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ACCESSION NUMBER:		0001144204-15-049681
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	COMPANY DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			CPI AEROSTRUCTURES INC
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0000889348
		STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:	AIRCRAFT PART & AUXILIARY EQUIPMENT, NEC [3728]
		IRS NUMBER:				112520310
		STATE OF INCORPORATION:			NY
		FISCAL YEAR END:			1231

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		FORM TYPE:		CORRESP

	BUSINESS ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		200A EXECUTIVE DR
		CITY:			EDGEWOOD
		STATE:			NY
		ZIP:			11717
		BUSINESS PHONE:		5165865200

	MAIL ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		91 HEARTLAND BLVD
		CITY:			EDGEWOOD
		STATE:			NY
		ZIP:			11717
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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">Melissa Raminpour</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">Securities and Exchange Commission</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">100 F Street, N.E.</P>

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<TD STYLE="width: 1in"></TD><TD STYLE="width: 0.5in">Re:</TD><TD>CPI Aerostructures, Inc.</TD></TR>
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<TD></TD><TD></TD><TD>Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2014</TD></TR>
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<TD></TD><TD></TD><TD>Filed March 6, 2015</TD></TR>                                                                                           <TR STYLE="vertical-align: top">
<TD>&nbsp;</TD><TD>&nbsp;</TD><TD STYLE="border-bottom: Black 1pt solid"><U STYLE="text-decoration: none">File No.: 001-11398</U></TD></TR>
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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">&nbsp;</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">Dear Ms. Raminpour:</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-indent: 0.5in">CPI Aerostructures, Inc. (the &ldquo;Company&rdquo;)
responds as follows to the Staff&rsquo;s comment letter, dated August 4, 2015, relating to the above-captioned Form 10-K. Please
note that, for the Commission Staff&rsquo;s convenience, we have recited each of the Staff&rsquo;s comments and provided the response
to each comment immediately thereafter.</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0"><B><I><U>Form 10-K for Fiscal Year Ended December 31, 2014</U></I></B></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0"><B><I><U>Management&rsquo;s Discussion and Analysis of Financial
Condition and Results of Operations</U></I></B></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0"><B><I>1. We note that your discussion of the results of operations
focuses on changes in revenue and gross profit/loss. However, because gross profit/loss is impacted by both revenues and cost of
sales, we believe a separate discussion of cost of sales results is appropriate. Please revise to expand your MD&amp;A section
to separately quantify and discuss factors responsible for changes in the levels of your cost of sales during all periods presented
in your financial statements as required by Item 303 of Regulation S-K. As part of your revised disclosure, please revise to quantify
and discuss the impact of each significant component of costs comprising cost of sales that caused cost of sales to materially
vary (or not vary when expected to). For costs that cannot be clearly separated and discussed, include a separate detailed discussion
of non-business group factors affecting operating earnings, where they are analyzed from period to period with detailed explanations
regarding their fluctuations. This disclosure should be presented in a manner so as to allow investors to discern the relative
contribution of each of multiple components cited to the total change in cost of sales and resultant operating earnings.</I></B></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">Securities and Exchange Commission</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">August 14, 2015</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">The Company acknowledges the Staff&rsquo;s comment and proposes
to expand its Form 10-K and Form 10-Q MD&amp;A disclosures on a prospective basis to approximate the following:</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">&nbsp;</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0.5in">Cost of sales for the year ended December 31, 2014 and 2013
was $69,411,709 and $64,555,275, respectively, an increase of $4,856,434 or 7.5%.</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0.5in">The components of cost of sales were as follows:</P>

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    <TD STYLE="width: 68%; font-size: 10pt; padding-bottom: 1pt">Procurement</TD><TD STYLE="width: 2%; font-size: 10pt; padding-bottom: 1pt">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="width: 1%; padding-bottom: 1pt; font-size: 10pt; text-align: left">$</TD><TD STYLE="width: 12%; padding-bottom: 1pt; font-size: 10pt; text-align: right">45,106,460</TD><TD STYLE="width: 1%; padding-bottom: 1pt; font-size: 10pt; text-align: left">&nbsp;</TD><TD STYLE="width: 2%; font-size: 10pt; padding-bottom: 1pt">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="width: 1%; padding-bottom: 1pt; font-size: 10pt; text-align: left">$</TD><TD STYLE="width: 12%; padding-bottom: 1pt; font-size: 10pt; text-align: right">44,146,231</TD><TD STYLE="width: 1%; padding-bottom: 1pt; font-size: 10pt; text-align: left">&nbsp;</TD></TR>
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    <TD STYLE="font-size: 10pt; padding-bottom: 1pt">Labor</TD><TD STYLE="font-size: 10pt; padding-bottom: 1pt">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="padding-bottom: 1pt; font-size: 10pt; text-align: left">&nbsp;</TD><TD STYLE="padding-bottom: 1pt; font-size: 10pt; text-align: right">8,558,124</TD><TD STYLE="padding-bottom: 1pt; font-size: 10pt; text-align: left">&nbsp;</TD><TD STYLE="font-size: 10pt; padding-bottom: 1pt">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="padding-bottom: 1pt; font-size: 10pt; text-align: left">&nbsp;</TD><TD STYLE="padding-bottom: 1pt; font-size: 10pt; text-align: right">6,428,728</TD><TD STYLE="padding-bottom: 1pt; font-size: 10pt; text-align: left">&nbsp;</TD></TR>
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    <TD STYLE="font-size: 10pt; text-align: left; padding-bottom: 1pt">Factory Overhead</TD><TD STYLE="font-size: 10pt; padding-bottom: 1pt">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="padding-bottom: 1pt; font-size: 10pt; text-align: left">&nbsp;</TD><TD STYLE="padding-bottom: 1pt; font-size: 10pt; text-align: right">15,350,942</TD><TD STYLE="padding-bottom: 1pt; font-size: 10pt; text-align: left">&nbsp;</TD><TD STYLE="font-size: 10pt; padding-bottom: 1pt">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="padding-bottom: 1pt; font-size: 10pt; text-align: left">&nbsp;</TD><TD STYLE="padding-bottom: 1pt; font-size: 10pt; text-align: right">13,980,889</TD><TD STYLE="padding-bottom: 1pt; font-size: 10pt; text-align: left">&nbsp;</TD></TR>
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    <TD STYLE="font-size: 10pt; text-align: left; padding-bottom: 1pt">Other contract costs</TD><TD STYLE="font-size: 10pt; padding-bottom: 1pt">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="padding-bottom: 1pt; font-size: 10pt; text-align: left">&nbsp;</TD><TD STYLE="padding-bottom: 1pt; font-size: 10pt; text-align: right">396,183</TD><TD STYLE="padding-bottom: 1pt; font-size: 10pt; text-align: left">&nbsp;</TD><TD STYLE="font-size: 10pt; padding-bottom: 1pt">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="padding-bottom: 1pt; font-size: 10pt; text-align: left">&nbsp;</TD><TD STYLE="padding-bottom: 1pt; font-size: 10pt; text-align: right">(573</TD><TD STYLE="padding-bottom: 1pt; font-size: 10pt; text-align: left">)</TD></TR>
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    <TD STYLE="font-size: 10pt; padding-bottom: 2.5pt">Cost of Sales</TD><TD STYLE="font-size: 10pt; padding-bottom: 2.5pt">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="border-bottom: Black 2.5pt double; font-size: 10pt; text-align: left">$</TD><TD STYLE="border-bottom: Black 2.5pt double; font-size: 10pt; text-align: right">69,411,709</TD><TD STYLE="padding-bottom: 2.5pt; font-size: 10pt; text-align: left">&nbsp;</TD><TD STYLE="font-size: 10pt; padding-bottom: 2.5pt">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="border-bottom: Black 2.5pt double; font-size: 10pt; text-align: left">$</TD><TD STYLE="border-bottom: Black 2.5pt double; font-size: 10pt; text-align: right">64,555,275</TD><TD STYLE="padding-bottom: 2.5pt; font-size: 10pt; text-align: left">&nbsp;</TD></TR>
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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0"><B><I>2. Additionally, please note that even when total amounts
of costs of sales do not materially vary from period to period, the impacts of material variances in components of cost of sales
that offset each other should be separately disclosed, quantified, and discussed (not netted). Please also ensure that your revised
disclosure provides appropriate explanation of underlying reasons for changes (for example, in addition to quantifying the impacts
of changes in price and volume, explain the underlying reasons for these changes). As part of your response, please provide us
with a copy of your intended revised disclosures.</I></B></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">In addition to the above tabular disclosure the Company proposes
enhancing its Form 10-K and Form 10-Q MD&amp;A disclosure on a prospective basis to approximate the following:</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0.5in">Procurement for the years ended December 31, 2014 was $45,106,460
compared to $44,146,231 for the year ended December 31, 2013, an increase of $960,229 or 2.2%.&nbsp; The increase in procurement
was required to support an approximate 5.5% increase in shipments.&nbsp; The Company began focusing on just-in-time purchasing
to optimize cash flow, thus the increase in procurement was lower than the increase in shipments.</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: 0.5in">&nbsp;</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0.5in">Labor costs for the year ended December 31, 2014 were $8,558,124
compared to $6,428,728 for the year ended December 31, 2013, an increase of $2,129,396 or 33.1%.&nbsp; This increase is due to
more direct touch employees needed to support increasing delivery volume in 2014 compared to 2013, specifically on our Embraer
and Honda programs.&nbsp; Additionally, the Company experienced higher than normal labor costs on the A-10 program, which was partially
responsible for the change in estimate described previously.</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">Securities and Exchange Commission</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0.5in">Factory overhead for the year ended December 31, 2014
was $15,350,942 compared to $13,980,889 for the year ended December 31, 2013 an increase of $1,370,053 or 9.8%.&nbsp; This
increase is the result of an increase of $662,000 in salaries for indirect employees, such as stock room employees,
facilities employees and planners, which was required to support more shipping and production in 2014 as compared to
2013.&nbsp; Additionally, the Company had increases in vacation, holiday and sick pay for direct employees of $450,000,
payroll taxes of $125,000 and employee benefits of $199,000 all of which were the result of having more employees in 2014 as
compared to 2013.&nbsp;</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0"><B><I><U>Note 2. Costs and Estimated Earnings in Excess of Billings
on Uncompleted Contracts, page F-12</U></I></B></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0"><B><I>3. We note your disclosure in Note 2 that revisions in
the estimated gross profits on contracts and contract amounts are made in the period in which the circumstances requiring the revisions
occur. During the years ended December 31, 2014, 2013 and 2012, the effect of such revisions in total estimated contract profits
resulted in a decrease to the total gross profit to be earned on the contracts of approximately $42,568,000, $3,700,000 and $1,300,000,
respectively, from that which would have been reported had the revised estimate been used as the basis of recognition of contract
profits in prior years. Please revise your disclosure in MD&amp;A to provide the gross amount of favorable and unfavorable adjustments
to contract estimates to complete for each period presented. To the extent material, please revise your disclosure to address such
circumstances, accompanied by an appropriate level of analysis of the underlying reasons for the significant changes. We believe
such disclosure will give investors more insight to the estimation process associated with your contracts, as discussed in &ldquo;Critical
Accounting Estimates&rdquo; and the separate potential impacts on your results. As part of your response, please provide us with
a copy of your intended revised disclosure.</I></B></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">The Company acknowledges the Staff&rsquo;s comment and proposes
enhancing its Form 10-K and Form 10-Q MD&amp;A disclosure on a prospective basis to approximate the following:</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0.5in">During the years ended December 31, 2014, 2013 and 2012
circumstances required that we make changes in estimates to various contracts. Such changes in estimates resulted in decreases
in total gross profit as follows:</P>

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    <TD COLSPAN="2" STYLE="font-size: 10pt; text-align: center">&nbsp;</TD><TD STYLE="padding-bottom: 1pt; font-size: 10pt">&nbsp;</TD><TD STYLE="font-size: 10pt; padding-bottom: 1pt">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD COLSPAN="2" STYLE="font-size: 10pt; text-align: center">&nbsp;</TD><TD STYLE="padding-bottom: 1pt; font-size: 10pt">&nbsp;</TD></TR>
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    <TD STYLE="width: 58%; font-size: 10pt; text-align: left; padding-bottom: 1pt">Favorable adjustments</TD><TD STYLE="width: 2%; font-size: 10pt; padding-bottom: 1pt">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="width: 1%; padding-bottom: 1pt; font-size: 10pt; text-align: left">$</TD><TD STYLE="width: 10%; padding-bottom: 1pt; font-size: 10pt; text-align: right">700,000</TD><TD STYLE="width: 1%; padding-bottom: 1pt; font-size: 10pt; text-align: left">&nbsp;</TD><TD STYLE="width: 2%; font-size: 10pt; padding-bottom: 1pt">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="width: 1%; padding-bottom: 1pt; font-size: 10pt; text-align: left">$</TD><TD STYLE="width: 10%; padding-bottom: 1pt; font-size: 10pt; text-align: right">1,258,000</TD><TD STYLE="width: 1%; padding-bottom: 1pt; font-size: 10pt; text-align: left">&nbsp;</TD><TD STYLE="width: 2%; font-size: 10pt; padding-bottom: 1pt">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="width: 1%; padding-bottom: 1pt; font-size: 10pt; text-align: left">$</TD><TD STYLE="width: 10%; padding-bottom: 1pt; font-size: 10pt; text-align: right">1,136,000</TD><TD STYLE="width: 1%; padding-bottom: 1pt; font-size: 10pt; text-align: left">&nbsp;</TD></TR>
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    <TD STYLE="font-size: 10pt; text-align: left; padding-bottom: 1pt">Unfavorable adjustments</TD><TD STYLE="font-size: 10pt; padding-bottom: 1pt">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="padding-bottom: 1pt; font-size: 10pt; text-align: left">&nbsp;</TD><TD STYLE="padding-bottom: 1pt; font-size: 10pt; text-align: right">(43,268,000</TD><TD STYLE="padding-bottom: 1pt; font-size: 10pt; text-align: left">)</TD><TD STYLE="font-size: 10pt; padding-bottom: 1pt">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="padding-bottom: 1pt; font-size: 10pt; text-align: left">&nbsp;</TD><TD STYLE="padding-bottom: 1pt; font-size: 10pt; text-align: right">(4,958,000</TD><TD STYLE="padding-bottom: 1pt; font-size: 10pt; text-align: left">)</TD><TD STYLE="font-size: 10pt; padding-bottom: 1pt">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="padding-bottom: 1pt; font-size: 10pt; text-align: left">&nbsp;</TD><TD STYLE="padding-bottom: 1pt; font-size: 10pt; text-align: right">(2,436,000</TD><TD STYLE="padding-bottom: 1pt; font-size: 10pt; text-align: left">)</TD></TR>
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    <TD STYLE="font-size: 10pt; text-align: left; padding-bottom: 2.5pt">Net adjustments</TD><TD STYLE="font-size: 10pt; padding-bottom: 2.5pt">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="border-bottom: Black 2.5pt double; font-size: 10pt; text-align: left">$</TD><TD STYLE="border-bottom: Black 2.5pt double; font-size: 10pt; text-align: right">(42,568,000</TD><TD STYLE="padding-bottom: 2.5pt; font-size: 10pt; text-align: left">)</TD><TD STYLE="font-size: 10pt; padding-bottom: 2.5pt">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="border-bottom: Black 2.5pt double; font-size: 10pt; text-align: left">$</TD><TD STYLE="border-bottom: Black 2.5pt double; font-size: 10pt; text-align: right">(3,700,000</TD><TD STYLE="padding-bottom: 2.5pt; font-size: 10pt; text-align: left">)</TD><TD STYLE="font-size: 10pt; padding-bottom: 2.5pt">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="border-bottom: Black 2.5pt double; font-size: 10pt; text-align: left">$</TD><TD STYLE="border-bottom: Black 2.5pt double; font-size: 10pt; text-align: right">(1,300,000</TD><TD STYLE="padding-bottom: 2.5pt; font-size: 10pt; text-align: left">)</TD></TR>
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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0.5in">For the year ended December 31, 2014 approximately $39,915,000
of the unfavorable adjustment was the result of changes in estimates on the Company&rsquo;s A-10 WRP described earlier. In addition,
the Company has one contract that has had shipping dates extended a number of times. As a result, labor and procurement costs have
changed since the initial contract estimate, which resulted in an unfavorable adjustment of approximately $693,000. The Company
also has one contract on which we have experience technical issues, which resulted in excess engineering time that caused and unfavorable
adjustment of approximately $599,000. Also, the Company has one multi-year contract that has experienced normal procurement price
increases that has caused an unfavorable adjustment of approximately $555,000. No other individual favorable or unfavorable changes
in estimates for the year ended December 31, 2014 were material.</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0.5in">For the year ended December 31, 2013 we had three contracts
which resulted in favorable adjustments of $395,000, $350,000 and $106,000, respectively. This was the result of receiving increased
delivery orders during 2013 which allowed us to improve labor efficiency and to negotiate quantity discounts on procurement. Additionally,
we had two contracts which resulted in unfavorable adjustments of $708,000 and $448,000, respectively. These unfavorable adjustments
were the result of giving pricing discounts to customers, in exchange for increasing the term on certain long term agreements.
Lastly, we had one contract that had an unfavorable adjustment of $1,500,000, which was the result of excess labor and material
costs incurred for rework and tooling adjustments. No other individual favorable or unfavorable changes in estimates for the year
ended December 31, 2013 were material.</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0.5in">For the year ended December 31, 2012 we had one contract
which resulted in a favorable adjustment of $672,000, which was the result of the reversal of an accrual for expected excess scrap
costs which were never incurred. Additionally, we had one contract, the A-10, that had an unfavorable adjustment of $1,400,000,
which was the result of excess labor and material costs incurred for rework and tooling adjustments. No other individual favorable
or unfavorable changes in estimates for the year ended December 31, 2012 were material.</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">Securities and Exchange Commission</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-indent: 0.5in">Finally, the Company acknowledges the following:</P>

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comments regarding the information in this letter, kindly contact the undersigned.</P>

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    <TD STYLE="width: 50%">Sincerely,</TD></TR>
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    <TD>Vincent Palazzolo</TD></TR>
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