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o The NEXTGEN Of fice is currently surveying facilities to find a good location to start conducting the Dual TF EoR Safety Study. Currently, Salt Lake is the number one candidate and collaborative coordination with the facility will be starting likely in April to secur e th e facilities participation. o NorCal Noise Initiative – The week 2/27 was spent at Northern California TRACON for the Congressionally initiated NorCal Noise Initiative. The purpose of this meeting was to go through the initiative point by point with subject matter experts to determine if the suggested courses of action in the initiative are feasible and if any amendments could be made to procedures to alleviate noise concerns with various Bay Area Citizen's Groups. The SME s were provided with analysis prepare d by the Western OSG as it relates to the various concerns and went through a matrix to answer if procedures (IFPs and SOPs) can be changed to appease the citizen groups. Generally, the answer to most questions were that in fact, every request could be acc ommodated but it would result in massive delays, congestion, increases in noise and lost efficiency. Clearly all of the points in the matrix were developed by groups not familiar with the significantly complex operations in the Bay Area. The workgroup did concur that amendments to the SERFR STAR could be possible without impacts to the operation and will investigate options. If changes are made to the SERFR, it would be done under the .41 process. o Procedures worked during this period with co - lead – PAEI RNA V STAR BAR completed. PAED RNAV STAR BAR completed. KLAX ODO RNAV SID. KLAS RNAV STAR. GJT RNAV STAR BAR completed. GJT RNP/STAR meeting coordination. SLC STAR/RNP/SID request coordination. SFO RNP amendment. ASE SID. DEN RNAV SID amendment. o KPAE RNAV STA R final workgroup review completed and pencils down declared. The procedure will be se nt to environmental for review. o Submitted by Phil Hargarten Western PBN and EOR Rep . • Metroplex Study Team Lead o The Las Vegas Metroplex Study Team completed all of its con ceptual design work by November 6 and then began work on the Study Team Final Report. The Study Team Final Report has now been edited by the team and the Metroplex Program Office Leads and has also finished going through the tech writing process. Also, for the first time in the Metroplex study team process, we established direct communication with the local airport authority and the Airport District Office to discuss potential noise sensitive areas and environmental hot spots. The final report has been sign ed by the Director of Airspace Services with a D&I phase startup some time in the s ummer/ f all 2016 timeframe after a determination of what the airport and community outreach will look like. The study team analysis of the conceptual designs has determined r oughly $7.5M in potential be nefits to the Las Vegas Valley. o There continues to be a lot of energy around the issue of community noise. We're currently involved with efforts to address what airport and community outreach looks like for future PBN projects a nd to look into ways we can enhance our processes to improve the outreach to the local communities and increase awareness of PBN projects throughout the NAS. We are STILL in the process of defining the way forward for projects that are currently underway. It appears the Regional