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Railroads RRR

Surface Transportation Board reform (S. 953/H.R. 2125); removal of railroad antitrust exemptions (H.R. 1650/S. 772); rail shipping rates and practices.

Contacted: Energy, Dept of; HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; Internal Revenue Service (IRS); SENATE; Surface Transportation Board (STB); Treasury, Dept of; Bureau of Reclamation; Environmental Protection Agency (EPA); Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC); White House Office; Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ); Agriculture, Dept of (USDA)

Bills named: S. 772 (110th), S. 953 (110th), H.R. 1650 (110th), H.R. 2125 (110th)

Utilities UTI

Technology research and development; carbon capture and storage, including the Boucher CCS bill (H.R. 6258); transmission siting and operation (including draft bill by Senator Reid on borrowing authority for transmission for the Western Area Power Administration); cyber security (including draft Dingell-Boucher cyber-security bill); energy efficiency; smart metering/smart grid; electricity markets; theft of copper wire used by electric utilities.

Contacted: SENATE; Agriculture, Dept of (USDA); Environmental Protection Agency (EPA); Bureau of Reclamation; Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC); Surface Transportation Board (STB); Internal Revenue Service (IRS); Treasury, Dept of; Energy, Dept of; White House Office; HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ)

Bills named: H.R. 6258 (110th)

Agriculture AGR

Implementation of the Farm Bill of 2008 (H.R. 2419)

Contacted: Agriculture, Dept of (USDA); SENATE; Internal Revenue Service (IRS); Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ); Surface Transportation Board (STB); Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC); Bureau of Reclamation; Energy, Dept of; White House Office; HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; Environmental Protection Agency (EPA); Treasury, Dept of

Bills named: H.R. 2419 (110th)

Taxation/Internal Revenue Code TAX

Clean Renewable Energy Bonds (H.R. 6049); production tax credit for renewable energy; tax credit for plug-in hybrid electric vehicles; transferrable tax credit for new nuclear plants for public power; use of tax-exempt bonds for municipal purposes; municipal bond rating agency issues (H.R. 6308); clean coal tax-credit bonds.

Contacted: White House Office; Energy, Dept of; Bureau of Reclamation; Surface Transportation Board (STB); HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; Treasury, Dept of; Agriculture, Dept of (USDA); Internal Revenue Service (IRS); SENATE; Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ); Environmental Protection Agency (EPA); Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC)

Bills named: H.R. 6308 (110th), H.R. 6049 (110th)

Retirement RET

Worker Retiree and Employer Recovery Act of 2008, H.R. 7327

Contacted: Internal Revenue Service (IRS); Agriculture, Dept of (USDA); Treasury, Dept of; Environmental Protection Agency (EPA); Energy, Dept of; SENATE; Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ); Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC); Bureau of Reclamation; White House Office; HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; Surface Transportation Board (STB)

Bills named: H.R. 7327 (110th)

Telecommunications TEC

Municipal provision of broadband services, including the Community Broadband Act (H.R. 3281 and S. 1853); pole attachments; cable programming issues; broadband mapping; broadband grants.

Contacted: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC); Bureau of Reclamation; SENATE; Treasury, Dept of; Environmental Protection Agency (EPA); White House Office; Agriculture, Dept of (USDA); Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ); Surface Transportation Board (STB); Energy, Dept of; Internal Revenue Service (IRS)

Bills named: S. 1853 (110th), H.R. 3281 (110th)

Budget/Appropriations BUD

Renewable Energy Production Incentive (REPI) prorgram at DOE; energy research and development programs at DOE; energy efficiency programs; federal Power Marketing Administrations; operation and maintenance funding at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Bureau of Reclamation for hydropower facilities.

Contacted: Bureau of Reclamation; Energy, Dept of; Internal Revenue Service (IRS); Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC); Environmental Protection Agency (EPA); Agriculture, Dept of (USDA); Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ); HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; White House Office; SENATE; Treasury, Dept of; Surface Transportation Board (STB)

Energy/Nuclear ENG

Wholesale electricity markets (including S. 2660); energy efficiency, "smart" grid; transmission siting; transmission issues generally, including Senator Reid proposal on loan guarantees for the Western Area Power Administration to build additional transmission; implementation of 2007 energy bill; natural gas markets; transferrable tax credit for new nuclear for public power; loan guarantee program for new nuclear.

Contacted: Internal Revenue Service (IRS); Energy, Dept of; Surface Transportation Board (STB); SENATE; HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; Bureau of Reclamation; Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC); Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ); Treasury, Dept of; Environmental Protection Agency (EPA); Agriculture, Dept of (USDA); White House Office

Bills named: S. 2660 (110th)

Clean Air and Water (quality) CAW

Climate change issues generally, including Dingell-Boucher discussion draft; carbon capture and storage (CCS), including Boucher CCS bill, H.R. 6258; Clean Air Act issues, including court vacation of EPA's CAIR rule and legislative implications of that decision; water issues related to future CCS and other electric utility functions.

Contacted: Bureau of Reclamation; Surface Transportation Board (STB); Energy, Dept of; White House Office; Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC); SENATE; Treasury, Dept of; Environmental Protection Agency (EPA); Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ); HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; Internal Revenue Service (IRS); Agriculture, Dept of (USDA)

Bills named: H.R. 6258 (110th)