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ZFW is preparing for their first wave of impacts from VORMON. I spent a day at ZFW to help develop strategies and gather data for facility use as they work through the GTH and UIM VORTACs being removed. The Central OSG also held a one ‐ day VORMON meeting at ZFW to bring in the facility contacts to meet the OSG, FPT, and PBN spe cialists that will be working all of the impacted procedures. The abbreviated amendments to support KIAH EoR eff orts have been approved by AJV ‐ 14 and submitted to the Central FPT for development. Very recently, issues have come up between industry expect ations and ATC expectations regarding language for simultaneous operations contained in the notes section of the procedures. We are working through those issues currently. As of right now, a Sept. 13 chart date is expected, with a small possibility of one cycle earlier still being potentially feasible. A Co ‐ Leads Quarterly meeting has been scheduled for April 24 ‐ 26 in Washington, D. C. This will be our first chance to discuss priority projects and we will hopefully come away with a plan for what will be wor ked first once the funding stream is flowing more predictably. KORD/KMDW, KCMH, and KSAT continue to need priority handling and we want to get the KSTL/T75 work moving as well. We continue to do background work on other requests so we will be able to move them quickly once we are given the go ahead. Efforts are underway at KDFW and KMSP for development of missed approach procedures that may mitigate some of the impacts from CRO. Each site is different. KDFW workgroups are meeting to develop a workable conc ept for Rwy 13R Arrivals and Rwy 18L Departures. KMSP has also made a similar request within the last month. In Central, we have PBN requests on hold for the following airports or facilities: KABQ, KADS, KAUS, KDAL, KDFW, KHOU, KIAH, KJVY, KLUM, KMCI, KMD W, KMKE, KMSY, KOKC, KOMA, KORD, KSTL, ZAU, ZKC, and ZMP. Submitted by CSA PBN NATCA Art. 114, Brent Luna PBN/Metroplex Design and Implementation Lead Monthly Report – 3/20/18 Metroplex: Florida Metroplex re ‐ design work has begun on the Florida Metroplex SIDs/STARs in the next few weeks. The re ‐ scoping efforts will focus mostly on procedure design at 10,000ft and above to reduce environmental and community involvement costs. The design teams plan to be complete with the SID/STAR design by the end of April /early May time frame. Post ‐ implementation of SoCal Metroplex amendments is scheduled for March/May 2018. The SoCal project is currently looking at a closeout on May 31, 2018. Detroit/Cleveland Metroplex is now working towards a September 2018 implementat ion date. The Denver Metroplex team is awaiting the decision from HQ regarding the future re ‐ start of the project after consideration is given to external advocacy of the project. The Las Vegas Metroplex had been on a "slow down" due to budgetary concerns but will begin developing a working schedule to move forward with the project as originally scoped and will re ‐ start design meetings the week of March 19. The next Metroplex Leads meeting is scheduled for a May 1 ‐ 3, 2018 face to face at Mitre.