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The Honorable Bryan Hughes Texas House ofRepresentatives Austin, Texas 78701 Dear Mr. Hughes: Assistant Secretory'· 

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Thank you for your letter ofJuly 31, addressed to Secretary Foxx, supporting the proposal submitted by the Tyler Pounds Regional Airport for a grant under the U.S. Department of Transportation's Small Community Air Service DevelopmentProgram. Secretary Foxx asked that I respond to you on his behalf. The Small Community Air Service Development Program was established to help smaller communities address air service deficiencies, particularly issues related to high airfares or insufficient service. Under the statute, the Department may make a maximum of40 grant awards each year, although no more than four awards 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 flexibility in the types ofprojects that can be funded. On June 24, the Department issued an order requesting that communities interested in receiving a grant this year file their applications by July 26. As these grant requests are pending before the Department, I cannot comment on the merits ofany particular proposal. I assure you that the Department 

### will give full and fair consideration to all proposals that have been properly filed. As is our standard practice, I am placing a copy ofyour letter and this response in Docket DOT-OST-2013-0120 as a contact outside the record ofthis matter. I appreciate your interest in this program. Sincerely yours, ,r-\

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### Small CommunityAirService DevelopmentProgram Dear Secretary Foxx: I write to offer my strong support of Tyler Pounds Regional Airport's grant application through the Small Community Air Service Deve1opment Pilot Program. Northeast Texas, including House District Five, greatly benefits from the services Tyler Poundsprovides. Northeast Texas is a very rural area ofthe state, and many ofits citizens requiring nearby air travel rely heavily onTyler Pounds Regional Airport. This grant wou1d go a long way to help achieve the goals ofenhancing air service in EastTexas by continuing to adequately meet the demand of 

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