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restart issue they identified would be resolved with ZID and ZTL running the same build. We are still waiting for the final report. We had a meeting at ZME in May to discuss support needed to conduct metering for their arrival push during the mid - watch. ZKC and ZTL were in attendance. It was determined that further discussi on and additional facility support was needed. As a result, we will be meeting at ZME the week of June 26th. ZME, ZID, ZTL, ZKC, ZFW, and ZHU have been invited to this meeting. We have also extended an invitation to Memphis TRACON. The last week of May , a team was sent to ZME to assist with the Cuba metering effort and to work on updating ZMA's Enroute Departure Capability (EDC). ZMA was happy with the outcome and follow up meetings are being scheduled. The next effort will be working on arrival meter ing to MIA and FLL. We also had a TBFM 4.7 Ops Evaluation at English Creek. Some minor issues were identified by the Ops Team and we will return the week of June 19th to determine if the identified problems have been fixed. If they have been resolved, w e will conduct a TBFM 4.7 key site at ZAB the week of July 10th and ZID the week of July 17th. The week of June 12th the TSAS Ops Team went to PHX to work with P50 on their nominal routes. This meeting was very productive. This week we have two activities. A team will be working with ZNY to determine the best layout for the Traffic Management Unit and N90 to assist with the arrival feed to EWR. In addition, a team will be at the Tech Center to test TBFM 4.7. The week of June 26th we will have a team at ZSE to work with ZSE, ZOA and ZLC. The agenda will be to engage ZOA and ZLC to condition the follow to SEA by use of Extended Metering and Coupled Scheduling. As stated above, we will also be at ZME. The week of July 4th we will be conducted s ome site surveys for IDAC install. TRAFFIC FLOW MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (TFMS) Brian Campos (DCC) represents the NATCA membership as their Article 114 Representative to the TFMS project. His report is below. The meeting for TFMS DT team was canceled for th e month of May. I was on vacation, out of the country and Chris Jeffers was in another supporting detail on another project. The release of R13 patch 9 for ABRR and PDRR in relation with ERAM software started the month of May's activity. TFMS, and ER AM programs tested the viable configuration for initial ABRR and PDRR deployment. Specific testing was performed to exercise the most likely possible different configurations of ABRR and PDRR on TFMS. It was determined facilities can have differing activ ation statuses of ABRR and PDRR at the core and TFMS remote sites without creating unfavorable results for neighboring facilities. Some errors surfaced but nothing critical or high and are being addresses. During my absence, Chris Jeffers, SME on the TFMS deployment team filled in for any issues needing TFMS DT input. This included Jeff traveling to some sites turning on the protected segments and ABRR/PDRR. ZDV, ZLC, ZMP and ZJX got up to full