14 CFR § 325.5 - Determinations and designations.

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title: "14 CFR § 325.5 - Determinations and designations."
title_number: 14
title_name: "Aeronautics and Space"
section_number: "325.5"
section_name: "Determinations and designations."
chapter_name: "OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY, DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION (AVIATION PROCEEDINGS)"
subchapter_number: "B"
subchapter_name: "PROCEDURAL REGULATIONS"
part_number: "325"
part_name: "ESSENTIAL AIR SERVICE PROCEDURES"
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authority: "49 U.S.C. Chapters 401, 417."
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# 325.5 Determinations and designations.

DOT will issue a determination of the essential level of air service for a place within 6 months after each of the following events:

(a) A notice is received that service to an eligible place will be reduced to only one carrier that holds a section 41102 certificate;

(b) A place is designated as an eligible place under 49 U.S.C. 41731 and either paragraph (c) or (d) of this section or § 325.7(e); or

(c) A review was conducted of essential air service of that place under § 325.6.

[Doc. No. DOT-OST-2014-0140, 84 FR 15938, Apr. 16, 2019]