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LOBBYING REPORT |
Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995 (Section 5) - All Filers Are Required to Complete This Page
2. Address
Address1 | 1875 Connecticut Avenue, NW |
Address2 | Suite 1200 |
City | Washington |
State | DC |
Zip Code | 20009 |
Country | USA |
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5. Senate ID# 3184-12
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6. House ID# 308500000
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TYPE OF REPORT | 8. Year | 2010 |
Q1 (1/1 - 3/31) | Q2 (4/1 - 6/30) | Q3 (7/1 - 9/30) | Q4 (10/1 - 12/31) |
9. Check if this filing amends a previously filed version of this report
10. Check if this is a Termination Report | Termination Date | |
11. No Lobbying Issue Activity |
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12. Lobbying | 13. Organizations | ||||||||
INCOME relating to lobbying activities for this reporting period was: | EXPENSE relating to lobbying activities for this reporting period were: | ||||||||
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Provide a good faith estimate, rounded to the nearest $10,000, of all lobbying related income for the client (including all payments to the registrant by any other entity for lobbying activities on behalf of the client). | 14. REPORTING Check box to indicate expense accounting method. See instructions for description of options. | ||||||||
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Reporting amounts using LDA definitions only
Method B. Reporting amounts under section 6033(b)(8) of the Internal Revenue Code Method C. Reporting amounts under section 162(e) of the Internal Revenue Code |
Signature | Digitally Signed By: Joy Ditto, Director of Legislative Affairs |
Date | 05/13/2011 |
LOBBYING ACTIVITY. Select as many codes as necessary to reflect the general issue areas in which the registrant engaged in lobbying on behalf of the client during the reporting period. Using a separate page for each code, provide information as requested. Add additional page(s) as needed.
15. General issue area code UTI
16. Specific lobbying issues
Electricity markets issues, in particular related to Regional Transmission Organizations (RTOs) and FERC oversight of such entities -- in particular, advocating for the introduction of legislation to increase data transparency in these markets. Cyber security legislation, including H.R. 2165, H.R. 2195, and S. 1462, as well as draft legislation in the House and Senate. Requests for additional funding for programs at DOE and EPA that fund utility programs, including Energy Star, REPI, Weatherization, loan
guarantees for new nuclear and other new technologies, funding for the federal Power Marketing Administrations, the clean coal power initiative, FutureGen, Navajo Electricification, and the FERC.
17. House(s) of Congress and Federal agencies Check if None
U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, U.S. SENATE, Energy - Dept of, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
18. Name of each individual who acted as a lobbyist in this issue area
First Name | Last Name | Suffix | Covered Official Position (if applicable) | New |
James J. |
Nipper |
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Joy |
Ditto |
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James A. |
Williams |
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Corry |
Marshall |
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Amy |
Hille |
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19. Interest of each foreign entity in the specific issues listed on line 16 above Check if None
LOBBYING ACTIVITY. Select as many codes as necessary to reflect the general issue areas in which the registrant engaged in lobbying on behalf of the client during the reporting period. Using a separate page for each code, provide information as requested. Add additional page(s) as needed.
15. General issue area code TAX
16. Specific lobbying issues
Support for Clean Renewable Energy Bonds (including additional volume cap as well as allowing them to be used like Build America Bonds); Build America Bonds extension and revision; public power inclusion in the Section 1603 grant program of the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act, transferable tax credit for public power use for new nuclear facilities; use of tax-exempt bonds for municipal purposes, including modifying the private use restrictions from the 1986 Tax Act; clean coal tax-credit bonds
17. House(s) of Congress and Federal agencies Check if None
U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, U.S. SENATE, Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Treasury - Dept of
18. Name of each individual who acted as a lobbyist in this issue area
First Name | Last Name | Suffix | Covered Official Position (if applicable) | New |
Amy |
Hille |
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Joy |
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Corry |
Marshall |
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James J. |
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19. Interest of each foreign entity in the specific issues listed on line 16 above Check if None
LOBBYING ACTIVITY. Select as many codes as necessary to reflect the general issue areas in which the registrant engaged in lobbying on behalf of the client during the reporting period. Using a separate page for each code, provide information as requested. Add additional page(s) as needed.
15. General issue area code RRR
16. Specific lobbying issues
Support for Surface Transportation Board reform legislation, S. 2889, and removal of railroad antitrust exemptions (S. 146/H.R. 233); support for reform of rail shipping rates and practices in general.
17. House(s) of Congress and Federal agencies Check if None
U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, U.S. SENATE, Surface Transportation Board (STB)
18. Name of each individual who acted as a lobbyist in this issue area
First Name | Last Name | Suffix | Covered Official Position (if applicable) | New |
Corry |
Marshall |
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James J. |
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19. Interest of each foreign entity in the specific issues listed on line 16 above Check if None
LOBBYING ACTIVITY. Select as many codes as necessary to reflect the general issue areas in which the registrant engaged in lobbying on behalf of the client during the reporting period. Using a separate page for each code, provide information as requested. Add additional page(s) as needed.
15. General issue area code CAW
16. Specific lobbying issues
Climate change issues generally, and all of Title III in particular as well as draft legislation being crafted by Senators Kerry, Graham and Lieberman, Senator Murkowski's "disapproval resolution," and Senator Rockefeller and Congressman Rahall's two-year delay of EPA's authority to regulate greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act. EPA's "tailering rule" to regulate GHG emissions, its coal ash waste proposed rule, and its GHG reporting rule.
17. House(s) of Congress and Federal agencies Check if None
U.S. SENATE, U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
18. Name of each individual who acted as a lobbyist in this issue area
First Name | Last Name | Suffix | Covered Official Position (if applicable) | New |
James J. |
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Joy |
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James A. |
Williams |
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19. Interest of each foreign entity in the specific issues listed on line 16 above Check if None
LOBBYING ACTIVITY. Select as many codes as necessary to reflect the general issue areas in which the registrant engaged in lobbying on behalf of the client during the reporting period. Using a separate page for each code, provide information as requested. Add additional page(s) as needed.
15. General issue area code RET
16. Specific lobbying issues
Support of reform of pension laws related to definted benefit plans, including H.R. 3936.
17. House(s) of Congress and Federal agencies Check if None
U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, U.S. SENATE
18. Name of each individual who acted as a lobbyist in this issue area
First Name | Last Name | Suffix | Covered Official Position (if applicable) | New |
Amy |
Hille |
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19. Interest of each foreign entity in the specific issues listed on line 16 above Check if None
LOBBYING ACTIVITY. Select as many codes as necessary to reflect the general issue areas in which the registrant engaged in lobbying on behalf of the client during the reporting period. Using a separate page for each code, provide information as requested. Add additional page(s) as needed.
15. General issue area code FIN
16. Specific lobbying issues
Support of legislation to regulate over-the-counter derivatives markets, including a provision to mandate clearing of certain transactions in those markets, but with an exemption for energy end-users such as is included in H.R. 4173, and support for clarifying the regulatory role of the FERC vs. the CFTC related to the regulation of hedging instruments in Regional Transmission Organization electricity markets.
17. House(s) of Congress and Federal agencies Check if None
U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, U.S. SENATE, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC)
18. Name of each individual who acted as a lobbyist in this issue area
First Name | Last Name | Suffix | Covered Official Position (if applicable) | New |
Amy |
Hille |
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Joy |
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19. Interest of each foreign entity in the specific issues listed on line 16 above Check if None
LOBBYING ACTIVITY. Select as many codes as necessary to reflect the general issue areas in which the registrant engaged in lobbying on behalf of the client during the reporting period. Using a separate page for each code, provide information as requested. Add additional page(s) as needed.
15. General issue area code ENG
16. Specific lobbying issues
Wholesale electricity markets, including those in Regional Transmission Organizations regulated by FERC; in opposition to allocations of emissions allowances to merchant coal generators in H.R. 2454 and S. 1733 and the implications of this allocation in RTO-run wholesale electricity markets; electric transmission issues generally, including those in H.R. 2454 and S. 1462; the Clean Energy Development Administration (CEDA) provision in H.R. 2454 and S. 1462 and renewable electricity standards in those bills.
17. House(s) of Congress and Federal agencies Check if None
U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, U.S. SENATE, Energy - Dept of
18. Name of each individual who acted as a lobbyist in this issue area
First Name | Last Name | Suffix | Covered Official Position (if applicable) | New |
Joy |
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James J. |
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James A. |
Williams |
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Corry |
Marshall |
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19. Interest of each foreign entity in the specific issues listed on line 16 above Check if None
LOBBYING ACTIVITY. Select as many codes as necessary to reflect the general issue areas in which the registrant engaged in lobbying on behalf of the client during the reporting period. Using a separate page for each code, provide information as requested. Add additional page(s) as needed.
15. General issue area code BUD
16. Specific lobbying issues
Support for the following programs: Renewable Energy Production Incentive (DOE); Power Marketing Administrations (DOE); storage for high-level nuclear waste (DOE); loan guarantee program (DOE); Waterpower Progam (DOE); various energy conservation programs, including the weatherization program (DOE); Clean Coal Power Initiative (DOE); fuel cell R&D (DOE); various fuel and power system R&D programs (DOE); Navajo Electrification program (DOE); FERC funding; Energy Star (EPA);
Landfill Methane Outreach Program (EPA); Council on Environmental Quality (White House); Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP); Rural Utilities Service Rural Broadband Grants and Loans (USDA); Title IX programs (USDA); Department of Justice's Antitrust Division; and FTC funding.
17. House(s) of Congress and Federal agencies Check if None
U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, U.S. SENATE
18. Name of each individual who acted as a lobbyist in this issue area
First Name | Last Name | Suffix | Covered Official Position (if applicable) | New |
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Corry |
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James A. |
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19. Interest of each foreign entity in the specific issues listed on line 16 above Check if None
LOBBYING ACTIVITY. Select as many codes as necessary to reflect the general issue areas in which the registrant engaged in lobbying on behalf of the client during the reporting period. Using a separate page for each code, provide information as requested. Add additional page(s) as needed.
15. General issue area code TEC
16. Specific lobbying issues
Support for municipal provisions of broadband services; utility pole attachment regulations; FCC's "National Broadband Plan," smart-grid technologies and their relationship to telecommunications; spectrum issues.
17. House(s) of Congress and Federal agencies Check if None
U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, U.S. SENATE, Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
18. Name of each individual who acted as a lobbyist in this issue area
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19. Interest of each foreign entity in the specific issues listed on line 16 above Check if None
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AFFILIATED ORGANIZATIONS
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26. Name of each previously reported organization that is no longer affiliated with the registrant or client
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FOREIGN ENTITIES
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28. Name of each previously reported foreign entity that no longer owns, or controls, or is affiliated with the registrant, client or affiliated organization
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4 | 8 | 12 |