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most cases. A white paper has been written and will be ta ken to the ARINC 424 meeting in March for review. New Business: It was requested that the working group discuss criteria that requires an intermediate fix (IF) to be within 15 track miles to the runway. SWA requested the language be changed to 15NM from the airport (altimeter setting source). The group agreed that we would add this to our issues list for proposed future action. Established on Departure Operations (EDO) The last EDO HITLS were conducted during the week of January 30th and we are finalizi ng the information that will used for the Fast - Time Simulations, which we believe will be accomplished during o ur teleconference on March 2nd. Ben Willems (Tech Center) , who was in charge of the HITLS , is going through all the data and preparing his draft briefing. Once the FAST Time Simulations are completed, they will also prepare a draft briefing and we plan on seeing both of these draft briefings by March 31st with the final briefing to be completed on April 21st. We plan to have telcon and / or meeting t o go over all the information to ensure it has been captured correctly in order to make the decision to move forward with an SRMP, revise the information, or scrap the concept. National Strategic Production Planning (NSPP) We meet every Tuesday and discu ss the procedures that are scheduled for implementation across the country and have no issues to report at this time. Digital Approach Procedure Initiative The phase two initiative to the advertise the primary approach on the ATIS as an RNAV (GPS) or RNAV (RNP) approach when weather conditions are below Visual Approach minimums has been canceled for PHL, SJC, SMF, and NCT as the request from RTCA was accomplished with phase one. TERMINAL AUTOMATION MODERNIZATION REPLACEMENT (TAMR) Aaron Rose (NCT) is the TAMR Articl e 114 Representative for NATCA. His report to the membership is below. Are you feeling TAMR? Five more facilities this reporting period felt the impact of NATCA TAMR. Whether it was moving to new processors and software or transitioning complet ely from ARTS to STARS , DAB, D21, MGM, LEX, and C VG all joined the TAMR family. Thank you to all the FacReps and contro llers that made this possible. Thank you also to the TAMR SMEs who never stop working for the membership. Mr. Rose started this reporti ng period with telcons involving the future of terminal simulation. Bill Spence (BTV) and Tom Marynik (ZAB) have been giving up countless hours towards improvements to both AT Coach and a terminal version of the e n r oute tool SPOT (Scenario Processing and Organization Tool). The three of us attended a call with TAMR program office for a way forward for funding and development of Terminal SPOT. Mr. Rose also attended numerous JSS (Joint Site Surveys) and ISS (In itial Site Surveys) via phone.