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Denver Metroplex – July 2016 The Denver Metroplex core team has been heavily engaged with the Western Service Center, the Regional Administrator, and Headquarters to lie out the upcoming outreach activities. The initial engagement with select officials will tentatively begin late August. Further refinement of who will all be engaged, to what degree, and the exact details of what is to be shared are still being decided. In late June, the Denver Metroplex team completed a very successful TBFM HITL at MITRE. The team was able to both find adequate solutions to issues identified for the proposed redesign and to also identify further modifications to their current TBFM adaptation to allow for a better flow in the current state. Meetings were held in July with representatives from the satellite airports in the Denver area on concerns they had with the proposed procedures. The POC's and SME's from ZDV, D01, and DIA did an exemplary job explaining the design rational along with the intended use of the proposed procedures to the representatives. After much dialogue with these representatives, the POC's and SME's made further design modifications that were recommend by these representatives. Submitted by Mark Ostronic – Denver Metroplex NATCA Article 48 Lead National Route Structure Program; Atlantic Coast Route Plan (ACRP) – June 2016 The notional design work has been completed for ZBW, ZNY, ZDC, ZJX, and MIA. We are still in the process of merging the programs with Fla. Metroplex from the ZJX boundary to ZSU. The two programs will continue to run with close coordination between the two programs. The Targets files have been merged for ACRP and FL Metroplex at ZMA. This allows us all to be on the same page and each program to maintain an accurate working file. WE spent the last 2 weeks working with ZJX/ZMA refining the routes and adding waypoints where needed. ACRP is currently maintaining 2 files to accommodate the different criteria's in design. Metroplex uses 3 miles from SUAs. ACRP is mandated to use 4 miles from SUAs. We are hoping that Metroplex can provide us with a document, waiver or something that will allow us to use 3 mile for publication. The leads of both programs will coordinate the progress of the "Q" route development. The increase of over 110 flights daily in and out of Cuba will require ACRP to expedite work at the FIR boundaries to handle the increase in traffic. Without it expect delays throughout the NAS. The G448 corridor and the Cuba piece is also on second file because of different Criteria that was used in development inn Metroplex design. Upcoming Activities ACRP will finalize the design process with modeling of the routes with ISIM 2 weeks at ZMA. ZJX and ZMA will be complete with design after modeling ACRP will be going to ZSU at the end of the month for modeling of the Y routes designed by Metroplex. ACRP will be designing ZSU routes to help PBN routes from Piarco and other surrounding foreign FIRs as part of the Caribbean initiative study program. Submitted by Jorge Rivera - National Route Structure Program/ACRP NATCA Article 48 Rep/Lead CSC OSG PBN – July 2016

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