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Program Manager Josh Gustin and the NATCA National D&I and Study Team Leads, Mark McKelligan and Edwardo Hulsey. o Finally, we held a t elcon with the Columbus Airport Authority and discussed thei r invo lvement in design work at KCMH. We are incorporating their concepts with the notional design work already do ne with the workgroup at KCMH. Furth er meetings are being planned. Meetings and invites for KAUS, KSAT, KMSP, KCMH, KILN, KDAY, ZFW, ZHU, ZMP are under development and will be scheduled for May and June. Our final challenge is working the necessary procedure notes through the sy stem for 4 new STARs into KOKC. Bennie Hutto, our new National Criteria Rep , is helping and I'm working with AJV - 14 to organize a t elcon for final approval. o Submitted by CSA PBN NATCA Art. 48, Brent Luna • Metroplex Study Team o The Las Vegas Metroplex Study Team completed all of its conceptual design work by November 6 and then began work on the Study Team Final Report. The S tudy 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 wi th the local airport authority and the Airport District Office to discuss potential noise sensitive areas and environmental hot spots. The final report has been signed by the Director of Airspace Services , with a likely D&I phase kickoff sometime in the Su mmer/Fall 2016 timeframe after a determination of what the airport and community outreach will look like. Also, the tower/TRACON move into their new facility sometime in August. The study team analysis of the conceptual designs has determined roughly $7.5M in potential benefits to the Las Vegas Valley with an $11 cost to the agency. o We continue to assist the Western Service Center (WSC) in understanding what collaboration should look like while conducting their data analysis and feasibility assessment assoc iated with the NorCal Initiative. The NorCal Initiative is a result of Northern California community concerns relayed through their congressional representatives. NATCA is working to ensure the local facilities (ZOA, NCT, SFO) are included in the feasibili ty assessment and validation of the WSC data analysis. The document is currently in draft form and has been through legal review. It will go back out to facilities and others for comment. As the energy surrounding community noise and outreach grows, we sus pect we will continue to repeat these types of efforts around the NAS. o We are also engaged in the rewrite of the 8260.43 order that governs the scheduling and prioritization of procedure development in AJV - 5 (Aeronautical Information Services). After sever al meetings in Ft. Worth, the .43 is continues to be in draft status. We continue to try and insert ourselves into the process so our PBN teams can be involved in the discussion involving procedure development prioritization and scheduling on a consistent basis. No future meeting dates have been scheduled at this time. o Submitted by Metroplex Study Team Lead Art. 48 Ed Hulsey • National Design and implementation