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ACRP will complete all route validation from the Canadian b order along the entire east coast of the NAS all the way to ZSU's southern boundaries by late October. ACRP will be in Washington , D . C . for the PBN co - leads meeting this upcoming week. Then ZJX, ZMA, ZSU , and ZTL to complet e all of the validation phase. We will be coordinating with the Eastern Service Center for production phase. Much wo rk lies ahead with LOAs, SOPs , and facility level training prior to production, p ublication, and implementation. Industry and internal FAA outreach and briefings are also a big part of our upcoming schedule as well as close coordination with other PBN proj ects in the works. Jorge Rivera, Article 48 Rep CSA PBN 2016 - 09 - 24 MSP Communit y Engagement is in full swing. Last week we attended the MSP Noise Oversight Committee (NOC) Meeting where a CSA Environmental Specialist briefed on the NEPA Process and that results indicate that no impact to local noise will come from the MSP P ost Implementation Amendments. An MSP w ebsite is in the final stages of development and will be hosted by the FAA NextGen Web Services. Publicly accessible items will include the Envir onmental Briefing given this week and access to the Noise Screening Documentation. Fact sheets explaining the changes and a video walk - through with voiceover will also be available for public education. These items will all be briefed to the Minneapolis A irports Commission (MAC) and NOC p rior to going live on the web. Special t hanks go to Beth White from the NextGen Communications Office and Paul Dunholter from BridgeNet International, who have both been instrumental in giving the facilities support. The f acilities have also done excellent work preparing the materials necessary. All T - Route designs for the BRD Decommissioning have been submitted for publication in the Federal Register and additional work for ZMP and the Denver Metroplex Team to develop Q R oute s is planned for early October. ZMP is heavily impacted by the BRD Decom because the VOR MON project hasn't given much thought to the effects on surveill ance when NAVAIDS are removed. Requested l and l ease extensions were not successful and this pr oject is moving forward. This will have negative impacts to FAA facility operations as well as restrict under - equippe d users in the immediate area. NAVAIDS provide needed surveillance structure in large areas of n on - r adar operations. In areas without VOR covera ge, aircraft without the proper GPS or RNAV equipment may not be able to join the GPS - based navigation system. Unless radar is monitored, these aircraft will not be able to receive ATC services. AUS and SAT proposed designs are being finalized next week a nd the Noise Screen for the Austin p ublications have be en submitted by Environmental. We have had meetings with both a irport a uthorities and expect to also provide each airport with a similar web pre sence for community education. Those materials are in ear ly development and will be finalized as soon as the notional designs ha ve been completely agreed upon. Post Implementation changes to AUS are very minor but include a new ST AR (DXEEE) from the Southwest. SAT is a new i mplementation and p re - i mplementat ion p lans are being