend to request changes to all of their procedures at a later date. o RDU - ESA Co - leads have put the RDU project on hol d for the next several months. There are two significant issues that drove this decision. The first is the request to amend the RNP approaches. The request came from AAL but the Lead Carrier is SWA. They cannot agree on any of the six designs we have propo sed. The second issue was the confliction with