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We just completed two Public Engageme nt Meetings in Columbus, Oh io. These public workshops presented the notional designs that have been developed and explained the Environmental process and PBN Development process to those who attended. Attendance was good and many questions were answered. Once the public comment peri od is completed, the full workgroup will reconvene and evaluate any areas of concern and determine whether these concerns can be mitigated in some way. The next step will be for our Industry partners to fly the proposals in their Simulators. The full workg roup will then reconvene and evaluate the data. Pre - Implementation activities for KABQ (RNP RWY 26) and ZMP (BRD Decom) have been completed and both facilities will implement the changes next week on the August 17 Chart Date. Finally, meetings for the KS AT PBN Project and a number of Chicago Area PBN Requests are being scheduled. In San Antonio, we will meet with the Airport Authority to discuss what an appropriate Community Enga gement Plan would be for them. We will also meet with the full KSAT workgroup to discuss how criteria changes are impacting the notional design work that has been done. In Chicago , there are numerous requests. We will meet and determine which requests will be i ncluded in the project. This scoping meeting will allow us to develop a clear mission and then reach out and engage the appropriate officials and communities. Submitted by CSA PBN NATCA Art. 48 Rep. Brent Luna Eastern Service Area (ESA) PBN July 2017 Capital Area Project DCA/BWI/IAD Traveled to DCA and BWI to meet with the r espective airport authorities on August 9th and 10th to discuss the upcoming design meeting. Bennie Hutto and John Belk joined us to help with the transition the local community roundtable concerns/request to the .41 PBN design process. The full working gr oup (FWG) will begin looking at the request to amend procedures at all three airpo rts beginning the week of Aug. 23rd. The ESA community outreach team has been working with HQ on an outreach plan, which will be presented on August 15 to elected officials. Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International P roject (CVG) The PBN team was scheduled to return to CVG in September but has delayed that meeting until the week of December 4th. It has come to our attention that the local airport authority and the Memphis Airport District Office (ADO) are working a separate environmental study for runway 18R and 36L. We are working to coordinate efforts. VOR MON IFP Working Group I attended the VOR MON IFP WG meeting July 18 - 20th with John Vogelsang the article 114 rep. T he primary concerns for eastern PBN was the flexibility in the MON waterfall and backfill overtime. Leonixa Salcedo, the project manager, informed the group that the MON project now has overtime money. The project overtime (PROT) is available beginning in FY 18. This will allow us to move forward on multiple projects in eastern, such as PXT. MON waterfall schedules appear to be more flexible moving forward. The eastern PBN and MON teams will meet to coordinate and make adjustments to the MON waterfall.