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o The CSA PBN Team traveled to San Antonio for preliminary design efforts with SAT, AU S, ZHU, and Southwest Airlines. A follow up t elcon with the same attendees was held April 20 th to continue K SAT design work as well as make adjustments t o the PINCH STAR serving KAUS. A finalization meeting is planned for May 25 th /26 th . The CSA Co - Leads also plan to meet with our CSA Environmental Specialist and the KSAT Airport Authority on May 24 th to discuss all aspects of the design changes and methods for community involvement. o This month we also welcomed Nathan Lewis as an additional Management Co - Lead. Nathan comes from ZFW where he was previously an Operations Manager and the QC/QG Manager. o On April 7 - 8 , we hosted a preliminary design meeting for several gateway reque sts we have received for KDAL. Attendees included SWA, D10, KDAL, KDFW, and ZFW. Design options were considered to alter the SID structure at KDAL as well as strategies to reduce track miles f lown on the SIDs so that Industry would not h ave to carry unnecessary fuel. KDAL/SWA are the proponents and KDAL desires to have a SID structure that is b i - directional and removes the need to enter an RM message and amended clearance info whenever flows ch ange at KDAL or KDFW. Potential designs are still being considered and the next meeting is planned for June 13 - 14. In the interim, D10 and ZFW are discussing adjustments to the delivery fixes from Terminal to Enroute. KDAL also requests four new RNAV SID p rocedures that are able to provide nightly noise abatement. Please Note: Continued review and support of ERAM ER136427 (Proper ERAM S ID Functionality) is requested. Sabu Varghese, ZFW NATCA Automation Rep , is working and keeping aff ected facilities updated . Currently, it has been placed in a "future" bucket by the NUT (Na tional User Team) because of it s size (cost) and complexity , but we are hoping for attention to it soon. o This month we have had numerous conversations with AJV - 14 at HQ and the VORMON Progr am Leads regarding the d ecommissioning of the BRD VORTAC in ZMP's airspace. This is a heavy non - Radar area and a system of T - Routes is required that will enable controllers to procedurally separate most of the traffic utilizing no n - Radar procedures. We hav e been researching and determining what tools and what structure would prov ide them the greatest benefit. We are hoping to meet with ZMP in May to put designs onto paper. We plan to also meet with the Noise Oversight Committee (NOC) in Minneapolis and disc uss upcoming MSP Post - Implementations designs while we are in town. o We traveled to D . C . during the week of April 11 th to attend our quarterly PBN Co - L ead Meetings, hosted by AJV - 14. During these meetings many FAAO 7100.43 processes were discussed and worke d out. We were also briefed on the usage of the Procedure Tracking Tool (PTT). This piece of software is essential for AJV - 14 tracking but it has numerous shortcomings and is built on a platform that hasn't been supported for several years. It is very cumb ersome and puts an enormous strain o n those tasked with data entry. NATCA continues t o press for a better solution. At this point is it physically impossible to have all projects entered as desired without additional staff support. We were also briefed by the HQ Environmental Office, as well as conversations with PBN