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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 Fall 2016 timeframe after a determination of what t he airport and community outreach will look like and finalizing funding issues. Also, the tower/TRACON move into the new facility sometime in August. The study team analysis of the conceptual designs has determined roughly $7.5M in potential benefits to th e Las Vegas Valley with an $11 cost to the agency. We continue to work with the VOR MON program to determine the most efficient way to integrate the ongoing work being done by VOR MON with the need to replace procedures through the current PBN processes. T here are ongoing talks with AJV - 14 to add additional co - lead support in each of the Service Centers to do this extra procedure design and development. We also continue to work with AJV - 14 to improve the PBN Dashboard by finding ways to validate the accurac y of the Dashboard data along with efforts to examine the consistency of the data. The PBN Dashboard is the main support tool used by the OSG PBN Co - Leads to produce the Baseline Analysis Reviews (BAR) for PBN project requests through the 7100.41A process. 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 several 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. Submi tted by Metroplex Study Team Lead Art. 48 Ed Hulsey National Design and Implementation: Metroplex: Funding has become an issue, we were briefed last week that there is a 2.2 million dollar shortfall of FE funding for this calendar year, due mostly to commu nity outreach. There are several Metroplex teams that have not been able to move on to the evaluation phase because they have been waiting for a community outreach plan. After discussion with Josh Gustin (PBN Manager) , the belief is NextGen will provide th e additional funding for this year. Community Outreach continues to be challenging in developing and implementing PBN in the NAS. Metroplex has developed Community Outreach plans for the sites, however funding for all t he activities has become a road block. If the FAA wants Outreach to be part of all PBN projects, whether Metroplex or 7100.41 projects , it is incumbent upon them to find the funding. Additional ly issues have arisen from the Office of Environmental and Energy (AEE) briefing "policy" guidelines to non - FAA entities i.e. Airports/Noise Committees and not briefing the OSG c o - leads nor have they been willing to send the guide handbook to them, because it has not been signed off by congress ; you can't make this stuff up. VORMON: NATCA has forwarded an addendum to the PBN MOU for additional OSG c o - leads in the service centers because of the 7100.41 workload and the VORMON workload. Without the additional resources the VORMON program will not come close to making their waterfall. NATCA is awaiting a resp onse from the agency.