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public workshops, Draft EA comments, and elected officials. Each procedure was analyzed by the team to determine whether concerns could be addressed thro ugh minor design modification. The review resulted in recommended changes to four proposed procedures and the development of one new proposed procedure. o The Team has an initial tentative meeting with SENEAM (Mexico) in late May at SCT. Negotiations for additional dates and locations of meet ings are still ongoing. o TBFM HITLS were conducted the week April 4 - 8, 2016. The initial data shows positive results. Negotiations with adjacent facilities will continue and address any outstanding concerns. o The SCT and ZLA team members continue working o n training scenario development, classroom training plan development, LOAs, SOPs, automation, radar map display information, PowerPoints and any additional documentation required for upcoming SRM panels, automation verification of fix pair postings and pre parations of materials to update workforce on project status. o Submitted by Jose Gonzalez , Article 48 Rep, SoCal Metroplex • Cleveland/Detroit Metroplex Design & Implementation o Continued Outreach with Great Lakes Regional Administrator Barry Cooper to finaliz e a look and a plan that several layers in the FAA and DoT want to be presented. The press blitz for the week of April 11 was postponed and expected sometime after June. We completed and forwarded our proposed alternative for the CLE/DTW Metroplex area to the Airline users, along with wind and NAV d atabases. o Numerous tel co n s with teams and CSA members for multiple issues (ie 3 mile, Nov 10 date, MTC airsp ace, TBFM, staff study stuff). Magnetic Variation change is going to happen on Nov 10, 2016 for some of Detroit's approach amendments, this was a surprise because when we started there was no change scheduled. o Report submitted by Don Ossinger CLE/DTW Article 48 D & I liaison • Western PBN and EoR 3/28 – 4/30 o On 3/29, at the request of the Eastern PBN rep, Mr. Hargarten attended a Kick - off meeting for an airspace redesign project at Louisville, KY (SDF). This project is being spearheaded by the Eastern OSG and would es sentially be a "mini - Metroplex." There is not a process for this project but it is clearly bei ng modeled after Metrople x. Early in the meeting a power point was shown listing the members of the team. The lead was an OSG manager, with FAA and NATCA co - leads. All of the SME s listed were management. Mr. Hargarten inquired as to how the NATCA co - leads were selected and why all of the SME's were management. The manager giving the presentation immediately began to back pedal and it is my understanding, the OSG has since started the process of formally requesting r eps from NATCA. Another point of interest with regard to this project, there is no funding for rep travel or BFOT. Mr. Hargarten informed the OSG manager that any time he or someone from his group plans to go into a facility for this project, a NATCA lead should also be present. It seems there is funding for the OSG managers to trave l but not their NATCA co - leads.