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Protected segments were turned on nationwide after the installation of R13 P9A release in TFMS that fixed necessary issues. P9A also fixed other issues for ABRR and PDRR, which will slowly be turned on at facilities into Jan - Feb 2018. The fi rst three facilities for ABRR/PDRR were ZLC, ZDV , and ZMP since they were the most experienced facilities with the product. For remaining facilities, A SME is being provided to help with turn on through Mark DiPalmo. CTOP initiative discussion took place with its current affects with the release. Although the timer still set at 1410 minutes for automatic route amendments, anything that involved multiple flight plans would still follow the 120 - minute timer for automatic insertion of chevrons on conformant routes. As the system, builds confidence and further tweaks of enhancements on ERAM and TFMS, it will look toward lower the 1410 after more discussion with the impacts. AIMS tickets with engineering requests and fixes were reviewed. VOR MINIMUM OPERATIN G NETWORK (MON) John Vogelsang (P31) is the Article 114 Representative on the VOR MON project. His update is below. The last month had quite a few program telcons and meetings. Early in the month I participated in a telcon regarding the future of HIWAS. A s there will be a safety panel after the first of the year regarding that, the VOR MON program is holding off on relocating any transmitters until a final decision is reached on HIWAS. The program is also holdi ng monthly telcons with the DOD. Even though t hey wer e notified of the program at it s inception, it seems that some of the VORs on the list for decommissioning are needed for the DOD's missions. We also had our semi - annual IFP an d VOR MON National meeting in Washington, D.C., the week before Thanksgi ving. Some minor tweaking of the waterfall was accomplished during the meeting. C urrent VORs that are in the process of NR studies: GGT - Georgetown, N .Y. BFD - Bradford, Pa. PPM - Phillips, Md.