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Real Estate/Land Use/Conservation RES

Issues generally related to the support of like-kind exchanges for real estate under section 1031 of the tax code.

Contacted: U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (USFWS); Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS); Interior, Dept of (DOI); SENATE; Environmental Protection Agency (EPA); HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; Agriculture, Dept of (USDA)

Defense DEF

Issues related to inclusion of a pilot program to evaluate the environmental sustainability, infrastructure resilience, cost effectiveness, and construction time of military construction projects built with mass timber in the National Defense Authorization Act 2022.

Contacted: Agriculture, Dept of (USDA); Environmental Protection Agency (EPA); Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS); HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; SENATE; Interior, Dept of (DOI); U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (USFWS)

Agriculture AGR

Issues related to forestry and forest management; issues related to the development and use of mass timber; issues related to funding for forestry programs at USDA; issues related to forestry and climate change; issues related to the REPLANT Act; issues related to the Forest Incentives Program Act; issues related generally to wildfire mitigation.

Contacted: Agriculture, Dept of (USDA); SENATE; HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (USFWS); Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS); Interior, Dept of (DOI); Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

Taxation/Internal Revenue Code TAX

General issues related to tax incentives for building with low carbon materials and for carbon sequestration; issues related to the Forest Incentives Program Act; issues generally related to the support of like-kind exchanges for real estate under section 1031 of the tax code.

Contacted: Agriculture, Dept of (USDA); SENATE; U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (USFWS); HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; Environmental Protection Agency (EPA); Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS); Interior, Dept of (DOI)

Housing HOU

General issues related to infrastructure and and the built environment; issues related to the LIFT Act; issues related to building with low carbon building materials - such as wood - in the Presidential Executive Order on Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad; issues related to construction of affordable housing; issues related to the Forest Incentives Program Act; the CLEAN Future Act.

Contacted: Agriculture, Dept of (USDA); U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (USFWS); Environmental Protection Agency (EPA); HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; Interior, Dept of (DOI); SENATE; Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS)

Budget/Appropriations BUD

Issues related to increased funding for the Forest Service's Forest Inventory and Analysis Program in the FY 2022 Department of Interior, Environment and Related Agencies Appropriations Act; issues related to report language commending funding of U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service projects conducted collaboratively with private landowners in the FY 2022 Department of Interior, Environment and Related Agencies Appropriations Act.

Contacted: Interior, Dept of (DOI); U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (USFWS); Agriculture, Dept of (USDA); SENATE; Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS); HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

Environment/Superfund ENV

Issues related to the environmental impacts of forest management; the Waters of the United States rule; issues related to wildlife conservation, the Endangered Species Act; and the Migratory Bird Treaty Act; issues related to wildfire mitigation and funding; issues related to forestry and climate change; issues related to the Clean Water Act; issues related to the Great American Outdoors Act.

Contacted: SENATE; U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (USFWS); Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS); Agriculture, Dept of (USDA); Environmental Protection Agency (EPA); HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; Interior, Dept of (DOI)

Energy/Nuclear ENG

Issues related to climate change and carbon capture and storage as it relates to working forests.

Contacted: Agriculture, Dept of (USDA); HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (USFWS); Environmental Protection Agency (EPA); Interior, Dept of (DOI); SENATE; Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS)

Immigration IMM

Issues related to the forestry workforce and H-2B visas; advocacy for the release of additional H-2B visas in Section 105 of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021; issues related to the Farm Workforce Modernization Act (H.R.1603).

Contacted: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA); Agriculture, Dept of (USDA); U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (USFWS); HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS); Interior, Dept of (DOI); SENATE

Bills named: H.R. 1603 (117th)

Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace LBR

Issues related to the forestry workforce and H-2B visas; advocacy for the release of additional H-2B visas in Section 105 of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021; issues related to the Farm Workforce Modernization Act (H.R.1603).

Contacted: SENATE; Agriculture, Dept of (USDA); Interior, Dept of (DOI); Environmental Protection Agency (EPA); U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (USFWS); HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS)

Bills named: H.R. 1603 (117th)

Clean Air and Water (quality) CAW

Policies related to climate change and carbon capture and storage as it relates to working forests; issues related to forestry; issues related to the Clean Water Act; the CLEAN Future Act; the Trillion Trees Act; the Growing Climate Solutions Act; the Forest Incentives Program Act; general issues related to the call for the U.S. to conserve 30% of the nation's land and water by 2030 as detailed in the Presidential Executive Order on Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad.

Contacted: SENATE; Environmental Protection Agency (EPA); Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS); Agriculture, Dept of (USDA); U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (USFWS); HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; Interior, Dept of (DOI)