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# AUG 2

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Mr. Larry W. Dudding President-Board ofDirectors Greene County Chamber ofConm1erce P.O. Box 643 Ruckersville, VA 22968 DearMr. Dudding: Assistant

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### Thankyoufor your letter, addressed to Secretary Foxx, supportingthe proposal submittedby the Charlottesville-Albemarle Airport Authority for a grantunderthe U.S. Department of Transportation's Small Commtmity Air Service DevelopmentProgram. Secretary Foxx asked that I respond to you on his behalf. The Small CommunityAir Service Development Program was established to help smaller communities address air service deficiencies, particularly issues related to high airfares and insufficient service. Underthe statute, the Department may make a ma,ximun1 of40 grant awards each year, although no more than four maybe to communities in the same State. To provide communities with latitude in developing solutions to their air service deficiencies, the statute provides flexibility 

## inthe types ofair service development projects that canbefunded. On June 30, the Department issued an order setting a deadline ofJuly 31 for applications. As these grantrequests are pending before the Department, I cannot comment on the merits ofany particular proposal. I assure you, however, thatthe Department will give full and fair consideration to all proposals thathave been properly filed. As is our standard practice, I 

## amplacing a copy ofyour letter and this response in Docket DOT-OST-2014-0113 as a contact outside the record ofthis matter. I appreciate your interest in this progran1. Sincerely yours,

Susan L. 

### Kurland Assistant Secretary for Aviation and International AffairsJuly 22, 2014 The Honorable Anthony Foxx Secretary ofTra nsportation U.S. Deparment ofTransportation 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 ofsupport on behalf ofthe Charlottesville-Albemarle Airport Authority's (CHO) application to the U.S. Department ofTransportation'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 exemplaryjob 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 ofquality, commercial air service has a profound impact on the region's economy through improved access forvisitors but equally important, supports the needsof area business, organizations, and educational institutions.
Iwantto assure you that the "public-private" partnership that has been developed between CHO and the Greene County Chamber ofCommerce for the purpose ofsupporting 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 ofthe Central Virginia business community.