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requests in a timely man ner under the current process. We hope to finalize a productive process next year. Atlanta and Southern California had succe ssful implementation in November, and we ha ve received positive feedback. Congratulations to those two teams and I would like to thank them for their dedication and hard work! Submitted by Jim Davis (PCT) NATCA National Airspace Rep AIR TRAFFIC REQUIREMEN TS (AJV - 7) James Keith (D10) is NATCA's Article 114 Repr esentative to the AJV - 7 Office. His update for this report is below. The holidays in November made th is a short month for in AJV - 7. Jim Ullmann and Mark McKelligan attended AJV - 7 managers meeting al ong with James Keith the Articl e 114 representative for AJV - 7. The purpose was to introduce AJV - 7 to the NATCA S afety and T echnology director and deputy. I assisted in creating a lett er to AJT on Long Range Radar. The letter was emailed to AJT by our D ire ctor of S afety and T echnology , Jim Ullmann. The letter pointed out the need for primary radar beyond the 2020 mandate for ADS - B. The week of November 14 - 18 I attended the Advanced Interval Management (A - IM) work group. The workgroup is preparing the concep t of operations for A - IM. I attended weekly meetings in November discussing the concepts for terminal work package one. Offshore Precipitation Capability : AJT has not decided on which s tep to take on this capability. NATCA is meeting with AJT in December and this will be a topic of discussion. RNAV and PERFO RMANCE BASED NAVIGATION (PBN) Bennie Hutto (PCT) is the Article 114 Representative for RNAV and PBN criteria work. Mr. Hutto's report for the membership is below. RNAV ATS Routes We are still in the process of working with AJV - 14 and AFS - 400 regarding the "Lateral Protected Airspac e Criteria for RNAV ATS Routes," which we hope will lead to change in criteria and reduction in the basic width of an RNAV route. Pilot Controller Procedures & Systems Inte gration (PCPSI) A meeting was scheduled for December 12th, but has been canceled. NextGen Integration Work group (NIWG) PBN Nothing new to report at this time. Established on Departure Operations (EDO) The Human - In - The - Loop - Simulations (HITLS) Shakedow ns have been completed and the next step will be to perform the actual HITLS to start collected the required data to determine if EDO operations can be accomplished as planned. Below are the HITL dates for the data collec tion: