THE NATURE CONSERVANCY for NATURE CONSERVANCY
What was lobbied
8 issue areas, each in the filer's own words, with who lobbied on it and where.
Budget/Appropriations BUD
S. 338, LWCF, Land and Water Conservation Authorization and Funding Act, annual appropriations for LWCF, full permanent funding; H.R.3049/S.1800, Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2016, appropriations for Conservation Programs; S. 405, Bipartisan Sportsmen's Act of 2015, Title 2, all provisions relating to habitat conservation and support for amendments related to conservation priorities, Federal Land Transaction and Facilitiation Act, North American Wetlands Conservation Act, National Fish and Wildlife Foundation Establishment Act, National Fish Habitat Conservation Act; S. 235/H.R.167, Wildfire Disaster Funding Act, a bill to provide for wildfire suppression operations, all provisions, wildfire suppression during budget reconciliation process; S.Con.Res.11, An original concurrent resolution setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2016 and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2017 through 2025, specific provisions relating to Function 300, Natural Resources and Environment, and Function 350, Agriculture, conservation Funding provisions including U.S. Department of Interior and U.S Forest Service, S. Amdt.434, to provide for an adjustment to committee allocations for wildfire suppression funding, S. Amdt. 1031/1046, the tester amendment would provide important fundings to the Bureau Land Management/United States Forest Service to continue sage grouse habitat conservation work on the ground, and protect the western way of life while allow robust economic activity to continue, sufficient resources to avoid the need to list the Sage Grouse; H.R.2578, Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, all provisions relating to National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration's budget/appropriations, National Marine Fisheries Service, electronic monitoring, for science-related programs, and related agencies; H.R.2822/S.1645, Interior, Environment and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2016, Great Lakes Restoration Inititiative, Department of Interior and Forest Service provision, Bureau of Land Management, National Park Service, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service budget and U.S. Forest Service Land Acquisition Accounts; U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Resource Management and Endangered Species Grant Programs; Bureau of Land Management Resource Management accounts, overall funding increase of 2% for natural resource funding, Cooperative Endangered Species Conservation Fund, Wild and Scenic, National Park Service, Land and Water Conservation Fund, Fish Wildlife Service, Land Water Conservation Funding for the Norther Tallgrass Prairie National Wildlife Refuge,; S.1725/H.R.2772, State and Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2016, including specific provisions relating to conservation line item for USAID biodiversity, Global Environment Facility quota funding, and Green Climate Fund (GCF) accounts, international climate priorities; S.1558, National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2016, funding for Camp Ripley and Readiness and Environmental Protection Integration (REPI)/Army Compatible Use Buffers (ACUB) program, Vitter amendment, sage-grouse amendment; H.R.2028, Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act of 2016, Specific provision relating to U.S. Army Corps of Engineers budget, Hamilton City Ecosystem Restoration and Flood Damage Reduction project, Federal Flood Risk Standard; H.R.3128, Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act of 2016, provisions relating to Federal Flood Risk Standard; [no bill number] Navigation and Ecosystem Sustainability Program, funding levels; [no bill number] Upper Mississippi River Restoration Enivonmental Management Program, funding levels;
| Lobbyist | Covered position, as disclosed |
|---|---|
| STEPHANIE BAILENSON | — |
| CECILIA M CLAVET | — |
| JENNIFER CONNER NELMS | — |
| THOMAS CORS | — |
| ELIZABETH CROW New | Staff Assistant, Legislative Correspondent, Legislative Assistant, Senior Legislative Assistant, Senior Legislative Assistant, Senior Policy Advisor, Legislative Director |
| NATHAN CUMMINS | — |
| NAVONEEL DAYANAND | — |
| CATHERINE DEMPSEY | — |
| MICHAEL DENNIS | — |
| MICHELLE ELIZABETH DIETZ | — |
| SUSAN DONOVAN | — |
| ADRIENNE DZIAK | — |
| THOMAS FARMER | — |
| MARK S KRAMER | — |
| CHRISTINA MCGREGOR | — |
| ABBIE MEADOR | — |
| KAMERAN ONLEY | — |
| ISIS ATHENA STARK | — |
Transportation TRA
[no bill number yet] Surface Transportation Bill Reauthorization (draft versions of House and Senate Transportation Bills, previous bill H.R. 5021, MAP-21 Reauthorization Act), a bill to reauthorize Federal-aid highway and highway safety construction programs, and for other purposes, specific provision relating to: Habitat Connectivity & Resilience, potential to add RAMP provision to legislation, Federal lands roads, aquatic connectivity, resiliency, Section 101 Definitions and declaration of policy, Section 119 National Highway Performance program, Section 134 Metropolitan transportation planning, Section 135 Statewide and nonmetropolitan transportation planning, Section 148 Highway Safety Improvement program, Section 150 National goals and performance management measures, Section 328, eligibility for environmental restoration and pollution abatement; [no bill number] Transportation funding reauthorization, advocating for natural infrastructure, connectivity, resilience in a reauthorization of transportation funding; [no bill number] Drive Act, habitat connectivity and resilience in long-term planning process; [no bill number] Infrastructure Facilitation and Habitat Conservation Act, Grow America Act, the multi-year surface transportation reauthorization proposal by the executive branch;
| Lobbyist | Covered position, as disclosed |
|---|---|
| CECILIA M CLAVET | — |
| JENNIFER CONNER NELMS | — |
| THOMAS CORS | — |
| NATHAN CUMMINS | — |
| NAVONEEL DAYANAND | — |
| MICHAEL DENNIS | — |
| SUSAN DONOVAN | — |
| ADRIENNE DZIAK | — |
| CHRISTINA MCGREGOR | — |
| ISIS ATHENA STARK | — |
Agriculture AGR
[no bill number yet] Agriculture Reform, Food, and Jobs Act, specific provisions relating to Title 2, which funds voluntary easement programs, particularly conservation and Regional Conservation Partnership Program (RCPP), the Agriculture Land Easement program (ALE), Agricultural Conservation Easement Program (ACEP) allocations by state, Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP),National Resources Conservation Service for Wetlands Reserve Easement funds;
| Lobbyist | Covered position, as disclosed |
|---|---|
| JENNIFER CONNER NELMS | — |
| THOMAS CORS | — |
| NAVONEEL DAYANAND | — |
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code TAX
H.R. 644, America Gives More Act 2015, a bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to permanently extend and expand the charitable deduction for contributions of food inventory, restoring and making permanent the special tax deductions for donation of conservation easements; S. 330/H.R. 641, Conservation Easement Incentive Act of 2015, a bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to make permanent the special rule for contributions of qualified conservation contributions, and for other purposes, all provisions, including (estate, tax, capital gains tax, income tax) and recruitment of cosponsors;
| Lobbyist | Covered position, as disclosed |
|---|---|
| JENNIFER CONNER NELMS | — |
| ELIZABETH CROW New | Staff Assistant, Legislative Correspondent, Legislative Assistant, Senior Legislative Assistant, Senior Legislative Assistant, Senior Policy Advisor, Legislative Director |
| NATHAN CUMMINS | — |
| NAVONEEL DAYANAND | — |
| MICHAEL DENNIS | — |
| MARK S KRAMER | — |
| CHRISTINA MCGREGOR | — |
| KAMERAN ONLEY | — |
| ISIS ATHENA STARK | — |
Energy/Nuclear ENG
S. 720, Shaheen Portman Energy Efficiency,Energy Savings and Industrial Competitiveness Act of 2015, a bill to promote energy savings in residential buildings and industry, and for other purposes, all provisions and specific provision relating to miscellaneous FERC and transport issues, legislation to establish, expand or replenish (from various budget and other riders) energy Clean Air Act regulations- Interstate Air Transport Rule and Secondary Standards Regulations; S.2012, Energy Policy Modernization Act of 2015, an original bill to provide for the modernization of the energy policy of the United States, and for other purposes; [no bill number] Offshore energy, offshore mitigation with Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (DOI/BOEM) preparation of policy platform;
| Lobbyist | Covered position, as disclosed |
|---|---|
| STEPHANIE BAILENSON | — |
| MICHAEL DENNIS | — |
| ADRIENNE DZIAK | — |
| CHRISTINA MCGREGOR | — |
Clean Air and Water (quality) CAW
S. 462/ H.R. 243, Safe and Secure Drinking Water Act of 2015, a bill to direct the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to publish a health advisory and submit reports with respect to microcystins in drinking water, all provisions of the bill; S. 589/ H.R. 1135, Defending Our Great Lakes Act of 2015, a bill to provide an immediate measure to control the spread of aquatic nuisance species from the Mississippi River basin to the Great Lakes basin and to inform long-term measures to prevent the Interbasin transfer of aquatic nuisance species, all provisions of the bill; H.R. 223, Great Lakes Restoration Initiative Act of 2015, to authorize the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, all provisions of the bill; S. 1894, California Emergency Drought Relieft, a bill to provide short-term water supplies to drought-stricken California, all provisions; [no bill number yet] Drought Policy, principles and recommendations for improving water resource resilience; [no bill number] Aquatic invasive species in the Chicago area waterways system and the Mississippi River basin; [no bill number] Waters of the U.S., urging no votes on any amendments that slowed the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) process on Waters on the U.S. rule;
| Lobbyist | Covered position, as disclosed |
|---|---|
| NAVONEEL DAYANAND | — |
| CATHERINE DEMPSEY | — |
| SUSAN DONOVAN | — |
| ADRIENNE DZIAK | — |
| MARK S KRAMER | — |
| KAMERAN ONLEY | — |
Natural Resources NAT
H.R. 2647, Resilient Federal Forest Act of 2015, to expedite under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 and improve forest management activitis on National Forest System lands, on public lands under the jurisdiction of the Bureau of Land Management, and on tribal lands to return resilience to overgrown, fire-prone forested lands, and for other purposes; H.R.470, Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest Land Adjustment Act of 2015, GA Natural Forest; S. 566, Tropical Forest Conservation Reauthorization Act, a bill to reauthorize the Tropical Forest Conservation Act of 1998 through fiscal year 2018, and for other purposes; S. 508, FLAME Act Amendment, a bill to amend the FLAME Act of 2009 to provide for additional wildfire suppression activities, to provide for the conduct of certain forest treatment projects, and for other purposes, Title I, all provisions relating to FLAME act amendments and Title II, all provisions relating to forest treatment projects; S. 405, Bipartisan Sportsmen's Act of 2015, Title 2, all provisions relating to habitat conservation and support for amendments related to conservation priorities, Federal Land Transaction and Facilitiation Act, North American Wetlands Conservation Act, National Fish and Wildlife Foundation Establishment Act, National Fish Habitat Conservation Act; S. 338, LWCF, Land and Water Conservation Authorization and Funding Act of 2015, amends the Land and Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965 to make permanent the authorization for the Land and Water Conservation Fund, Section 1, all provisions relating to relating to permanent reauthorization of Land and Water Conservation Fund, makes monies covered into the Fund available for expenditure to carry out the purposes of the Act without further appropriation (Also work to include this "fix" in various other proposed legislation.), requires not less than 1.5% of the annual authorized funding amount to be made available for projects that secure recreational public access to existing federal public land for hunting, fishing, and other recreational purposes; [no bill number yet] Coral Reef Conservation Act, internal preparation of policy and outreach on implementation and possible reauthorization of the Act; [no bill number] Fisheries and Habitat Management, implementation strategies; [no bill number yet] Migratory Bird and salmon conservation--not-yet-introduced drought legislation; [Trade Agreement] Trade- Environment Provisions of the Trans Pacific Partnership, all provisions found in the environmental chapter; [no bill number] Flood risk reduction work, specifically post Sandy work and promotion of natural infrastructure and valuing of ecosystem services work; [no bill number] DOI funded Post Sandy coastal resilience work; [no bill number] FEMA support of projects involving Natural Infrastructure; [no bill number] Advancement of Executive Order on Federal Flood Risk Reduction Standards; [no bill number] CEQ Climate Adaption policy, specifically risk and resilience;
| Lobbyist | Covered position, as disclosed |
|---|---|
| STEPHANIE BAILENSON | — |
| CECILIA M CLAVET | — |
| THOMAS CORS | — |
| ELIZABETH CROW New | Staff Assistant, Legislative Correspondent, Legislative Assistant, Senior Legislative Assistant, Senior Legislative Assistant, Senior Policy Advisor, Legislative Director |
| NATHAN CUMMINS | — |
| NAVONEEL DAYANAND | — |
| MICHAEL DENNIS | — |
| ADRIENNE DZIAK | — |
| THOMAS FARMER | — |
| MARK S KRAMER | — |
| CHRISTINA MCGREGOR | — |
| ABBIE MEADOR | — |
| SARAH WOODHOUSE MURDOCK | — |
| KAMERAN ONLEY | — |
Real Estate/Land Use/Conservation RES
E.O. 13604 Improving Performance of Federal Permitting and Review of Infrastructure Projects, S. 338, Land and Water Conservation Authorization and Funding Act, a bill to permanently reauthorize the Land and Water Conservation Fund, all provisions of the bill, including recruitment of cosponsors; S. 556/S. 405, Bipartisan Sportsmen's Actof 2015, a bill to protect and enhance opportunities for recreational hunting, fishing, and shooting, and for other purposes, specifically Title II, Habitat Conservation, and inclusion of National Fish Habitat Conservation Act in bipartisan sportsmen package; S. 235, Wildfire Disaster Funding Act, a bill to provide for wildfire suppression operations, and for other purposes, whole bill Sections 1 & 2; S.1744, Chattachoochee-Oconee National Forest Land Adjustment Act of 2015, a bill to authorize the sale of certain National Forest System land in the State of Georgia; [no bill number] Habitat Conservation Planning, Endangered Species Act implementation; [no bill number] U.S Fish Wildlife Service Mitigation Policy; [no bill number] Department of Interior Manual Mitigation Policy; [no bill number] Department of Interior National Environmental Policy Act Mitigation Guidance; [no bill number] Bureau of Land Management mitigation manual and handbook; [no bill number] U.S. Forest Service Mitigation Policy; [no bill number] Department of Interior Secretarial Order on Mitigation;
| Lobbyist | Covered position, as disclosed |
|---|---|
| JENNIFER CONNER NELMS | — |
| NATHAN CUMMINS | — |
| CATHERINE DEMPSEY | — |
| MICHELLE ELIZABETH DIETZ | — |
| ADRIENNE DZIAK | — |
| THOMAS FARMER | — |
| MARK S KRAMER | — |
| CHRISTINA MCGREGOR | — |
| ABBIE MEADOR | — |
| JESSICA WILKINSON | — |
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