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Th I ' i :.i r • e Honorable Harold Rogers 

U.S. House of Representatives ;.„^ Oj-^3i 

Washington, DC 20515 '^ ^^ ^ ^ ^s^ 

Dear Congressman Rogers: •-» -t- 1 

Thank you for your letter supporting the proposal submitted by the City of Pikeville for a 

grant under the Small Community Air Service Development Program (Small Community 

Program). 

The Small Community 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 use the funds to make a maximum of 40 grant 

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

In order to provide communities with latitude in developing solutions to their air service 

deficiencies, the statute provides significant flexibility in how the financial assistance 

may be used. 

On July 1, the Department issued an order requesting that communities interested in 

receiving a grant this year file their applications by August 2. As these grant requests are 

pending before the Department, I am sure you understand that I cannot comment on the 

merits of any particular proposal. I assure you, however, that the Department will give 

full consideration to all proposals that have been properly filed. 

As is our normal practice, I am placing a copy of your letter and this response in Docket 

DOT-OST-2011-0119 as a contact outside the record of this matter. I appreciate your 

interest in this program. If I can provide fizrther information or assistance, please feel 

fi*ee to call me. 

Sincerely yours. 

Aloha Ley 

Associate Director 

Small Community Program 
ROLD ROGERS 

^IH DISTRICT, KENTUCKY 

COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS 

CHAIRMAN 

Congress of the lanited States 

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Ms. Aloha Ley 

Associate Director, Small Community Program 

Office of Aviation Analysis 

1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE 

W86-310 

Washington, D.C. 20590 

RE: City of Pikeville (KY) 

Small Commimity Air Service Develnnment Grant Proposal 

Docket DOT-OST-2011-0119 

Dear Ms. Ley, 

I am writing to encourage your funding support for the Small Community Air Service 

Development grant proposal, submitted by the City of Pikeville, Kentucky. 

The Pikeville-Pike County Regional Airport (PBX) sits at the center of a 13 county 

region of 345,000 people in Eastern Kentucky, Western Virginia and Southwestern West 

Virginia and is more than 100 miles fi-om the nearest commercial airport. The PBX 

Region is the heart of the Appalachian coalfields making it one of America's most 

important energy producing regions. The introduction of scheduled passenger airline 

service will spur fiirther economic development and job creation. 

Your fimding support is vital to the City of Pikeville's recruitment of a regional airline to 

provide service to a major connecting hub. Lam pleased td join my colleagues across our 

rural region in support of this project. 

Sincerely, 

Harold "Hal" Rogers 

Member of Congress 

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