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Administrators, their Staff, local FAA facilities, and FAA Office of Communications. All involved are giving tremendous support for every level of this growing activity. The public comment period for the Columbus Airport wi l l be completed in a few weeks. Meetings in Columbus are planned for October to evaluate any public comments and develop the initial VNAV and speed constraints prior to Industry SIM activities. Finally, meetings for the KSAT PBN Project and a number of Ch icago Area PBN Requests have been scheduled. In San Antonio, we will meet with the Airport Authority to discuss what an appropriate Community Eng agement Plan would be for them. We will also talk to the facility about how criteria changes are impacting the notional design w ork that has already been done. In Chicago , there are numerous requests. We will meet and determine which requests w ill be included 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, Brent Luna PBN and EoR 8/11 - 9/7 8/11 Participated in PBN NIWG telcon. Primary discussion centered around ALPA VNAV concerns and the resulting mixed equipage issue if mitigati on can't be found. MITRE is tasked with determining equipage levels but in addition to equipage, there is no way for a controller to know if a flight crew is trained to fly an AR procedure. 8/14 - 17 Attended NATCA Airspace Committee meeting . 8/17 Particip ated in Community Involvement Desk Guide. The guide is intended to assist airspace and procedures workgroups with identifying CI requirements and steps. There have been several issues identified with the guide and PBN reps continue to work to ensure this d ocument actually accomplishes what is intended. 8/21 - 25 Attended Metroplex Leads meeting. 8/29 Participated in NATCA/AJV - 0 collaboration meeting. Topics discussed included Florida Metroplex, Denver Metroplex, NEC, e tc. 8/30 - 9/5 Annual Leave. 9/6 - 7 O n site in D . C . at PBN Office Submitted by Phil Hargarten, PBN Rep/National EoR Rep . PBN/Metroplex Design and Implementation Lead Monthly Report – Sept. 7 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 Metro plex has caused the project to be unsustainable. Several options for re - scoping Florida were presented to Lynn Ray (VP, Mission Support) on March 24. Originally, we were working towards a Summit meeting on September 14 to re - engage