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SAFETY AND TECHNOLOGY DEPARTMENT AIR TRAFFIC REQUIREMENTS (AJV - 7): James Keith (D10) is NATCA's Article 48 Representa tive to the AJV - 7 Office. His update for this report is below: Terminal Chi : The agency and NATCA have exchanged scoping document proposals. We should have a final document in the next few days. EIDS - AJV - 7 is continuing to build requirements. A few of t he struggles are the wide variance between SAIDS displays across the NAS. Advanced Interval Management (A - IM) : I attended RTCA workshop meeting 9/15/2016. The workshop was centered on using A - IM to dependent parallel runways and crossing runways. Mike Ran som from PHL gave a briefing on a test at PHL he participated in. The information received at RTCA will be used in the upcoming work on the con ops beginning in October. NATCA, ALPA, and FAA m et to discuss the use of delegated or shared separation in the c oncept of pair approaches in A - IM. NATCA and ALPA voiced their position of not using delegated or shared separation. Separation responsibility remains with the controller. The agency agreed and will work to develop the tool to allow the controller to detec t any separation loss. Sector Enhancement : AJV - 7 completed the sector enhancement prioritization process. AJV - 7 and I briefed the National User Team (NUT) and ERAW on the outcome. Thank you to the NUT for working the prioritization operational scoring pro cess. QWERTY : The test for QWERTY keyboards will begin after the first of the year. Offshore Precipitation Capability : The agency has developed three plans on putting this back into Miami and Houston Center. AJT will make a decision soon. Aircraft type CAR : AJV - 7 and I briefed the NUT on a possible software change. The software change would prevent non - ICAO aircraft types from being entered into ERAM. The NUT will do a use case on this proposal. COLLABORATIVE DECISION MAKING (CDM ): Kyle Andrews (ORD) i s the NATCA Representative to the Surface Concept Team (SCT). Mr. Andrews forwarded the information below for the membership. Kyle Andrews participated in a SCT meeting at Charlotte airport on September 21 to view the NASA ATD2 project. Representatives fr om SWA, DAL, AAL, Airports Surface Efficiency Office, NASA, CLT Tower, and NextGen attended the meeting. His report : The airline metric D0 has been a discussion point for years. D0 could present a cultural problem for surface metering – convincing airline s management that waiting at the gate, beyond D0, provides enough fuel, time, and emissions benefits to change the belief that there is a penalty associated with holding a push. Some sort of outreach needs to be initiated to convince the airlines that the first come - first - serve model of taxi - out no longer is the most efficient. A concern for ATC is that the airlines try to cover both sides of this – they push at their Earliest Off Block Time to meet