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The FAST shop at ZTL continues to have a heavy workload a nd we now have weekly telcons to work with the 530 shop before we schedule dates for up - numbered procedures. This new procedure appears to be keeping the workload manageable. The leads continue to work with the Regional Administrator and the Metroplex offi ce on lessons learned from the May public outreach and what is needed to make the next one even more successful. The next public outrea ch is scheduled for July 13th. We have been giving technical expertise in the designs for the outreach presentat ion. Team has set a date of September 12th for a post implementation review and lessons learned. Submitted by Ron Myers - CLT Metroplex NATCA Article 48 Lead Florida Metroplex - June 2016 Florida Metroplex continued to work the southern part of the project. Miami Approach, Miami Center , and Palm Beach Approach continued to work the challenges of the complex airspace of south Florida. The preliminary work is complete and now we are planning a HITL to evaluate the designs. 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 Metropl ex Leads meeting in Chicago and attended a Florida Metroplex core team - planning meeting. Submitted by Greg Harris - Florida Metrople x NATCA Article 48 Lead Atlanta Metroplex – June 2016 The Atlanta Metroplex team is continuing work towards our 9/15/16 changes and our 11/15/16 STARs implementation. On 6/7 we briefed the Command Center on both our 9/15 and 11/15 changes, answering all o f their questions. The briefing went well and was recorded for everyone at the Command Center. The following week we met with the ZTL POCs, ZTL SMEs, ZME POCs , and ZME SMEs regarding our future changes. The meeting went very well, and ZME agreed to absorb one additional minute of TBFM delay. ZTL agreed to accept Satellite arrivals from the Northwest at FL350 (previously was FL330). ZTL also agreed that during operation changes at ATL that they would not require ZME to changes the STARs for any aircraft that were already airborne. We have a meeting this week with ZTL and A80 regarding the usage of OPDs. The plan is to come up with some slower time frames to initially use the OPDs (the aircraft will use the lateral track even when not issued the O PD). By only using the OPDs during slower periods it will allow us to maintain throughput in ATL while giving the workforce time to be more familiar with how OPDs work . Upcoming, we have a briefing for the ESC Directors on 6/30 and a briefing for Delta on 7/20. The GBA A (Georgia Business Aviation Association) has also invited us to participate in their quarterly meeting at the end of September . W e are looking over our schedule to see if we can participate. Submitted by Joey Tinsley - ATL Metroplex NATCA Article 48 Lea d Cleveland/Detroit Metroplex – June 2016 Worked to address issues from l ast month's industry week. We did some minor corrections to what we could and designed a major overhaul to the DTW SIDs modifying four of them to an open RNAV SID and removing all of the altitudes in the structured climb to a few at or below altitudes. Minor issues at CLE with the lead carri er UAL wanting to move forward.