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occurring at your facility, you ca n fill out the following form to request a member of the OSHA Committee contact you to discuss your concerns : OSHA Committee Information Request Form Committee Membership We st ill have vacancies in both the Southwest and Great Lakes Regions. POC: Mike Odryna Standard Design Working Group for Towers Mike Odryna attended a meeting in Chicago of the Standard Tower Design working group. This group defines standard requirements to b e built into all new ATC Towers. The f ive sub - groups that were formed were Elevator Design Issues, Fire Life Safety Bus Review, Standard Plan for Down Conductors, Elevator as 2nd Means of Egress, and HPSB Issues. The groups toured both the New ORD T ower and Chicago TRACON. POC: Mike Odryna, S hannon Byrnes, Annette McKinney Regional OSHECCOMs The NATCA Air Traffic Regional Reps and Region X reps attended their respective Regional OSHECCOM meetings throughout July. Minutes from the Regional OSHECCOM meetings can be found at: OSHECCOM KSN Site Fire Drill Requirement All FAA employees are required to participate in a fire drill annually. Ask your local management for the status of fire drills at your facility. POC: Mike Odryna HSV Tower/TRACO N IAQ Issues At the convention Mike Odryna was approached regarding IAQ issues at the Huntsville f acility. D uring the week of September 19th painting was going on at the t ower. The employees voiced concerns over fumes in the t ower that lingered in to the weekend. The Agency is currently looking into the issue. POC: Matt Tucker, Mike Odryna, Molly Ware VOR MINIMUM OPERATING NETWORK (MON): John Vogelsang (P31) is the Article 48 Repre sentative on the VOR MON project. His update is below. The VOR MON program is starting to pick up pace. PXT was taken off the air this month ahead of schedule due to issues with the Navy. PNN has also been completed. AOH, BTL, BUY, SYO and PLB are in the final stages of the decommissioning process. In FY17 the following VORs are slated for discontinuance: RI S ECA FKN MXW ABB JKS STE DDD ENW HRK