The Dulles International Airport Development Commission finds that its development and promotion functions need to be performed on a more permanent basis. The recent creation of an executive branch  Department of Aviation, furthermore, has provided an appropriate institutional locus for these functions. Through discussions including the Dulles Commission's Chairman, the Virginia Secretary of Transportation, and representatives of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), an agreement has been reached whereby the Federal Aviation Administration will provide office space at Dulles Airport for an extension office for the Department of Aviation's Air Service Development Division to carry on functions hitherto vested in the Dulles Commission. 

The Secretary of Transportation anticipates that the office will require no new appropriation of funds by the General Assembly. The Dulles Commission feels the functions of the office can be adequately guided by members of the Virginia Aviation Commission, who have been selected by the Governor to represent geographic areas of the Commonwealth and provide advice to the Governor, the Secretary of Transportation, and the Department regarding the aeronautical needs of the areas that they represent.

With its functions thus transferred to an executive branch agency, the Dulles Commission recommends that the Commission be formally disbanded by the 1980 General Assembly.