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Met with Atlantic Coast Route Project (ACRP) Co - lead to discuss how to integrate Q - routes and Y - routes from the Florida Metroplex project to ACRP. I attended a Metroplex Leads meeting in Chicago, IL and attended a Florida Metroplex core team - planning meeting. Submitted by Greg Harris, Florida Metroplex NATCA Art 48 rep ATL Metroplex : The Atlanta Metroplex project has completed our 5/26/16 airspace change and is working toward our next implementation of the ATL STARs on 11/15/16. We participated in a meeting regarding EDO on 5/3 in whic h many people from A80, ZTL, ESC and Headquarters were present. It was stressed how safe EDO would be and the efficiencies that could be gained; not only in ATL, but in Dallas and other major metropolitan areas as well. Another EDO meeting was scheduled fo r the week of 6/13 in hopes of having EDO in place by the end of the year. ZID came to ZTL at the beginning of May to discuss the new ATL STARs and the impacts that would have with TBFM. Our TBFM contractors and TMUs from ZTL and ZID participated. The mee ting went well and the adaptations that ZID requested are being worked now. We are also meeting at ZME the week of June 13 th to discuss any issues the new STARs may have for them also. On 5/24 A80, ZTL, ZME and ZID participated in a Dual STAR discussion. There have been dual STARs into ATL from the Northeast and Northwest corners for a number of years, but they have only been treated as offloads. Our plan is to start using these as full time Dual arrivals starting 9/15/16. This will give the facilities 2 m onths to get used to feeding and accepting 6 arrival feeds into ATL before our STAR implementation on 11/15/16. Since our new STAR designs are similar to the old designs, with a few minor track changes and the addition of OPDs this will allow for a smoothe r turn on of the OPDs. Since our Lead Operator (Delta) is concerned about loss of throughput with OPDs into ATL, we plan to begin using OPDs only part time after implementation. It has been discussed for months about using the OPD for only 3 - 5 hours for t he first couple of days and build into a full time usage. This will allow us to maintain a 132 Arrival Rate into ATL while the controllers continue to master OPDs. This plan will be fully discussed and a plan will be created for this on 6/28 with ZTL and A 80. The Team feels that with the early turn on of TBFM (Aug 2015), using the Duals full time for a few months earlier and the slower use of OPDs after implementation will allow us to implement and maintain the current or greater th roughput during implemen tation. Joey Tinsley , ATL Metroplex Article 48 Cleveland/Detroit Metroplex Design & Implementation : UAL airlines simulated the Cleveland side of the procedures and was happy except for a couple of things on the BRWNZ STAR, some fixes had to be changed to an @ altitude instead of a window to force the automation in the aircraft to meet other restricti on ahead