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LOBBYING REPORT |
Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995 (Section 5) - All Filers Are Required to Complete This Page
2. Address
| Address1 | 9711 Washingtonian Blvd |
Address2 | Suite 550 |
| City | Gaithersburg |
State | MD |
Zip Code | 20878 |
Country | USA |
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5. Senate ID# 40002018-87
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6. House ID# 397200002
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| TYPE OF REPORT | 8. Year | 2023 |
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 |
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11. No Lobbying Issue Activity |
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| 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 |
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| Signature | Digitally Signed By: Timothy Cansler |
Date | 4/19/2023 6:07:23 PM |
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 AGR
16. Specific lobbying issues
Support continuation and increased funding for Plant Protection Act Section 7721 Pest and Disease Management programs in the 2023 Farm Bill.
Issues relating to California programs announced for FY 2023 under the Plant Protection Act Section 7721 Pest and Disease Management programs. Also Total Number of Projects Suggested, Total Number of Project Funded in U.S.
Support authorization of National Agricultural Detector Dog Inspection program in the 2023 Farm Bill.
Issues relating to list of all reauthorization bills before the 118th Congress, including the 2023 Farm Bill.
Issues relating to communications between USDA-APHIS and DoD regarding conditions and needed improvements to the Medfly Preventative Release Programs Sterile Insect Release Facility at Joint Forces Training Base, Los Alamitos, California.
Issues relating to USDA Office of Inspector General (OIG) report on FY 2018 and 2019 Plant Protection Act (PPA) Section 7721, Plant Pest and Disease Management and Disaster Prevention Program (PPDMDPP) and the National Clean Plant Network (NCPN) Programs.
Issues relating to walnut industry-wide disaster caused by excessive heat and subsequent market collapse.
Issues relating to revisions to S. 3678 and HR 8432, the Beagle Brigade Act that expand the capacity, timing and logistics of training of canine inspections teams.
Issues relating to Glassy-wing Sharpshooter Program, the pest vector for Pierces Disease in grapes, in California.
Issues relating Wildlife Services program to eradicate feral swine in California.
Support improved federal coordination for regulatory development and implementation among the varying agencies with jurisdiction over industrial hemp and cannabis.
Issues relating to House-adopted Single Subject Bills rule.
17. House(s) of Congress and Federal agencies Check if None
Agriculture - Dept of (USDA), U.S. SENATE, U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Office of Management & Budget (OMB), U.S. Customs & Border Protection
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 |
Timothy |
Cansler |
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Assistant to Undersecretary, USDA
Assistant to Administrator, USDA |
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 ENV
16. Specific lobbying issues
Issues relating to how EPA Regions operate throughout the U.S. with other state lead agencies and local cooperators, especially as it relates to pesticide notifications to the public.
Issues relating to California Sustainable Pest Management (SPM) Working Group and Roadmap to 2050.
Issues relating to EPA Farm, Ranch and Rural Communities Federal Advisory Committee Charges including:
Water management and reuse.
Alternative manure management systems & methane reduction practices.
Improved quantification of greenhouse gas emissions reductions from low-carbon biofuels.
Climate and water quality co-benefits from nutrient management practices.
Strategies to cut by one-half food loss and waste by 2030
Issues relating to proposed California regulations on potential exposure to the pesticide 1,3- dichloropropene (1,3-D).
Support including in the 2023 Farm Bill reauthorization language under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) that codifies state oversight of pesticides at the state level.
Support reforms to National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) including categorical exclusions that should be aggregated to allow federal agencies to glean potential efficiencies from other agencys historically used categorical exclusions.
Issues relating to how EPQ-HQ and EPA Regions equitably apply oversight to investigative priorities in state lead agencies.
Issues relating to definitions in Waters of the U.S. rule including other waters, tributary and adjacent to.
Issues relating to oversight of EPA grant programs to Environmental Justice organizations.
Issues relating to the current number of identified Integrated Pest Management control projects to reduce hazardous materials identified throughout national forests in California, and the number of National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) assessments completed for these activities and number of NEPAs remaining to be completed.
17. House(s) of Congress and Federal agencies Check if None
U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, U.S. SENATE, Agriculture - Dept of (USDA), U.S. Forest Service, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Office of Management & Budget (OMB)
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 |
Tim |
Cansler |
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Assistant to Undersecretary, USDA Assistant to Administrator, USDA |
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 TRD
16. Specific lobbying issues
Issues relating to programs that control European Grapevine Moth and Light Brown Apple Moth and trade contingencies with Canada and Mexico.
Issues relating to the issuance of phytosanitary trade certificates.
17. House(s) of Congress and Federal agencies Check if None
Agriculture - Dept of (USDA), U.S. SENATE, U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Office of Management & Budget (OMB)
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 |
Tim |
Cansler |
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Assistant to Undersecretary, USDA Assistant to Administrator, USDA |
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
Issues relating to FY 2024 Budget Request for National Institute for Standards and Technology that includes a $5 million Measurement Services Modernization initiative that includes Physical Measurement Laboratory which houses the Office of Weights and Measures and Calibration Services program.
Support authorized level of funding in the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (Section 40803, Public Law 117-58) that increases pace and scale of vegetation treatments that includes controlling unwanted non-native vegetation such as invasive weed species that, when left unmanaged, have the effect of increasing fire intensity, rate of spread and the number of annual acres of forests burned.
Support adequate funding for U.S. Forest Service Wildland Fire Management Hazardous Fuels Management program.
Issues relating to breakdown of programs under FY 2023 Specialty Crop Pest appropriations.
Issues relating to California County contributions for pest and disease management activities.
Issues relating to California County contributions for pesticide use enforcement programs.
Support congressional adoption of 4% increase in Specialty Crop Pest appropriations in FY 2024 matching the average congressional increases in the past five fiscal years.
Issues relating to the annual discretionary funding for National Agricultural Detector Dog Inspection program.
Support adequate funding for continuing eradication and control activities for the invasive species nutria at the scope and scale necessary for successful eradication in FY 2023 Consolidated Appropriations Act (PL 117-328) and forthcoming FY 2024 appropriations.
Support adequate funding for Glassy-wing Sharpshooter Program, the pest vector for Pierces Disease in grapes, in California.
Support adequate funding for the Fruit Fly Exclusion and Detection program in California.
Issues relating to (April 2023) baseline that will be used to score legislative proposals for the 2023 Farm Bill.
Support adequate funding for staffing of Agricultural Specialists and canine inspection teams at Custom Border Protection.
Issues relating to Agricultural Quarantine Inspections (AQI) User Fees and sufficient user fee collections for FY 2024 post-COVID.
Support Wildlife Service programs and increasing federal portion of federal - county cost share for implementing Wildlife Service programs in California.
Support needed facility improvements at the Medfly Preventative Release Programs Sterile Insect Release Facility in Los Alamitos, California.
Issues relating to USDA-APHIS Wildlife Services resources to California to help counties comply with California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA).
17. House(s) of Congress and Federal agencies Check if None
U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (USFWS), U.S. SENATE, Congressional Budget Office (CBO), Office of Management & Budget (OMB), U.S. Forest Service, U.S. Customs & Border Protection, Natl Institute of Standards & Technology (NIST)
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 |
Timothy |
Cansler |
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Assistant to Undersecretary, USDA Assistant to Administrator, USDA |
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 HOM
16. Specific lobbying issues
Issues relating to capacity and through-put of USDA National Detector Dog Training Center for increasing demand of canine inspections teams for CBP and States.
17. House(s) of Congress and Federal agencies Check if None
U.S. Customs & Border Protection
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 |
Timothy |
Cansler |
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Assistant to Undersecretary, Assistant to Administrator, USDA |
19. Interest of each foreign entity in the specific issues listed on line 16 above Check if None
Information Update Page - Complete ONLY where registration information has changed.
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LOBBYIST UPDATE
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AFFILIATED ORGANIZATIONS
25. Add the following affiliated organization(s)
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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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CONVICTIONS DISCLOSURE
29. Have any of the lobbyists listed on this report been convicted in a Federal or State Court of an offense involving bribery,
extortion, embezzlement, an illegal kickback, tax evasion, fraud, a conflict of interest, making a false statement, perjury, or money laundering?
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