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National Office Week in Review: December 5, 2017

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proposals and sel ect a final design. The design will address the ATSAPs that have been received. SCT and ZLA have amended, reviewed, and trained for procedures being implemented December and February. The team has begun analysis and a draft response to the LA Roundtabl e letter to the Administrator dated Oct . 1, 2017. The letter addresses noise and flight track concerns in the Culver City area. The team continues to work with Bridgenet to produce procedure boards for February implementation, possible webinars, briefing s , and to begin the transition of the SoCal Metroplex Project to the Western OSG. Submitted by Jose Gonzalez Article 48 Rep, SoCal Metroplex Atlanta Metroplex • Worked on c loseout package . • Worked on plain language for Post Implementation Design Packages . • Co mpleted the close out meeting preparations for De c. 5. Submitted by Christian Karns , Atlanta Metroplex Co - Lead Cleveland/Detroit Metroplex Design & Implementation Ron and I met with mayors from Strongsville and Olmstead Falls to discuss upcoming public out reach. We were given good feedback on how their respective communities will turn out and act during these meetings. We are not expecting any issues with either of these communities. We also met with the suburban mayor's group with included six different co mmunities and a few congressional staffers, the meeting went very well, and also are not expecting any issues with the communities that were represented. Held a t elcon between ZOB/ZAU/D21 regarding our contingency plan to implement 5/24/18, during the co nversations ZAU felt that by not implementing everything at once, they wouldn't be able to train all of their controllers for a second implementation. ZOB/D21 are in talks now to see if it feasible to implement all procedures, and have "extensive flow" add ed to a few routes to help with their concerns. I feel that by doing everything at once would have less impact on the controllers involved, and on the NAS. We have a follow up telcon set up for 11/29/18 to see if we can come up with a final implementatio n plan. Facilitated meetings with surrounding f acilities SMEs with CLE/D21 POCs to finalize LOA s. We are at an estimated 95 percent completion of all LOAs at this point. The SMS f or implementation and LOAs/SOP s is scheduled for January of next year. Due to the holiday s , we moved our SMS paneling from Jan. 6, 2018 to Jan. 29, 20 18, and anticipate this will allow the time to wrap up the loose ends before we panel. Travele d to Detroit to hold our first three community engag ements, we will have our final th ree next week in Cleveland. For these meetings, we have our POCs/SME s from

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