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SEP 2 1 2011 

The Honorable W. Keith Hall 

Kentucky House of Representatives 

Frankfort, KY 40601 

Dear Mr. Hall: 

Thank you for your letter supporting the proposal submitted by the City of Pikeville for a 

grant under the Small Community Air Service Development Program (Small Community 

Program). 

The Small Commxmity Program was established to help smaller communities address air 

service deficiencies, particularly issues related to high airfares and insufficient service. 

Under the statute, the Department may use the funds to make a maximum of 40 grant 

awards each year, although no more than four may be to communities in the same State. 

In order to provide communities with latitude in developing solutions to their air service 

deficiencies, the statute provides significant flexibility in how the financial assistance 

may be used. 

On July 1, the Department issued an order riequesting that communities interested in 

receiving a grant this year file their applications by August 2. As these grant requests are 

pending before the Department, I am sure you understand that I cannot comment on the 

merits of any particular proposal. I assure you, however, that the Department will give 

full consideration to all proposals that have been properly filed. 

As is our normal practice, I am placing a copy of your letter and this response in Docket 

DOT-OST-2011-0119 as a contact outside the record of this matter. I appreciate your 

interest in this program. If I can provide further information or assistance, please feel 

fi-ee to call me. 

Sincerely yours, 

Aloha Ley 

Associate Director 

Small Community Program 
STATE REPR£SENTATIV£ 

93RD LEGISLATIVE DISTRICT 

155 McCoy Caney Road 

P. O. Box 683 

Phelps, Kentucky 41553 

Telephone: (606) 456-3432, Ext.25 

Facsimile: (606) 456-8565 

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Room 466C 

Frankfort, Kentucky 40601 

(502) 564-8100, Ext. 635 

Message Line: (800) 372-7181 

E-mail: keith.hall@lrc.ky.gov 

Augus t 11, 201 1 

Ms. Aloha Ley 

Associate Director, Small Community Program 

Office of Aviation Analysis 

1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE 

W86-310 

Washington, D.C. 20590 

Re: City of Pikeville-Small Community Air Service Development Grant Proposal 

Docket DOT-OST-2011-0119 

Dear Ms. Ley: 

I am writing to support the above referenced Small Community Air Service Development 

grant proposal, submitted by the City of Pikeville. 

The Pikeville-Pike County Regional Airport (PBX) sits at the center of a 13 county region of 

345,000 people in Eastern Kentucky, Western Virginia and Southwestern West Virginia and is 

more than 100 miles from the nearest commercial airport. The PBX Region is surrounded by one 

of America's most important energy producing regions and is ripe for additional economic, 

industrial and business grovsth. The introduction of scheduled passenger airline service wdll assist 

in creating thousands of new jobs. 

The successful award of a Small Community Air Service Development grant vnW significantly 

assist the City of Pikeville and its partners - the Pikeville-Pike County Airport Board and the 

Southeastern Kentucky Chamber of Commerce and its consultant in successfully recruiting a 

regional airline which will provide service to a major connecting center. I am pleased to join my 

colleagues from throughout the region in supporting the SCASD grant to the City of Pikeville. 

Sincerely, 

Cc: Southeast KY Chamber of Commerce 

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W. Keith Hall 

State Representative 

93f<* Legislative District 

COMMITTEES: Energy Subcommittee, Cochair; Appropriation and Revenue; Natural Resources and Environment, Vice Chair; 

Tourism Development and Energy; and Budget Review on Transportation