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operation while using OPDs. We plan on continuing to keep Delta involved in our implementation plans and our planning another meeting with Delta the week of 9/5. Our future activities include an ESC Director Briefing on 8/2, an NCF Briefing on 8/10 and a CNS Taskforce Briefing on 8/18. Submitted by Joey Tinsley - ATL Metroplex NATCA Article 48 Lead Cleveland/Detroit Metroplex – July 2016 Followed up on issues from Last month's industry week. We incorporated many of the changes that we worked so closely with Delta and United as the lead carriers. This will go back to the groups in early August. Worked with Great Lakes regional office and administrator on our Customer Involvement plan. Headquarters has agreed on Congressional briefing in the beginning of august. Two weeks later we will present our plan to the public at a board meeting in Cleveland on the 16th and an airport board meeting in Detroit on the 17th. The communications office will be doing a press release for both events. Currently we are estimating that we are going to be about 13 to 15 months behind schedule because of this added requirement. Met with several offices in the Central Service area on various issue to include but not limited to: D21 Sector moves, Customer involvement plans and public meetings, Nov 10th Chart, OKC production issue, Airway removal, MTC, frequencies and numerous others. Submitted by Don Ossinger - CLE/DTW Metroplex NATCA Article 48 Lead Southern California Metroplex – July 2016 The SoCal Metroplex legal and environmental specialists have completed review of all but five comments to the EA. The five comments in question require additional input from Headquarters, AEE or other legal divisions to be completed. 14 topical responses to EA comments have been reviewed and edited by legal. The core team will review and consider these amendments. They will then be included in Appendix F of the EA. A draft FONSI/ROD and VP draft briefing document has been submitted to the core team for review and approval. An initial "storyboard" for a SAN area podcast of Metroplex procedures has been submitted to AJV-1, at his request, for planned use prior to implementation. The podcast will be used to inform the public of how procedures interact with other procedures and airspace within the NAS. The Core Team began to update the SoCal Playbook and began the process of developing a contingency plan for all three implementations. The plans require SME input, and a meeting is scheduled for the week of August 1, 2016. The SoCal procedures have been delivered to the Flight Check team. Coordination has begun to schedule the flight checks. SRM panels have been scheduled for both facilities the week of September 19. ZLA has scheduled an additional SRM panel the week August 22 to complete LOA and SOPs. The planned meeting with our SENEAM partners for the week of August 8th will have to be rescheduled. Dates for a meeting in Mexico City and a second meeting in the US are being negotiated. ZLA POCs have been working with the training department and the SMEs to schedule cadre training, validation of TTL scenarios, TTL classroom training and materials. SCT POCs and SMEs have reviewed and approved FIGs for all procedures. The SMEs have been working with the automation team to review and validate fix pairs for training scenarios. Submitted by Jose Gonzalez - SoCal Metroplex NATCA Article 48 Lead

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