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a irport took the time to give us a tou r of the surrounding communities that could be potentially impacted. We also visited several of the local noise monitoring sites and our OSG Environmental Specialist briefed the first stages of our Community Engagement planning. The meeting was attended by the Great Lakes Regional Administrator, Barry Cooper , as well as the Central OSG Manager, Robert Beck. Planning is also taking place for a PBN Co - Lead Meeting, to be held December 13 - 15 at the Central Service Area. This will be the first time that all th ree sets of Service Area Co - Leads are able to meet to focus on how our projects m ove through the Support Group. There is quite a bit of disconnect between the OSGs and AJV - 14 at HQ. Our goal is to bridge these gaps and ensure both offices are being served well by the projects and efforts in the field. Please Note: Continued review and support of ERAM ER136427 (Proper ERA M SID Processing) is requested. Sabu Varghese, ZFW NATCA Automation Rep ., is working and keepin g affected facilities updated. Currently, i t has been placed in a "future" bucket by the NUT (National User Team) because of its size (cost) and complexity , but we are hoping for attention to it soon. Submitted by CSA PBN NATCA Art. 114 Brent Luna PBN and EoR 10/17 - 21 : In Washington, D.C., with Me troplex Study Team lead to begin process of transitioning into new role as Metroplex Study Team/PBN lead. 10/25 : Participated in Las Vegas SITTI STAR telcon with Western PBN Co - lead, L30, ZLA , and FAA HQ. L30 had expressed concern with the facility being able to prepare for the STAR on 1/5 and also brought up issues with whether or not the STAR is procedurally separated from slow climbing international departures when in a specific runway configuration. After the telcon, the L30 NATCA and management team came to the conclusion that the facility would be prepared for implementation and the issue with departures is manageable. 10/26 - 11/2 : Annual Leave 11/4 : Participated in a telcon with Next G en and AFS - 450 regarding ongoing study of EoR and the potential for wrong runway selection when RNP approaches serve multiple runways from the same downwind. Currently, AFS does not have enough data to definitively identify the level of potential collision risk due to wrong runway selection when conducting Duals and Tr ips. An identified mitigation is to possibly remove transitions to multiple runways or have unique paths to each runway, which will enable a controller to identify if an A/C is on the wrong track. 11/7 - 10 : In D . C . to continue transition to new role. 11/9 : Participated in a meeting with AJV - 14 management, Next G en , and AFS to discuss the upcoming Salt Lake project. The PBN request is for new STARs, SIDs , and RNPs. Salt Lake is a NIWG - identified facility for EoR using TF leg GPS approaches instead of RNP - AR. The purpose of this meeting was to determine whether or not to design RNP - AR and TF procedures or TF only. Due to the relatively low level of RNP - AR equipage and the NIWG request to use Salt Lake as a TF Duals site, the determination was made to only desi gn TF procedures with the potential to come back later for RNP - AR. SWA