U.S. Department ofTransportation Office of the Secretary ofTransportation

Mr. Jim Charapich President and CEO Culpeper Chan1ber ofCommerce 629 Sperryville Pike Culpeper, VA 22701 Dear Mr. Charapich: Assistant Secretary 

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Thank you for your letter, addressed to Secretary Foxx, supportingthe proposal submitted by Charlottesville Albemarle AirportAuthority for a grant under the U.S. Depariment of Transportation's Small CommunityAirService Development Program. Secretary Foxx asked that I respond to you on his behalf. The Small CommunityAir Service DevelopmentProgram 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 of40 grant awards each year, althoughno more than four maybe to communities inthe same State. To provide communities withlatitude indeveloping solutions to their air service deficiencies, the statute provides flexibility inthe types ofair service developmentprojects that can befunded. 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 onthemerits ofany particularproposal. I assure you, however, that the Departmentwill give full and fair consideration to all proposals that have beenproperly tiled. As is our standard practice, I amplacing a copy ofyourletter and this response in Docket DOT-OST-2014-0113 as a contact outsidethe record ofthis matter. I appreciate your interest 

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SusanL. Kurland Assistant Secretary for Aviation and International AffairsCONNECT' GROW • PROSPER July 25, 2014 The Honorable Anthony Foxx Secretary of Transportation U.S. Department ofTransportation 1200 New JerseyAve. 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 submitthis letter of support on behalf ofthe Charlottesville-Albemarle Airport Authority's (CHO) application to the U.S. Department ofTransportation's Small CommunityAir 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 associatedsuccesses. The availability ofquality, commercial air service has a profound impact on the region's economy through improved access forvisitors but equally important, supports the needs ofarea business, organizations, and educational institutions. Iwant 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 broadlywill 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 

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# J2~;~pich President & CEO Culpeper Chamber of Commerce