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Worked with Great Lakes regional office and administrator on our Customer Involvement plan and tr ied to get all th e powers to be at headquarters to agree on something to move forward. Currently we are estimating that we are going to be about 11 to 13 months behind schedule beca use of this added requirement. Worked closely with or DAL representative on numerous issues and are trying to move forward. Design Program manager and Ed Hulsey attended the meeting to talk about the number of speed restrictions on the STAR procedures. Speeds have been established to manage compression during the arrival and maintain in vectoring areas without having to re - state the speed restriction. Numerous examples around the NAS and discussions with other facilities help us determine that we are in line with other facilities in the NAS. Thanks to ATL Metroplex NATCA representative Joey Tinsle y who helped in discussion on DAL operation with their Metroplex design and things to watch for. Submitted by Don Ossinger - CLE/DTW Metroplex NATCA Article 48 Lead Southern California Metroplex – June 2016 The SoCal Metroplex Legal Team continues to re view responses to public comments to the Draft EA. There are approximately 300 comments that still require review. The contractor delivered the EA document, minus Appendix F (Response to Comm ents) to the team June 1, 2016. The Team provided responses to re quest for information letters from Congressman Peters (SAN), Taber Law Group (SMO Noise), Congressman Sanchez (SNA) , and Thella Bowens (SAN). The Core Team received a briefing from MITRE on proposed Curved SID desig n for SIDs off of BUR and SNA. The team will present the information to the Area SMEs and work with industry partners to finalize a design. The Core Team met with Gary Norek, FAA Director Airspace Services, and Glen Martin, Western Regional Administrator , and his staff at the Western Regional Of fice. Discussions focused on post – ROD and pre - implementation outreach to address HQ environmental justice (EJ) concerns. HQ would like SoCal procedures to be run under the AEDT software program that provides noise results in EJ communities. Gary Norek also requested the team "storyboard" podcast videos that will describe SoCal procedures and their interactions to the public. The podcasts are planned to be listed on the SoCal website post - ROD. Training scenarios, training plans, automation, LOAs, SOPs, vide o mapping , and preferential routing issues continue to be addressed by team members at SCT and ZLA. The POCs for both facilities have begun work on a contingency implementation plan in the event the ROD is not signed in time to publish procedures in Novemb er 2016. The SoCal Metroplex Team hosted the first meeting with Servicios a la Navegación en el Espacio Aéreo Mexicano (SENEAM), Mexican a ir t raffic c ounterparts, at the Southern California Terminal Radar Approach Control (SCT) on June 7 through June 9, 2 016. The original intent of the meeting was to update radar handoff coordination procedures and airspace utilization agreements for Metroplex procedures between Tijuana Approach Control, Southern California Terminal Radar Approach Control , and North Island Radar Air Traffic Control Facility, as well as Mazatlán Area Control Center and Los Angeles Air Route Traffic Control Center. The meeting plans evolved when an opportunity was presented to address legacy automation and operational coordination topics betw een the air traffic service providers with the necessary expertise in one location. The FAA and SENEAM participants were able to collaborate to achieve benefits of enhanced aviation efficiencies and safety.