U.S. Department 

of Transportation 

Office of the Secretary 

of Transportation 

Mr. Jim Charapich 

President and CEO 

Culpeper Chan1ber of Commerce 

629 Sperryville Pike 

Culpeper, VA 22701 

Dear Mr. Charapich: 

Assistant Secretary 

AUG 2~ 2014 

1200 New Jersey 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. Depariment of 

Transportation's Small Community 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 maximum 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 tiled. 

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 program. 

Sincerely yours, 

Susan L. Kurland 

Assistant Secretary for 

Aviation and International Affairs 
CONNECT' GROW • PROSPER 

July 25, 2014 

The Honorable Anthony Foxx 

Secretary of Transportation 

U.S. Department 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: 

We are 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 

Community 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 needs 

of area business, organizations, and educational institutions. 

I want to assure you that the "public-private" relationship that has been developed 

between CHO and the Culpeper 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 relationships 

like ours that can make the difference between having these services and losing them. 

We have every confidence that the program will have the futl support of the Central 

Virginia business community. 

Sincerely, 

J2~;~pich President & CEO 

Culpeper Chamber of Commerce