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AIR TRAFFIC REQUIREMENTS (AJV - 7) James Keith (D10) is NATCA's Article 114 Repre sentative to the AJV - 7 Office. His update for this report is below. Remote T ower SRM The SRM panel reconvened to review Next Gen's (ANG) proposal for Phase 3 of the Leesburg , Va., project. The SRM document w as sent out for review April 4. NATCA submitted three comments to the document: 1. The lack of regulatory authority to enforce control instructi ons in class G uncontrolled airspace. The lack of regulatory authority to issue control instructions makes the mitigation of procedural pattern work not acceptable. 2. The document did not address the hazard that exist s with Class G airspace reference weather. Aircraft can enter Cl ass G airspace clear of clouds and one - mile visibility. 3. The proposal put forth by ANG did not address the need for voice r ecordings and radar playback data. The panel had little data from phase 2 due to the fact ANG did not have voice recordings and radar play back. For t he first two issues , NATCA's submissions have been added to the SRM document. For the third, the l ack of voice recordi ngs and radar playback has not been addressed by ANG. Terminal CHI The CHI team submitted its opinion on colors for electronic flight strips to TFDM. STARS E2 Terminal CHI is working with this program to help shape the concepts an d how the y will be displayed on the scope. In the upcoming weeks , Terminal CHI and Enroute CHI will get together to discuss how the fourth line data block can or will be used. Enroute c onsoles AJV - 7 has been reviewing the need t o address consoles in centers. National Voice Switch has brought the possible need to replace or modify consoles. I will report more once AJV - 7 completes the analysis. Long Range Radar SRM The SRM was sche duled for first week of April. The panel was push ed from the last week of May to the first week of June. Short Range Radar SRM This SRM is next week. The scope of the panel is to identify areas that have overlapping radar coverage and if there is any risk in removing radar sites that overlap.