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LOBBYING REPORT |
Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995 (Section 5) - All Filers Are Required to Complete This Page
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City | ARLINGTON |
State | VA |
Zip Code | 22203 |
Country | USA |
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TYPE OF REPORT | 8. Year | 2016 |
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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: Mike Whelan |
Date | 4/19/2016 2:16:17 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
H.R. 2289: Commodity End User Relief Act, legislation to reauthorize the Commodity Futures Trading Commission operations, including certain end-user exemptions from requirements under the Dodd-Frank Act.
P.L. 111-203: Issues related to the implementation of The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010.
Issues related to the potential impact of the Administrations rulemaking on the Clean Power Plan on the Rural Utilities Service loan portfolio.
Issues related to rural broadband deployment including electric co-ops pole attachment rates.
Draft Senate legislation to reauthorize the Commodity Futures Trading Commission operations, including certain end-user exemptions from requirements under the Dodd-Frank Act.
Issues related to certain Regional Transmission Organization exemptions from Commodity Futures Trading Commission regulations.
17. House(s) of Congress and Federal agencies Check if None
U.S. SENATE, U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
18. Name of each individual who acted as a lobbyist in this issue area
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Cassady |
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Embrey |
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Tate |
Bennett |
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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 BAN
16. Specific lobbying issues
P.L.111-203: Issues related to the implementation of The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010.
H.R. 4575: The Improving Rural Access to Power Act. Legislation that includes a clarification allowing Federal Home Loan (FHLB) investments in National Rural Utilities Cooperative Finance Corporation (CFC) securities.
17. House(s) of Congress and Federal agencies Check if None
U.S. SENATE, U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
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
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
Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act.
Issues pertaining to limitation language on any changes to the definition of waters under federal control, which includes the Waters of the U.S. rule.
Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act. Issues pertaining providing funding for the Surface Transportation Board.
Department of State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations Act.
Issues related to funding for the Cooperative Development Program.
Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act.
Issues related to the appropriations for the RUS Electric Loan Program, the Guaranteed Underwriter Program, and the Rural Economic Development Loan & Grant Program and the Rural Energy Savings Program and title 6205 of H.R. 2642: The Agricultural Act of 2014 (P.L.113-79)
Issues related to the potential impact of the Administrations rulemaking on the Clean Power Plan on the Rural Utilities Service loan portfolio.
Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act.
Interior Appropriations Act - Issues related to funding restrictions for lesser prairie chicken, sage grouse, northern long ear bat.
Issues related to the EPA's final coal combustion residuals regulation.
Issues related to the Administration's rulemaking on the "Clean Power Plan" and it's potential impact on the RUS loan portfolio.
Issues related to the Administration's proposal to lower the National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) for Ozone pursuant to the Clean Air Act.
Issues related to S. 2446, the Improving Coal Combustion Residuals Act of 2016 & H.R. 1734, The Improving Coal Combustion Residuals Act of 2015
17. House(s) of Congress and Federal agencies Check if None
U.S. SENATE, U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
18. Name of each individual who acted as a lobbyist in this issue area
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Gutierrez |
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Wynn |
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Tate |
Bennett |
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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
Issues related to Clean Air Act enforcement relating to GHG regulations and new source performance standards for power plants.
Issues associated with the Administrations rulemaking on the Waters of the U.S. regulatory proposal.
Issues related to Clean Water Act Enforcement.
17. House(s) of Congress and Federal agencies Check if None
U.S. SENATE, U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
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
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 DIS
16. Specific lobbying issues
H.R.1471: FEMA Disaster Assistance Reform Act of 2015
Issues related to policies, processes and programs for electric cooperatives' access and application to Federal Emergency Management Disaster Relief Funds.
Issues related to emergency response vehicle size.
Issues related to planning, preparing, mitigating and recovery from incidents.
17. House(s) of Congress and Federal agencies Check if None
U.S. SENATE, U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
18. Name of each individual who acted as a lobbyist in this issue area
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Gutierrez |
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Stephen |
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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
H.R. 8: The North American Energy Security and Infrastructure Act of 2015
Provisions to streamline the interstate natural gas pipeline permitting process; require a reliability impact statement involving major regulation; address cybersecurity needs; establish liability protections regarding voluntary and mandatory compliance with Department of Energy emergency orders and a reliability impact statement; repeal of existing statutory language requiring new Federal buildings and those that undergo major renovations to end the purchase of fossil fuel-based electricity by 2030. Provisions to streamline hydropower relicensing process. Provisions related to energy savings performance process. Amendments to allow for vegetation management in utility rights of way.
S.2446: The Improving Coal Combustion Residuals Regulation Act of 2015
Legislation to provide nonhazardous regulation of coal combustion residuals.
Issues or amendments related to a Strategic Transformer Reserve program, and for other purposes.
H.R.2358: Electricity Reliability and Forest Protection Act
A bill to facilitate vegetation management in utility rights-of-way.
H.R.3303, S.1891: Coal Royalty Fairness and Communities Investment Act, Coal Royalty Fairness Act of 2015
H.R.2576: The TSCA Modernization Act of 2015
Provision to permit continued use of existing electrical transformers.
P.L. 114-11: Energy Efficiency Improvement Act of 2015
Title II of the bill includes provisions to improve and promote energy efficiency in buildings, and to permit the manufacture of large capacity (exceeding 75 gallons) electric resistance water heaters for demand response programs.
Implementation Issues with P.L. 114-11: Energy Efficiency Improvement Act of 2015
S.2012: The Energy Policy Modernization Act of 2015
Provisions to streamline the interstate natural gas pipeline permitting process; require a reliability impact statement involving major regulation; address cybersecurity needs; language establishing (a) liability protections regarding emergency orders and (b) a reliability impact statement that are important to co-ops were addressed; a report to be prepared to study resource adequacy at regional transmission organizations and wholesale electricity markets including the ability of co-ops to self-supply their service territory load; repeal existing statutory language requiring new Federal buildings and those that experience major renovations to end the purchase of fossil fuel-based electricity by 2030.
Provisions to streamline hydropower relicensing process.
Provisions related to energy savings performance process.
Amendments to allow for vegetation management in utility rights of way.
S.697: Frank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act
A bill to amend the Toxic Substances Control Act.
S.869: All-of-the-Above Federal Building Energy Conservation Act of 2015
This bill would repeal statutory language requiring the federal government to refrain from purchasing fossil fuel-based electricity by 2030 and replace the language with new energy efficiency requirements.
S.1221: Bulk-Power System Reliability Impact Statement Act
Allows a reliability coordinator to prepare a reliability impact statement regarding a major federal regulation that may significantly affect the reliable operation of the bulk-power system.
S.1222: Continuity of Electric Capacity Resources Act
S.1241: Enhanced Grid Security Act of 2015
A bill to require DOE to create a cyber-resilience program, conduct a study on ES-ISAC (funding mechanism) and designate DOE as SSA for cyber in energy sector. Authorizes 100 million per fiscal year 2017-2022.
S.1405: Severe Fuel Supply Emergency Response Act of 2015
Issues related to cyber and physical security for electric utilities.
Issues related to Senate & House Comprehensive Energy Packages.
Issues related to the Administrations proposal to lower the National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) for Ozone pursuant to the Clean Air Act.
Issues related to permitting/utility access to federal electricity rights-of-way for vegetation management and routine maintenance.
Issues related to Department of Energy fossil energy funding.
Issues related to the implementation of H.R. 22: Fixing America's Surface Transportation (FAST) Act (P.L. 114-94).
H.R. 2984: Fair Ratepayer Accountability, Transparency, and Efficiency Standards Act
17. House(s) of Congress and Federal agencies Check if None
U.S. SENATE, U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
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
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
H.R.2358: Electricity Reliability and Forest Protection Act
A bill to facilitate vegetation management in utility rights-of-way.
H.R. 2749, S.1657: Dams Accountability, Maintenance, and Safety Act
A bill to allow for expansion and construction at existing Bureau of Reclamation facilities in order to obtain additional project benefits.
H.R.2822: Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2016
Limitation on use of funds to implement or enforce threatened species listing of the Lesser Prairie Chicken and Greater Sage Grouse.
S.848: Resolving Environmental and Grid Reliability Conflicts Act
The bill would protect electric utilities from liability associated from Environmental Protection Act penalties and third party lawsuits where the Department of Energy issues an emergency, must-run order and voluntary or mandatory compliance with the order results in Clean Air Act or other environmental law violations.
S.1645: Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2016
Lobbied funding restrictions for EPA for enforcing its carbon pollution proposal under 111 (d) of the Clean Air Act on states that have failed to submit a state plan under the Clean Power Plan (Sec. 417); EPAs Waters of the U.S. Proposal (Section 421); U.S. Fish and Wildlife proposed rule on the Sage-Grouse under the Endangered Species Act. (Section 119); and U.S. Fish and Wildlife to enforce its decision to list the lesser prairie chicken as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act. (Moran Amendment).
Issues related to permitting/utility access to federal electricity rights of way for vegetation management and routine maintenance.
Issues related to reforming the Endangered Species Act.
17. House(s) of Congress and Federal agencies Check if None
U.S. SENATE, U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
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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 FOR
16. Specific lobbying issues
Department of State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations Act.
Issues related to the funding of the Cooperative Development Program in the FY 2016 State and Foreign Operations.
S.2152: Electrify Africa Act of 2015 (Sec. 3) This bill states that it is U.S. policy to partner with the governments of sub-Saharan African countries, international financial institutions, and African regional economic communities, cooperatives, and private sectors to provide electric access in Sub-Saharan Africa.
17. House(s) of Congress and Federal agencies Check if None
U.S. SENATE, U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
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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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15. General issue area code HCR
16. Specific lobbying issues
H.R.879: Ax the Tax on Middle Class Americans' Health Plans Act
Repealing ACA 40% excise tax on group health plans.
H.R. 2050: Middle Class Health Benefits Tax Repeal Act of 2015
Repealing ACA 40% excise tax on group health plans.
H.R.2712: Commonsense Reporting and Verification Act of 2015
Providing flexibility for required employer reporting requirements of ACA.
S.2045: Middle Class Health Care Benefits Tax Repeal Act of 2015
Legislation to repeal the 40% ACA Excise Tax (aka the Cadillac Tax).
S.2075: American Worker Health Care Tax Relief Act of 2015
DRAFT bills to repeal and amend ACA 40% excise tax on group health plans
Issues related to Patient Choice, Affordability, Responsibility, and Empowerment Act (unnumbered; ACA replacement)
17. House(s) of Congress and Federal agencies Check if None
U.S. SENATE, U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
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15. General issue area code HOM
16. Specific lobbying issues
Issues related to the implementation of S.754: Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act of 2015.
H.R.1073: CIPA
To amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to secure critical infrastructure against electromagnetic threats.
H.R.1735: Fiscal Year 2016 National Defense Authorization Act
Issues on cybersecurity.
H.R.2402: Protecting Critical Infrastructure Act
S.1846: Amend Homeland Security Act to secure infrastructure against electromagnetic threats - Critical Infrastructure Protection Act
H.R. 22, Fixing America's Surface Transportation Act (FAST Act)Implementation around
critical electric infrastructure information (CEII)protection and the strategic transformer reserve program
Issues related to the physical and cyber security of the electric grid including electromagnetic pulses and geomagnetic disturbance.
Issues related to the Department of Homeland Security programs and resources available to or beneficial for critical infrastructure.
Issues related to clarification of the SAFETY Act in regards to significant cyber security incidents.
Draft legislation related to research and development issues in the electric sector.
Draft legislation related to space weather.
Issues related to critical infrastructure security including public/private and cross sector partnerships, roles, responsibilities, education, engagement, gaps and security postures.
Issues related to data privacy and protection.
17. House(s) of Congress and Federal agencies Check if None
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15. General issue area code INT
16. Specific lobbying issues
Issues related to critical infrastructural protection, including information sharing processes, protections, responsibilities and public/private partnerships.
Issues related to data privacy and protection.
17. House(s) of Congress and Federal agencies Check if None
U.S. SENATE, U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
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15. General issue area code RET
16. Specific lobbying issues
H.R.557, S.266: Retirement Security Act of 2015
Issues regarding multiple-employer plans.
Draft Tax Reform proposals related to changes in retirement tax policy.
Draft Legislation on PBGC Premiums
17. House(s) of Congress and Federal agencies Check if None
U.S. SENATE, U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
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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
H.R.3651: Positive Train Control Enforcement and Implementation Act of 2015
Extends implementation of positive train control on railroad locomotives which will allow freight railroads to deliver coal to power-plants.
S.808: Surface Transportation Board Reauthorization Act of 2015
Issues affecting captive shippers.
S.853: Rail Shipper Fairness Act of 2015
Issues affecting captive shippers.
S.1405: Severe Fuel Supply Emergency Response Act of 2015
S.1634: Railroad Antitrust Enforcement Act of 2015
Issues related to the Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 2016.
17. House(s) of Congress and Federal agencies Check if None
U.S. SENATE, U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
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15. General issue area code SMB
16. Specific lobbying issues
H.R.527: Small Business Regulatory Flexibility Improvements Act of 2015
To ensure treatment of co-ops as small businesses for regulatory purposes.
Issues related to the Administrations rulemaking on Waters of the U.S and its effects on small business.
Issues related to the Clean Air Act enforcement relating to the GHG regulations and their effects on small business.
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U.S. SENATE, U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
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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
H.R.636: America's Small Business Tax Relief Act of 2015
Issues related to tax provisions expiring in 2016 (tax extenders).
H.R.879: Ax the Tax on Middle Class Americans' Health Plans Act
Repealing ACA 40% excise tax on group health plans.
H.R.2050: Middle Class Health Benefits Tax Repeal Act of 2015
Repealing ACA 40% excise tax on group health plans.
H.R.2584: Business Activity Tax Simplification Act of 2015
S.2045: Middle Class Health Care Benefits Tax Repeal Act of 2015
Legislation to repeal the 40% ACA Excise Tax (aka the Cadillac Tax).
S.2075: American Worker Health Care Tax Relief Act of 2015
Legislation to repeal the 40% ACA Excise Tax (aka the Cadillac Tax).
Issues around tax reform as it impacts electric cooperatives.
Issues related to the Nuclear Production Tax Credit.
Seeking an extension of renewable tax credits specifically for Sec. 25(D)and 48(C)of the IRC as related to geothermal energy.
H.R. 4622; Carbon Capture Act
This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code, with respect to the tax credit for carbon dioxide sequestration, to: (1) make such credit permanent after 2015; (2) increase such credit after 2024 for a qualified facility originally placed in service after December 31, 2015; (3) allow such credit to a person who disposes of, or uses as a tertiary injectant, the carbon dioxide; and (4) modify the definition of "qualified facility" for purposes of eligibility for such credit to require not less than 150,000 metric tons (currently, 500,000 metric tons) to be captured at such a facility during the taxable year.
S. 1285; Coal with Carbon Capture and Sequestration Act of 2015
This bill authorizes the Department of Energy to enter into 25-year binding contracts that provide price stabilization support for electricity generated at either an electric generation unit (that uses coal-based generation technology) or carbon dioxide captured from such unit and subsequently sold to a purchaser for either crude oil recovery or other commercial market purposes.
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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
Draft legislation in the House Energy & Commerce Committee to encourage broadband deployment.
-Provisions related to protect the Electric Cooperative exemption from FCC pole attachment regulation
Issues related to rural broadband deployment and implementation of the Connect America Fund Phase II at the FCC
17. House(s) of Congress and Federal agencies Check if None
U.S. SENATE, U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
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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 UTI
16. Specific lobbying issues
H.R.2358: Electricity Reliability and Forest Protection Act
A bill to enhance reliability of the electric grid and reduce the threat of wildfires to and from electric transmission and distribution facilities on federal lands by facilitating vegetation management on such lands.
Issues related to permitting/utility access to federal electricity rights of way for vegetation management and routine maintenance.
17. House(s) of Congress and Federal agencies Check if None
U.S. SENATE, U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
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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 TRA
16. Specific lobbying issues
H.R.3038: Highway and Transportation Funding Act, Part II
S.1647: Developing a Reliable and Innovative Vision for the Economy Act
H.R. 22, Fixing Americas Surface Transportation (FAST) Act (P.L. 114-94). The bill includes language to protect co-ops that voluntary adhere to DOE emergency orders from liability associated with EPA penalties and third party law suits.
H.R. 4441: Aviation Innovation, Reform, and Reauthorization Act of 2016;
S. 2658: Federal Aviation Administration Reauthorization Act of 2016
Legislation pertaining to unmanned aerial vehicle uses for electric utility applications.
17. House(s) of Congress and Federal agencies Check if None
U.S. SENATE, U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
18. Name of each individual who acted as a lobbyist in this issue area
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Wynn |
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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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