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guidelines outlined in the Notice. If you have any questions whether your facility qualifies, please don't hesitate to contact me. Please don't hesitate to contact me at procedures@natca.net or 208-870-1621 with any questions, comments or suggestions. TACTICAL ACTION NOTIFICATION RESPONSE (TANR) Shannon Jenkins (ZME) is the Article 114 Representative for Tactical Action Notification Response (TANR). His report to the membership is below. Boston TANR LOA is in signature phase and will be completed by the end of the month. LOA includes CONR/601AOC, EADS, WADS, ZBW, A90, Y90, PWM, PVD, SYR, BTV, ALB, BGR, BAF, and 104th FW. 21 May through 25 May briefed TANR to Atlanta Center, Atlanta TRACON, and the Eastern Service Center. Live fly exercise was scheduled for 23 May but cancelled due to inclement weather. Exercise was accomplished on 24 May and went well. Weather was still somewhat of an issue so exercise was modified a bit but still successful. Maintaining contact with all parties involved for future exercises utilizing TANR to prep for upcoming Super Bowl. Continued to establish contact with FacReps from other facilities to better educate and prepare them for upcoming briefings and exercises and to answer any questions they may have. Also continuing to socialize through contact with FacReps from other facilities for gaining more real time knowledge of events in which TANR was used. NATCA Safety & Tech Update Week of June 25, 2018 ATO OPERATIONAL CONTINGENCY GROUP (ATOC) Jason Grider (ZFW) is the Article 114 Representative for NATCA. Also, included in Mr. Grider's duties is Article 114 representation for the Business Continuity Plan (BCP). Mr. Grider's report for this month is below: Over the past several months, the FAA has been standing up a new directorate called AJR-X. This directorate will be focused on all things contingency. ATOC will now be called Contingency Operations. NATCA received an Article 7 briefing from the director of AJR-X and the manager of Contingency Operations (CO). Mr. Grider has been working with AJR-X members to prepare for sight visits to ZOA and ZMA to assist these facilities in building contingency plans from the ground up. The CO group plans to spend up to nine weeks working on site and at the Command Center providing subject matter expertise and contractor support to ensure that the OCP for each facility including the surrounding support facilities are complete and executable. The BCP conducted a test of the ability to utilize the ATOP lab at the WJHTC to control traffic in the oceanic airspaces. NATCA provided SMEs from ZAN, ZNY, and ZOA to observe the capabilities of the lab to load the sync database to allow controllers to utilize