U.S. Department 

of Transportation 

Office of the Secretory 

ot Trqnsportotlon 

AUG 2 7 2014 

Mr. Larry W. Dudding 

President-Board of Directors 

Greene County Chamber of Conm1erce 

P.O. Box 643 

Ruckersville, VA 22968 

Dear Mr. Dudding: 

Assistant 

·.· .•. + 

Naw Jers~;y Avenue. SE 

Washington, DC 20590 

Thank you for your letter, addressed to Secretary Foxx, supporting the proposal submitted by the 

Charlottesville-Albemarle Airport Authority for a grant under the U.S. Department of 

Transportation's Small Commtmity Air Service Development Program. 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 and 

insufficient service. Under the statute, the Department may make a ma,ximun1 of 40 grant 

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

provide communities with latitude in developing solutions to their air service deficiencies, the 

statute provides flexibility in the types of air service development projects that can be funded. 

On June 30, the Department issued an order setting a deadline of July 31 for applications. As 

these grant requests are pending before the Department, I cannot comment on the merits of any 

particular proposal. I assure you, however, 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 of your letter and this response in Docket 

DOT-OST-2014-0113 as a contact outside the record of this matter. I appreciate your interest in 

this progran1. 

Sincerely yours, 

Susan L. Kurland 

Assistant Secretary for 

Aviation and International Affairs 
July 22, 2014 

The Honorable Anthony Foxx 

Secretary ofT ra nspo rtatio n 

U.S. Deparment of Transportation 

1200 New Jersey Ave. SE 

Washington, DC 20590 

RE: U.S. DOT Small Community Air Service Development Program 

Charlottesville-Albemarle Airport 

Charlottesville, VA 

Dear Mr. Foxx: 

I am pleased to submit this letter of support on behalf of the Charlottesville-Albemarle Airport 

Authority's (CHO) application to the U.S. Department of Transportation's Small Communiity Air Service 

Development Program (SCASDP). The Airport's grant application highlights the need in today's aviation 

world to not only attract new service, which we have, but equally as important, to retain that service. 

Charlottesville has done an exemplary job in attracting new and expanded air service to CHO, but 

numerous industry events outside its control imperil CHO's hard work and associated successes. The 

availability of quality, commercial air service has a profound impact on the region's economy through 

improved access for visitors but equally important, supports the needsof area business, organizations, 

and educational institutions. 

I want to assure you that the "public-private" partnership that has been developed between CHO and 

the Greene County Chamber of Commerce for the purpose of supporting our local CHO air services by 

marketing them more broadly will have our full support. Where small community air service initiatives 

are concerned, it is partnerships like ours that can make the difference between having these services 

and losing them. Towards this end, Greene County Chamber of Commerce would be pleased to 

contribute $500.00. 

We have every confidence that the program will have the full support of the Central Virginia business 

community.