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, FY17 appropriations request for the overall program, full permanent funding; [no bill number] Presidents FY17 Budget, Interior, Environment and Related Agencies Appropriations, U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service and Department of Interior (DOI) fire funding; H.R.2029, Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2016, making appropriations for military construction, the Department of Veterans Affairs, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2016, and for other purposes, specific provisions related to Land and Water Conservation Fund reauthorization, wildfire disaster funding, international climate change assistance funding, conservation easement tax incentives, Clean Air Act riders, Clean Water Act riders, renewable energy tax provisions, and Interior and Environmental, Commerce, Justice and Science, Energy, Agriculture, Department of Defenses Readiness and Environmental Protection Integration (REPI); H.R.3049/S.1800, Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2016, appropriations for Conservation Title in the Omnibus appropriation bill; 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, inclusion into the FY16 appropriations omnibus bill; 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; H.R.2822/S.1645, Interior, Environment and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2016, Sage Grouse conservation, climate change programs, 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, Land and Water Conservation Fund; 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 (GEF) 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 Hamilton City Ecosystem Restoration and Flood Damage Reduction project; [no bill number yet] Water Resources Development Act, specifically funding levels and program fixes that include nature-based solutions, advanced mitigation, and project parthership agreement; [no bill number] Stafford Reform Act, disaster funding; [no bill number] U.S. Army Corp of Engineer, Navigation and Ecosystem Sustainability Program (NESP), long term program of navigation improvement of the Upper Mississippi River System (UMRS);
| Lobbyist | Covered position, as disclosed |
|---|---|
| STEPHANIE BAILENSON | — |
| CECILIA M CLAVET | — |
| JENNIFER CONNER NELMS | — |
| THOMAS CORS | — |
| ELIZABETH CROW | — |
| NATHAN CUMMINS | — |
| NAVONEEL DAYANAND | — |
| CATHERINE DEMPSEY | — |
| MICHAEL DENNIS | — |
| MICHELLE ELIZABETH DIETZ | — |
| SUSAN DONOVAN | — |
| THOMAS FARMER | — |
| BRENT KEITH New | — |
| DEBORAH LYNN KELLER New | — |
| MARK S KRAMER | — |
| CHRISTINA MCGREGOR | — |
| ABBIE MEADOR | — |
| KAMERAN ONLEY | — |
| JIMMIE POWELL New | — |
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) specifically in Oregon; H.R.2647, Resilient Federal Forest Act of 2015, specific provisions relating to fire funding and forest restoration;
| Lobbyist | Covered position, as disclosed |
|---|---|
| ELIZABETH CROW | — |
| NAVONEEL DAYANAND | — |
Transportation TRA
H.R.22, FAST Act, Fixing Americas Surface Transportation Act, to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to exempt employees with health coverage under TRICARE or the Veterans Adminstration from being taken into account for purposes of determining the employers to which the employer mandate applies under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, an act to authorize funds for Federal-aid highway, highway transit programs, and for other purposes, specific provisions relating to: habitat connectivity & resilience, federal lands roads, quatic connectivity, resiliency, metropolitan planning, non-metropolitan planning, advanced programmatic mitigation, advanced programmatic mitigation, definitions and declaration of policy, National Highway Performance program, Highway Safety Improvement program, National goals and performance management measures, eligibility for environmental restoration and pollution abatement, climate change resiliency, and advocating for natural infrastructure, connectivity, and resilience in a reauthorization of transportation funding. The transportation bill that was passed contains measure that for the first-time allow state DOTs and MPOs the flexibility to include resilience and storm-water management planning ino their long-term transportation plans. This will open up significant opportunities for natural infrastructure and vulnerability assessments in infrastructure planning to prepare Americas infrastructure to protect local communities for future generations. As well, the transportation bill strengthens programmatic advanced mitigation in the planning process, a concept TNC has successfully implemented in multiple states across America; [no bill number yet] Moving Ahead in Progress in the 21st Century (MAP-21), reauthorization, federal lands, roads, aquatic and habitat connectivity, and resilience in long-term planning process; <-pretty sure this was the older version of what is now called the Fast Act.
| Lobbyist | Covered position, as disclosed |
|---|---|
| CECILIA M CLAVET | — |
| JENNIFER CONNER NELMS | — |
| NATHAN CUMMINS | — |
| NAVONEEL DAYANAND | — |
| MICHAEL DENNIS | — |
| MARK S KRAMER | — |
| CHRISTINA MCGREGOR | — |
| KAMERAN ONLEY | — |
| JIMMIE POWELL New | — |
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 | — |
| NATHAN CUMMINS | — |
| NAVONEEL DAYANAND | — |
| MICHAEL DENNIS | — |
| MARK S KRAMER | — |
| CHRISTINA MCGREGOR | — |
| KAMERAN ONLEY | — |
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; H.R.702, To adapt to changing crude oil market conditions, all provisions of the bill; 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, specific provisions relating to Shaheen Portman, energy research, and offshore energy; H.R. 8, North American Energy Security and Infrastructure Act of 2015, to modernize energy infrastructure, build a 21st century energy and manufacturing workforce, bolster Americas energy, security and diplomacy, and promote energy efficiency and government accountability and for other purposes; S.2011, Offshore Production and Energizing National Security Act of 2015, an original bill to provide for reforms of the administration of the Outer Continential Shelf of the United States, and for other purposes; S.J.Res.24/ H.J.Res.72, A joint resolution providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of a rule submitted by the Environmental Protection Agency relating to Carbon Pollution Emission Guidelines for Existing Stationary Sources: Electric Utility Generating Units. S.J.Res.23/H.J.Res.71, A joint resolution providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of a rule submitted by the Environmental Protection Agency relating to Standards of Performance for Greenhouse Gas Emissions from New, Modified, and Reconstructed Stationary Sources: Electric Utility Generating Units; Funding of Green Climate Fund International (Paris Climate Change Agreement 2015);
| Lobbyist | Covered position, as disclosed |
|---|---|
| STEPHANIE BAILENSON | — |
| CATHERINE DEMPSEY | — |
| MICHAEL DENNIS | — |
| MICHELLE ELIZABETH DIETZ | — |
| CHRISTINA MCGREGOR | — |
| KAMERAN ONLEY | — |
| JIMMIE POWELL New | — |
Clean Air and Water (quality) CAW
H.R. 223/S.1024, 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; National Marine Fisheries Service Floodplain development; [no bill number yet] Water Resources Development Act reauthorization, resilience, issues related to emergency disaster responses, and other measures through WRDA; President Obama and Environmental Protection Agency rule, Clean Power Plan, historic and important step in reducing carbon pollution from power plants that takes real action on climate change;
| Lobbyist | Covered position, as disclosed |
|---|---|
| NATHAN CUMMINS | — |
| NAVONEEL DAYANAND | — |
| CATHERINE DEMPSEY | — |
| SUSAN DONOVAN | — |
| MARK S KRAMER | — |
| KAMERAN ONLEY | — |
| JIMMIE POWELL New | — |
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, to authorize the sale of certain National Forest System land in the State of Georgia, spefically GA Natural Forest; S.508, FLAME Act Amendments of 2015, 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, specific provisions under Title I, Flame Act Amendments and Title II, 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; 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; S.1558, National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2016, all provisions related to sage grouse and other endangered species; H.R.167/S. 235, Wildfire Disaster Funding Act, a bill to provide for wildfire suppression operations, and for other purposes, whole bill Sections 1 & 2; [no bill number] Agency implementation related to resilience and hazard mitigation; [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 yet] Coral Reef Conservation Act, reauthorization discussion; Presidential Memorandum on mitigation;
| Lobbyist | Covered position, as disclosed |
|---|---|
| STEPHANIE BAILENSON | — |
| CECILIA M CLAVET | — |
| THOMAS CORS | — |
| NATHAN CUMMINS | — |
| NAVONEEL DAYANAND | — |
| CATHERINE DEMPSEY | — |
| MICHAEL DENNIS | — |
| THOMAS FARMER | — |
| BRENT KEITH New | — |
| DEBORAH LYNN KELLER New | — |
| MARK S KRAMER | — |
| CHRISTINA MCGREGOR | — |
| ABBIE MEADOR | — |
| SARAH WOODHOUSE MURDOCK | — |
| KAMERAN ONLEY | — |
| JESSICA WILKINSON | — |
Real Estate/Land Use/Conservation RES
E.O. 13604 Improving Performance of Federal Permitting and Review of Infrastructure Projects, S. 338/H.R.1814, 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, and funding for FY17; S. 556/S. 405, Bipartisan Sportsmen's Act of 2015, a bill to protect and enhance opportunities for recreational hunting, fishing, and shooting, and for other purposes, specifically Title II, Habitat Conservation, inclusion of National Fish Habitat Conservation Act in bipartisan sportsmen package, Federal Land Transaction Facilitation Act (FLTFA), and conservation grant program with matched-dollar North American Wetlands Conservation Act (NAWCA); 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/H.R. 470, 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] Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) Presidential Memorandum on Mitigation; [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] 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 | — |
| THOMAS FARMER | — |
| BRENT KEITH New | — |
| MARK S KRAMER | — |
| CHRISTINA MCGREGOR | — |
| ABBIE MEADOR | — |
| JESSICA WILKINSON | — |
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