Mid-Year Report — RIO TINTO SERVICES, INC. for RIO TINTO SERVICES, INC. (2007)

Firm

RIO TINTO SERVICES, INC.

Client

RIO TINTO SERVICES, INC.

Income

—

Expenses

$120,000

What was lobbied

8 issue areas, each in the filer's own words, with who lobbied on it and where.

Budget/Appropriations BUD

Proposed explosives tax ("user fee") HR 5427, the Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act, 2007, Title III, provisions relating to FutureGen and clean coal technology funding

Lobbyist	Covered position, as disclosed
CONRAD LASS	N/A

Contacted: Interior, Dept of (DOI); Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ); Executive Office of the President (EOP); Energy, Dept of; HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; SENATE; UNDETERMINED

Bills named: H.R. 5427 (110th)

Clean Air and Water (quality) CAW

Climate change Issues relating to coal-generated electricity Clean water issues Clean air issues, including the EPA's proposed revisions to the National Ambient Air Quality Standards for Particulate Matter HR 5642, the Safe Climate Act of 2006 S 2724, the Clean Air Planning Act of 2006 S 3698, the Global Warming Pollution Reduction Act

Lobbyist	Covered position, as disclosed
CONRAD LASS	N/A

Contacted: Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ); Energy, Dept of; Interior, Dept of (DOI); HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; UNDETERMINED; SENATE; Executive Office of the President (EOP)

Bills named: H.R. 5642 (110th)

Natural Resources NAT

Issues related to mining on public lands

Lobbyist	Covered position, as disclosed
CONRAD LASS	N/A

Contacted: SENATE; HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; Interior, Dept of (DOI); Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ); Energy, Dept of; UNDETERMINED; Executive Office of the President (EOP)

Taxation/Internal Revenue Code TAX

HR 5890, the American-Made Energy Freedom Act of 206, Section 104: Extension and modification of excise tax credits for certain liquid fuel derived from coal

Lobbyist	Covered position, as disclosed
CONRAD LASS	N/A

Contacted: Interior, Dept of (DOI); UNDETERMINED; Energy, Dept of; Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ); Executive Office of the President (EOP); SENATE; HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Bills named: H.R. 5890 (110th)

Disaster Planning/Emergencies DIS

Mine safety HR 5432, the Mine Improvement and New Emergency Response Act of 2006 HR 5481, the Modernizing and Improving the National Emergency Response System for Mining Act S 2803, the Mine Improvement and New Emergency Response Act of 2006

Lobbyist	Covered position, as disclosed
CONRAD LASS	N/A

Contacted: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; SENATE; Energy, Dept of; Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ); UNDETERMINED; Executive Office of the President (EOP); Interior, Dept of (DOI)

Bills named: H.R. 5432 (110th), H.R. 5481 (110th)

Environment/Superfund ENV

Superfund Abandoned mine issues, including, but not limited to, cleanup and reclamation S 1848, the Cleanup of Inactive and Abandoned Mines Act S 2626, the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act Amendments of 2006 HR 1600, the Abandoned Mine Lands Reclamation Reform Act of 2005 HR 2830, the Pension Security and Transparency Act of 2005, abandoned mine lands provisions S 1783, the Pension Security and Transparency Act of 2005, abandoned mine lands provisions S 2780, the Good Samaritan Clean Watershed Act

Lobbyist	Covered position, as disclosed
CONRAD LASS	N/A

Contacted: Energy, Dept of; SENATE; Interior, Dept of (DOI); UNDETERMINED; Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ); HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; Executive Office of the President (EOP)

Bills named: H.R. 2830 (110th), H.R. 1600 (110th)

Energy/Nuclear ENG

Clean coal technology The Asia-Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate The Carbon Sequestration Leadership Forum FutureGen, the Integrated Sequestration and Hydrogen Research Initiative

Lobbyist	Covered position, as disclosed
CONRAD LASS	N/A

Contacted: Energy, Dept of; Executive Office of the President (EOP); HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; Interior, Dept of (DOI); UNDETERMINED; Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ); SENATE

Real Estate/Land Use/Conservation RES

S 2466, the Southeast Arizona Land Exchange and Conservation Act of 2006

Lobbyist	Covered position, as disclosed
CONRAD LASS	N/A

Contacted: Interior, Dept of (DOI); SENATE; Executive Office of the President (EOP); HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; Energy, Dept of; Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ); UNDETERMINED

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.