 

         UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

   DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

           OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY

                  WASHINGTON, D.C.

Issued by the Department of Transportation 

on the 23rd day of April, 2003

Essential Air Service at

BROOKINGS, SOUTH DAKOTA, and

HURON, SOUTH DAKOTA

under 49 U.S.C. 41731 et seq.

       Served: April 28, 2003

     Docket OST-1997-2785

     Docket OST-2000-7138

Notice of Extension

This serves as notice to the public of the action described below, taken
by the Department official indicated.  (No additional confirming order
will be issued in this matter.)

By Order 2003-4-5, issued April 3, 2003, served April 8, 2003, the
Department requested proposals from air carriers interested in providing
essential air service at Brookings and Huron, South Dakota.  These
proposals were due within 20 days after the date of service of
Order 2003-4-5, i.e., by April 23, 2003.

We have received a request from MultiAero, Inc., for a twenty-day
extension of this due date.  In support of its request, MultiAero
affirms that it will deliver to the Department of Transportation all
required documentation on or before May 13, 2003.

We will grant this request.  As is our normal practice, we will
therefore grant all potentially interested applicants until May 13,
2003, to submit service proposals for any or all of the subject points.

This action is effective immediately.

Action taken by:	Dennis DeVany, Chief

					EAS and Domestic Analysis Division, X-53

					Office of Aviation Analysis

					Office of the Secretary

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