### U.S. Department of Transportation Office of the Secretary ofTransportation



### Mr. Thomas 

### L. Filer Chairman Louisa County Chamber ofCommerce 214 Fredericksburg Avenue P.O. Box 955 Louisa, VA 23093
Dear Mr. Filer: Assistant Secretary 

## AUG 25 2014 1200 NewJersey Avenue, SE Washington, DC 20590



### Thank you for your letter, addressed to Secretary Foxx, supporting the proposal submitted by Charlottesville Albemarle Airport Authority for a grant under the U.S. Department of Transportation's Small Community Air Service Development Program. Secretary Foxx asked that I respond to you onhis behalf. The Small Community Air Service Development Program was established to help smaller communities address air service defl.ciencies, particularly issues related to high airfares and insufficient service. Underthe statute, the Department may make a maximum of40 grant awards each year, althoughno more than four may be to communities inthe same State. To provide communities with latitude in developing solutions to their air service deficiencies, the statute provides flexibility in the types ofair service development projects that can be funded. On June 30, the Department issued an order setting a deadline ofJuly 31 for applications. As these grant requests are pending before the Department, I cannot comment onthe merits ofany particular proposal. I assure you, however, that the Department \Vill 

### give full and fair consideration to all proposals that have beenproperly filed. As is our standard practice, I am placing a copy ofyour letter and this response in Docket DOT-OST-2014-0113 as a contact outside the record ofthis matter. l appreciate your interest in this program. Sincerely yours,

Susan 

### L. Kurland Assistant Secretary for Aviation and International Affairs

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.. The Honorable Anthony Foxx Secretary ofTransportation U_.S. Deparment ofTransportation 1200 NewJersey Ave. SE Washington, DC 20590
RE: U.S. DOT Small CommunityAir Service Development Program Charlottesville-Albemarle Airport Charlottesville, VA
Dear Mr. Foxx:
On behalf ofthe Louisa County Chamber ofCommerce. I am pleased to submit a letter ofsupportforthe Charlottesville Albemarle AirportAuthority's (CHO) application to the U.S. Department ofTransportation's Small Communiity AirService Development Program (SCASDP). The grant request will, ifapproved will help our region meettoday's aviation world needs and attract new service, as well as retain those services. Charlottesville has done an exemplaryjob in attraciting new and expanded air service to CHO and Central Virginia. The availability of quality, commercial airservice has a profound impact on the region's economythrough improved access forvisitors. Visitors are the backbone oftourism and the economic region. Equally important is that CHO supportsthe needsof area business, organizations, and educational institutions by meeting a transportation need and bringing attention to our community.
The "public-private" partnership that has been developed between CHO and the louisa County Chamber ofCommerce forthe purpose ofsupporting our local CHO airservices will have ourfull support. Small community airservice initiatives are strengthened, as is our communities, 

### by partnerships like ours and can make the difference between having these services and losing them. We are confidence thatthe program will have the full support ofthe Central Virginia business community. We encourage the acceptance and approval ofthe grant.

Thomas 

### L Filer Chairman louisa County Chamber ofCommerce



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