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what to do. Determination was made that amendments will be handled by Metroplex and publication planned for February. 7/21 : Participated in NATCA/AJV - 14 collaboration meeting . 7/24 : Participated in Atlantic Coast Route and Northeast Corridor telcon . 7/31 : Participated in DCA Noise Roundtab le meeting to brief the roundtable on the .41 process . 8/1 : Attended Florida Metroplex Planning meeting and Florida Metroplex Atlantic Coast Routes Briefing . 8/2 : Participated in Northeast Corridor procedures scrub . 8/3 : Participated in initial PBN Co - lead telcon to discuss Commu nity Outreach Desk Guide. 8/4 : Participated in PBN Co - lead telcon with AJV - 0 to discuss expectations for PBN Full Work Group on DCA/BWI procedures . 8/10 : Participated in Denver Metroplex TBO telcon . Phil Hargarten, PBN Rep/National EoR Rep PBN/Metroplex Design and Implementation Lead Monthly Report – 8/10/17 Metroplex: Because of budget and funding concerns, there have been numerous budget drills conducted by the Metroplex program over the last several months. Because of the agency 's self - imposed requirements for community involvement, the costs associated with this effort, along with the escalating environmental costs, on a project the size of Florida Metroplex has caused the project to be unsustainable. Several options for re - scop ing Florida were presented to Lynn Ray (VP, Mission Support) on March 24 and currently we are working towards a Summit meeting on September 14 to re - engage facilities and present a strategy for moving forward. Post - implementation of SoCal Metroplex amend ments is scheduled for October 2017, November 2017, and February 2018. We are currently in discussions regarding the appropriate time to close out the SoCal project. Detroit/Cleveland Metroplex is still working towards a May 2018 implementation date but ma y move to the right due to environmental timelines. The CLT project will close out the week of Sept. 12. The next Metroplex Leads meeting is scheduled for Aug. 22 - 24 in Denver. Funding issues has also caused us to look at other PBN projects as well, not j ust Metroplex. There has been much discussion around what to do with the Atlantic Coast (AC) Q routes. Part of the current Florida re - scoping options is to incorporate a portion of the AC Q routes. The AC Q routes may also be segmented with the northern ro utes (ZDC and north) and could possibly be incorporated into the NE Corridor initiative or a stand - alone project with a dedicated set of Co - Leads. The PBN office is currently working with Flight Standards (AFS), Aeronautical Information Services (AIS), S ervice Center Operational Support Groups (OSGs), Flight Inspection, and PASS on a workgroup to look at ways to streamline the Instrument Flight Procedures (IFP) development processes to improve the way we validate incoming IFP requests. This workgroup will also look at ways to better prioritize valid requests that aligns better with safety needs and the PBN NAS Nav Strategy. This workgroup kicked off on March 28 with a weeklong meeting in Seattle and just finished it's fourth weeklong meeting on August 4 in Atlanta. The timeline for completion of this work is TBD. Also, the document defining Industry roles and responsibilities on PBN workgroups and projects is still currently in draft status and is awaiting final approval.