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LOBBYING REPORT

Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995 (Section 5) - All Filers Are Required to Complete This Page

1. Registrant Name Organization/Lobbying Firm Self Employed Individual
National Cotton Council

2. Address

Address1
P.O. BOX 2995
 Address2
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City
Cordova
 State
TN
 Zip Code
38088-2995
 Country
USA

3. Principal place of business (if different than line 2)

City
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State
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Zip Code
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4a. Contact Name b. Telephone Number c. E-mail
​Mr.
​Drew Davis
​9012749030
​ddavis@cotton.org
5. Senate ID#
​27571-12
7. Client Name Self Check if client is a state or local government or instrumentality
​National Cotton Council
6. House ID#
​303760000
TYPE OF REPORT 8. Year
​2018
 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
INCOME OR EXPENSES - YOU MUST complete either Line 12 or Line 13
12. Lobbying 13. Organizations
INCOME relating to lobbying activities for this reporting period was: EXPENSE relating to lobbying activities for this reporting period were:
Less than $5,000
Less than $5,000
$5,000 or more $
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$5,000 or more $
​279,000.00
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.
Method A. 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: Drew Davis
 Date
10/22/2018 2:15:46 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

Meetings with Congress, USTR and USDA regarding trade policy issues, including NAFTA, China cotton import policy, and WTO

Issues surrounding non-farmer owned cotton gins and cottonseed storage under Food Safety and Modernization Act regulations

U.S. Department of Transportations Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration regulatory guidance to define exemptions and transportation for agricultural commodities

USDA-FSA implementation of the Seed Cotton Program provisions and agricultural disaster program for 2017 hurricane losses

Comments to USDA-APHIS Regulatory Analysis and Development regarding Docket Number APHIS-2017-0073: Cotton Genetically Engineered for Resistance to HPPD-Inhibitor Herbicides (e.g., Isoxaflutole) and Glyphosate; Transformation Event GHB811

Participation in comments from the Coalition for Safe, Affordable Food to USDA-AMS regarding Docket Number AMS-TM-17-0050 - Proposed Rule for National Bioengineered Food Disclosure Standard

Participation with other agricultural organizations in a letter to USDA-AMS regarding Docket Number AMS-TM-17-0050, Proposed Rule - National Bioengineered Food Disclosure Standard

H.R. 1029, Pesticide Registration Improvement Extension Act of 2017

H.R. 4881, Precision Agriculture Connectivity Act of 2018

S. 2343, Precision Agriculture Connectivity Act of 2018

2018 Farm Bill Conference Committee

FY 2019 Agricultural Appropriations

2017 Wildfires and Hurricanes Indemnity Program

Participated in a meeting with USDA-RMA regarding the 2017 STAX program and the Yield Exclusion provision

USDAs Tariff Mitigation Packages Market Facilitation Program and Agricultural Trade Promotion Program

Comments to EPAs Office of Pesticide Policy regarding Docket Number EPA-HQ-OPP-2018-0141 - National Marine Fisheries Services Biological Opinion for the pesticides chlorpyrifos, diazinon, and malathion

Comments to USDA-APHIS regarding Docket Number APHIS-2018-0034 - Notice of Intent to Prepare an Environmental Impact Statement; Movement and Outdoor Use of Certain Genetically Engineered Organisms

Participation in a letter from the Coalition to Promote U.S. Agricultural Exports to the chairmen and ranking members of the House and Senate Agriculture Committees regarding funding in the 2018 Farm Bill for the Market Access Program and the Foreign Market Development Program

Participation in an agricultural coalition letter to the Senate Majority Leader and Minority Leader regarding nominations of Dawn DeBerry Stump and Dan Berkovitz as commissioners of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission

Comments to EPAs Office of Pesticide Programs regarding Docket Number EPA-HQ-OPP-2016-0416 - Pesticide Product Registrations: Applications for New Uses and New Active Ingredients (tolerances for residues of afidopyropen)

Comments to EPAs Office of Water regarding Docket Number EPA-HQ-OW-2017-0203 - Environmental Protection Agency and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Supplemental Notice of Proposed Rulemaking: Definition of Waters of the United States-Recodification of Preexisting Rule

Participation in the Water Advocacy Coalitions comments to EPAs Office of Water and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers regarding Docket Number EPA-HQ-OW-2017-0203 -Environmental Protection Agency and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Supplemental Notice of Proposed Rulemaking: Definition of Waters of the United States-Recodification of Preexisting Rule

Participation in an agricultural coalition letter to the Acting Administrator of EPA and the Assistant Secretary of the Army regarding Docket Number EPA-HQ-OW-2017-0203 - Environmental Protection Agency and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Supplemental Notice of Proposed Rulemaking: Definition of Waters of the United States-Recodification of Preexisting Rule

Participation in an agricultural coalition comments to the Acting Administrator of EPA and the Assistant Secretary of the Army regarding Docket Number EPA-HQ-OW-2017-0203 -Environmental Protection Agency and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Supplemental Notice of Proposed Rulemaking: Definition of Waters of the United States-Recodification of Preexisting Rule (to address the effect of the Supreme Courts decision in Solid Waste Agency of Northern Cook County v. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers)

Participation in a letter from the Pesticide Policy Coalition to the Chairmen and Ranking Members of the House and Senate Agriculture Committees regarding regulatory reforms in the Horticulture Title of the 2018 Farm Bill

Participation in an agricultural coalition letter to the U.S Trade Representative, Secretary of Commerce, USDA Secretary, and National Economic Council Director regarding NAFTA negotiations

Participation in a letter with 66 other cotton and related organizations to the chairmen and ranking members of the House and Senate Agriculture Committees regarding cotton industry priorities in the 2018 Farm Bill

Letter to the Chairman of the Senate Committee on the Environment and Public Works regarding the Endangered Species Act Amendments of 2018

Comments to EPAs Office of Science regarding Docket Number EPA-HQ-OA-2018-0259 - Strengthening Transparency in Regulatory Science

Comments to EPAs Office of Pesticide Programs regarding Docket Number EPA-HQ-OPP-2017-0720 - Registration Review: Draft Human and/or Ecological Risk Assessments for Several Pesticides: Notice of Availability (requesting 30-day extension on comment period)

Participation in a letter from agricultural and other organizations to the USDA Secretary and EPA Acting Administrator regarding the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit decision to order EPA to revoke all tolerances and registrations for chlorpyrifos

Individual letters to the EPA Deputy Assistant Administrator, EPA Associate Administrator, Acting Assistant Attorney General and Senior Advisor to the USDA Secretary regarding the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit decision to order EPA to revoke all tolerances and registrations for chlorpyrifos

Participation in educational programs with EPA Office Pesticide Programs officials and cotton producer leaders from Tennessee and Mississippi regarding auxin herbicides and weed control management practices

Participation in a letter with 25 other cotton organizations to the EPA Acting Administrator regarding continued registrations of the new formulations of dicamba

Participation in a Pesticide Policy Coalition letter to the EPA Acting Administrator regarding continued registrations of the new formulations of dicamba

Comments to USDA-APHIS regarding Docket Number APHIS-2017-0097 - Texas A&M AgriLife Research; Availability of a Draft Plant Pest Risk Assessment and Draft Environmental Assessment for Cotton Genetically Engineered for Ultra-low Gossypol Levels in the Cottonseed

H.R. 3608, Endangered Species Transparency and Reasonableness Act

H.R. 6345, Ensuring Meaningful Petition Outreach While Enhancing Rights of States Act of 2018

H.R. 6346, Weigh Habitats Locational Effects Act of 2018

H.R. 6355, Providing ESA Timing Improvements That Increase Opportunities for Nonlisting ACT of 2018

Comments to EPAs Office of Pesticide Programs regarding Docket Number EPA-HQ-OPP-2017-0720 - Registration Review: Draft Human and/or Ecological Risk Assessments for Several Pesticides: Notice of Availability (pertaining to acephate)

Comments to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service regarding Docket Number FWS-HQ-ES-2018-0009 - Endangered and Threatened Species: Interagency Cooperation

Comments to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service regarding Docket Number FWS-HQ-ES-2018-0007-0001 - Endangered and Threatened Species: Revision of Regulations for Prohibitions to Threatened Wildlife and Plants

Comments to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service regarding Docket No: FWS-HQ-ES-2018-0006. Endangered and Threatened Species: Listing Species and Designating Critical Habitat

Provided input for USDA-NASSs Agricultural Resource Management Survey - Cotton Production Practices Report for 2019

Issues related to the USDA-APHIS lifting of the pink bollworm domestic quarantine in Arizona, California, New Mexico and Texas.

Meeting with USDA-RMA officials regarding a bulletin issued to crop insurance providers and RMA field offices with details for emergency procedures for crops damaged by Hurricane Florence





Participation in meetings with USDA Cotton Warehouse Division regarding issues related to the flow of cotton

Participation in a meeting with USDA Under Secretary of Marketing and Regulatory Programs regarding issues related to the flow of cotton and phytosanitary trade barriers for cotton imports to Bangladesh

Provided input and examples to USDA-NASS regarding cottonseed price reporting on its gin survey

17. House(s) of Congress and Federal agencies Check if None

U.S. SENATE, U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Agriculture - Dept of (USDA), Commerce - Dept of (DOC), Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Food & Drug Administration (FDA), Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA), State - Dept of (DOS), Transportation - Dept of (DOT), U.S. Trade Representative (USTR), White House Office, Army - Dept of (Corps of Engineers)

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
Gary M.
Adams
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Robert Craig
Brown
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Sidney A.
Johnson
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Robbie
Minnich
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W. Harrison
Ashley
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Reece
Langley
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Jody
Campiche
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Steven L.
Hensley
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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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Information Update Page - Complete ONLY where registration information has changed.

20. Client new address

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Zip Code
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21. Client new principal place of business (if different than line 20)

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22. New General description of client’s business or activities

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LOBBYIST UPDATE

23. Name of each previously reported individual who is no longer expected to act as a lobbyist for the client

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ISSUE UPDATE

24. General lobbying issue that no longer pertains

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AFFILIATED ORGANIZATIONS

25. Add the following affiliated organization(s)

Internet Address:

Name Address Principal Place of Business
(city and state or country)
Street Address
City State/Province Zip Country
City
State Country

26. Name of each previously reported organization that is no longer affiliated with the registrant or client

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FOREIGN ENTITIES

27. Add the following foreign entities:

Name Address Principal place of business
(city and state or country) 		Amount of contribution for lobbying activities Ownership percentage in client
Street Address
City State/Province Country
City
State Country
%

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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