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The Team has provided data and an initial draft response to an LA Roundtable letter dated Oct. 1, 2017. The letter has been distributed for comments. The Team continues to respond to numerous noise complaints received from the Ombudsman. The core team had been working with a HQ Environmental Specialist in conducting the noise screen for two proposed BUR SIDS that are part of the mitigation for the Benedict Canyon Petitioners who are one of the nine petitioners in the lawsuit. The SIDS passed the noise screen. The Team has received signed settlement agreements from Orange County, Laguna Beach, and Newport Beach. The documents are awaiting HQ signatures. The facilities have been busy preparing for the Feb. 1 and March 29 implementation dates. Submitted by Jose Gonzalez Article 48 Rep, SoCal Metroplex Cleveland/Detroit Metroplex Design & Implementation The core team was in Cleveland this month. Along with addressing numerous administrative issues, the main focus was coordination on a potential implementation date of September 2018. All facilities have indicated they can accomplish the needed training for a September implementation. In addition, NAVCANADA indicates it can support the September timeline but emphasized that the Windsor VOR will be decommissioned at that time and any procedures using this navaid will be impacted. This includes the Earth SID and the WEEDA and GEMNI STARs for Detroit in addition to several other procedures serving the satellite airports around Detroit. The CSA FPT office also notified us today the Richmond 8 SID would be decommissioned in July. Losing the RIC 8 SID is a particular concern if we implement in September. Another roadblock to a September implementation is that ZOB FAST indicates they can't support a September date due to workload. The latest date they can support is July. We also communicated the potential slip to September with Delta, which supports this because it gives more time for the triple landing operation to come together. However, Delta has stated that without the trip operation at a minimum being fully approved for use or actually in use prior to implementation, that they do not support implementation of the current Metroplex design. They are concerned about a potential efficiency loss from the current operation without the trips. All SIAPs for Detroit and Cleveland will still be implemented in May. Also, the PRM approaches needed to support the triple landing operation will be published in May. A discussion will be scheduled next Tuesday with the project leads and the program office to strategize on how to move forward. Approximately 90 percent of the LOAs and SOPs are complete. We have delayed the SMS activity that was scheduled for the last week in January to a future date to be determined based on whatever the new implementation timeline looks like. Discussion with Gary Fiske from the ATO along with AFS-420 have recommended the possibility or running HITLs to validate the triple landing operation at Detroit. If

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