AMERICAN PUBLIC POWER ASSOCIATION for AMERICAN PUBLIC POWER ASSOCIATION
What was lobbied
11 issue areas, each in the filer's own words, with who lobbied on it and where.
Telecommunications TEC
Expressed concerns with provisions in draft broadband infrastructure bill regarding pole attachment and their potential impact on public power.
| Lobbyist | Covered position, as disclosed |
|---|---|
| DESMARIE M WATERHOUSE | — |
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities FIN
Supported H.R 2289, the Commodity End-User Relief Act that addresses the treatment of swaps with utility special entities. Lobbied in opposition to CFTC effort to allow private right of action on FERC-jurisdictional transactions.
| Lobbyist | Covered position, as disclosed |
|---|---|
| JOHN GODFREY | — |
Railroads RRR
Discussed the need to monitor implementation of S. 808, the Surface Transportation Board Re-authorization Act of 2015. Monitored S. 853, the Rail Shipper Fairness Act of 2015.
| Lobbyist | Covered position, as disclosed |
|---|---|
| AMY THOMAS | — |
Utilities UTI
Discussed the need to monitor implementation of H.R. 2029, the Cybersecurity Act of 2015, and H.R. 22, the Fixing Americas Surface Transportation Act. Discussed issues of importance to public power in H.R. 8, the North American Energy Security and Infrastructure Act of 2015, including provisions on capacity markets, grid security, distributed generation, energy efficiency, hydropower licensing reform, pipeline permitting, reliability, and geomagnetic disturbances/electromagnetic pulses. Discussed issues of importance to public power in S. 2012, the Energy Policy Modernization Act of 2015, including provisions on capacity markets, grid security, distributed generation, energy efficiency, hydropower licensing reform, pipeline permitting, and reliability. Lobbied in support of S. 2012. Discussed issues surrounding distributed generation and concerns with attempts to federalize what is a state/local jurisdictional issue. Advocated on the need for small utilities that are defined as small businesses under the Small Business Regulatory Enforcement Fairness Act to get appropriate consideration under any pending and future EPA and FERC regulations. Worked to ensure that S. 1536, the Senate companion bill to H.R. 527, includes language to fix Small Business Administration size standard issue. Expressed concerns about regional transmission organizations markets, including a proposed energy imbalance market and existing mandatory capacity markets. Encouraged oversight of FERC more generally. Advocated in favor of H.R 2984, the Fair RATES Act re: FERC regulations. Discussed DOEs Quadrennial Energy Review 1.2. Lobbied on S. 1846, the Critical Infrastructure Act of 2016/H.R. 1073, to amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to secure critical infrastructure against electromagnetic threats, and for other purposes. Sought to preserve the current NERC-FERC model for grid security regulations. Lobbied in support of protecting consumers interests in regional transmission organizations and independent system operator markets. Discussed implications of the expansion of the California ISO in the West for public power utilities.
| Lobbyist | Covered position, as disclosed |
|---|---|
| JOY DITTO | — |
| JOHN GODFREY | — |
| AMY THOMAS | — |
| CORY TOTH | — |
| DESMARIE M WATERHOUSE | — |
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code TAX
Supported the continued use of tax-exempt financing for municipal/public power purposes, and opposed provisions and legislation to tax municipal bonds. Lobbied in support of including a fix to the nuclear production tax credit in the tax title of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) bill -- H.R. 4441, Aviation Innovation, Reform, and Reauthorization Act/S. 2658 -- FAA Reauthorization. Also lobbied on the need to fix the nuclear production tax credit outside of FAA legislation. Lobbied on potential impact of Internal Revenue Service proposed regulation on the definition of political subdivision (Reg-129067-15.
| Lobbyist | Covered position, as disclosed |
|---|---|
| JOY DITTO | — |
| JOHN GODFREY | — |
| CORY TOTH | — |
| DESMARIE M WATERHOUSE | — |
Small Business SMB
Lobbied on provisions in H.R. 527/S.1536, the Regulatory Flexibility Improvements Act regarding definition of small governmental entities.
| Lobbyist | Covered position, as disclosed |
|---|---|
| JOY DITTO | — |
| JOHN GODFREY | — |
| DESMARIE M WATERHOUSE | — |
Budget/Appropriations BUD
Lobbied in support of environmental riders to H.R. 5055, Energy & Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2017.
| Lobbyist | Covered position, as disclosed |
|---|---|
| DESMARIE M WATERHOUSE | — |
Environment/Superfund ENV
Expressed support for efforts to update the Endangered Species Act. Expressed support for S. 2446, the Improving Coal Combustion Residuals Regulation Act of 2016 and House companion legislation -- H.R. 1734, the Improving Coal Combustion Residuals Regulation Act of 2015. Advocated in support of H.R. 2576 and S. 697 to update the Toxic Substance Control Act.
| Lobbyist | Covered position, as disclosed |
|---|---|
| CORY TOTH | — |
| DESMARIE M WATERHOUSE | — |
Aviation/Airlines/Airports AVI
Advocated in support of the use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) for utility related operations (Docket FAA-2015-0150). Advocated for H.R. 4441, the Aviation Innovation, Reform, and Reauthorization Act and S. 2658, Federal Aviation Administration Reauthorization re: unmanned aircraft systems.
| Lobbyist | Covered position, as disclosed |
|---|---|
| JOHN GODFREY | — |
Clean Air and Water (quality) CAW
Discussed APPAs comments to EPA on its proposed Federal Plan and model trading rule (EPA-HQ-OAR-2013-0602). Also discussed the impact of the final Clean Power Plan on public power. Expressed support for H.R. 4775, the Ozone Standards Implementation Act of 2016.
| Lobbyist | Covered position, as disclosed |
|---|---|
| DESMARIE M WATERHOUSE | — |
Energy/Nuclear ENG
Supported bills to ensure regulatory relief for hydro facilities. Supported language in the House and Senate energy bills to streamline hydro and relicensing for all sites of hydro facilities. Discussed the need for DOE funding of small modular nuclear reactors. Discussed the issue of mandatory conditioning during the hydropower licensing/relicensing process. Lobbied on H.R. 2898, the Western Water and American Food Security Act of 2015, and S. 1894, the California Emergency Drought Relief Act of 2015, on the allocation of costs at federal hydropower facilities. Lobbied on provisions in the Water Resources Development Act of 2016 (S. 2848 and H.R. 5303)on the allocation of costs at federal hydropower facilities. Lobbied on the implications of how DOE calculates its source-site factor on public power(DE-FOA-00015812).
| Lobbyist | Covered position, as disclosed |
|---|---|
| JOY DITTO | — |
| AMY THOMAS | — |
| CORY TOTH | — |
| DESMARIE M WATERHOUSE | — |
Shown as published by the Senate Office of Public Records and the House Clerk under the Lobbying Disclosure Act. The official filing is the record; open it for the full form.