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Submitted by PBN/Metroplex Design and Implementation Lead Art. 114 Ed Hulsey . NATCA National Airspace Rep A lot of personnel changes are happening in Mission Support and the Airspace Services division at FAA Headquarters, the changes taking place with the VP of Mission Support and the Dir ector of Airspace Services will most likely affect how we do business moving forward. I look forward to developing a collaborative relationship with the new VP and Director as we develop new airspace and procedures for the NAS. We continue to work with th e FAA to deal with the changes sur rounding community involvement. Our goal is to develop a usable guide that can be implem ented consistently nationwide. The first draft was completed and our experts in the field will be meeting with headquarters personnel to make necessary changes. Many of the PBN projects moving forward have moderate to severe funding concerns. Nobody has any answers as to what the budget will look like moving into October and we will most likely have to make some hard decisions moving f orward as it appears we will not receive the proper funding to continue our implement ations in a consistent manner. The NATCA Airspace Committee will be meeting next week. Submitted by Jim Davis (PCT) NATCA National Airspace Rep. AIR TRAFFIC PROCEDURES (A JV - 8) Andy Marosvari (BOI) is the Article 114 Representative in the AJV - 8 Office. Mr. Marosvari's update is below. I participated in two Safety Risk Management (SRM) panels the p ast month including : Changes to 3 - 7 - 2, Taxi and Ground Movement Operations t hat clarify clearances to vehicle operators on the airport movement areas and provide additional guidance for aircraft issued clearances to hold short of active runways. There are 44 countries around the globe that have registrations that begin with a num eral and two that have seven alphanumeric registrations. The various automation platforms in the NAS do not process aircraft with registrations that begin with a numeral, forcing controllers to amend the data block using a letter as the leading character. Different facilities have used different letter combinations to track these aircraft. A change will make the letter "Q" the standard for those aircraft until software changes can be made to facilitate the tracking of these aircraft. Several changes to the 7110.65 are slated for publication in October 2017 and March 2018. The ability to assign properly equipped GPS aircraft the Minimum Obstruction Clearance Altitude (MOCA) along established airways where NAVAID reception and distance created artificially h igh Minimum En Route Altitudes (MEA). Previously, the MOCA was assignable only within 22 NM of the NAVAID or conditionally beyond that distance. This change removes the current conditions for GNSS aircraft since these aircraft do no rely on reception of th e ground based NAVAIDS. Class G Airspace has been defined as any airspace that is not Class A, B, C, D , or E and this definition fell short of defining our responsibilities as controllers. Although the