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Transportation TRA

implementation of H.R. 4348, Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century (MAP-21) Act (P.L. 112-141), legislation reauthorizing federal surface transportation programs; provisions related to deployment of intelligent transportation system (ITS) technology

Contacted: SENATE; Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS); Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS); Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC); Environmental Protection Agency (EPA); U.S. Trade Representative (USTR); U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC); General Services Administration (GSA); Energy, Dept of; Commerce, Dept of (DOC); Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA); HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Bills named: H.R. 4348 (112th)

Consumer Issues/Safety/Products CSP

U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission's (CPSC) implementation of the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008 (CPSIA; P.L. 110-314), including management of the SaferProducts.gov public database; U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) carbon monoxide, smoke, and fire detection education and awareness activities; hazards posed by the ingestion of lithium coin/button cell batteries (general); H.R. 4326, Residential Carbon Monoxide Poisoning Prevention Act, legislation to direct the Consumer Product Safety Commission to require residential carbon monoxide detectors to meet the applicable ANSI/UL standards by treating those standards as consumer product safety rules and to establish a grants program to encourage states to require the installation of such detectors in homes; S. 3343, Nicholas and Zachary Burt Memorical Carbon Monoxide Poisoning Prevention Act, legislation to direct the Consumer Product Safety Commission to require residential carbon monoxide detectors to meet the applicable ANSI/UL standards by treating those standards as consumer product safety rules and to establish a grants progarm to encourage states to require the installation of such detectors in homes; S. 1165, Button Cell Battery Safety Act, legislation to protect children and other consumers against hazards associated with the accidential ingestion of button cell batteries by requiring the Consumer Product Safety Commission to promulgate consumer product safety standards to require child-resistant closures on remote controls and other consumer products that use such batteries

Contacted: SENATE; U.S. Trade Representative (USTR); Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA); Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC); HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; General Services Administration (GSA); U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC); Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS); Energy, Dept of; Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS); Commerce, Dept of (DOC); Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

Bills named: S. 3343 (112th), S. 1165 (112th), H.R. 4326 (112th)

Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace LBR

U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Admimistration policies and procedures with respect to Nationally Recognized Testing Laboratories acceptance of manufacturers' test data for equipment in hazardous (classified) locations; U.S. Occupational Safety and Healthl Administration adoption/acceptance of the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) Certification for Standards for Electrical Equipment in Explosive Atmospheres for Hazardous (Classified) Locations (Ex Scheme); U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Adminitration adoption of updated voluntary consensus standards by reference (general); U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration incorporation, by reference, of the American National Standards Institute Z535 series of standards for workplace and facility safety signs into OSHA regulations; implementation of the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration's final rule modifying its Hazard Communication Standard to conform to the United Nations Globally Harmonized System for Classification and Labeling of Chemicals; workplace maintenance of emergency lighting systems

Contacted: Commerce, Dept of (DOC); Environmental Protection Agency (EPA); U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC); Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC); Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA); Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS); U.S. Trade Representative (USTR); SENATE; HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; Energy, Dept of; General Services Administration (GSA); Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)

Science/Technology SCI

Congressional support for Smart Grid Interoperability Panel (SGIP) 2.0

Contacted: SENATE; Commerce, Dept of (DOC); Energy, Dept of; U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC); Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC); U.S. Trade Representative (USTR); General Services Administration (GSA); Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA); Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS); Environmental Protection Agency (EPA); Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS); HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Manufacturing MAN

benefits of smart manufacturing and the need for a national manufacturing strategy

Contacted: Energy, Dept of; SENATE; U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC); Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA); Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS); Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC); Environmental Protection Agency (EPA); U.S. Trade Representative (USTR); Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS); Commerce, Dept of (DOC); HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; General Services Administration (GSA)

Medicare/Medicaid MMM

Medicare reimbursements for medical imaging services and radiography

Contacted: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; Commerce, Dept of (DOC); U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC); U.S. Trade Representative (USTR); General Services Administration (GSA); Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC); Energy, Dept of; SENATE; Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS); Environmental Protection Agency (EPA); Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA); Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS)

Trade (domestic/foreign) TRD

H.R. 6156, Russia and Moldova Jackson-Vanick Repeal and Sergei Magnitsky Rule of Law Accountability Act of 2012, legislation to extend Permanent Normal Trade Relations (PNTR) to Russia; potential U.S.-European Union free trade negotiations; international market barriers to electric motors; World Customs Organization negotiations on classification of LED lamps; World Trade Organization negotiations to expand the scope of the Information Technology Agreement; international availability of certain rare earth elements; Trans-Pacific Partnership trade negotiations; potential Brazilian trade retaliation against U.S. in World Trade Organization cotton dispute, reflected in consideration of H.R. 6083, Federal Agriculture Reform and Risk Management Act of 2012

Contacted: U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC); HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC); General Services Administration (GSA); Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS); Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS); Commerce, Dept of (DOC); Energy, Dept of; U.S. Trade Representative (USTR); SENATE; Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA); Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

Bills named: H.R. 6083 (112th), H.R. 6156 (112th)

Taxation/Internal Revenue Code TAX

repeal or delayed implementation of the medical device excise tax established by the Affordable Care Act (P.L. 111-148); Section 30C tax incentive for alternative fuel vehicle refueling property; extension of annual tax extenders legislation; discussion/development of comprehensive tax reform policies with NEMA Tax Reform Working Group; S. 3591, Commercial Building Modernization Act, legislation to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to improve and extend the deduction for new and existing energy-efficienct commercial buildings; H.R. 8, American Tax Payers Relief Act; Title IV on energy tax extenders

Contacted: Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS); Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS); General Services Administration (GSA); Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC); U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC); Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA); SENATE; HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; Commerce, Dept of (DOC); U.S. Trade Representative (USTR); Environmental Protection Agency (EPA); Energy, Dept of

Bills named: S. 3591 (112th), H.R. 8 (112th)

Budget/Appropriations BUD

H.R. 1, Disaster Relief Appropriations Act, Section 1105 on Sandy rebuilding; Fiscal Year 2013 funding for U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) programs for buildings, vehicles, codes, smart grid, and research and development

Contacted: General Services Administration (GSA); Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC); Energy, Dept of; SENATE; Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS); U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC); Environmental Protection Agency (EPA); U.S. Trade Representative (USTR); HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA); Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS); Commerce, Dept of (DOC)

Bills named: H.R. 1 (112th)

Environment/Superfund ENV

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Toxic Substances Control Act chemical work plans and risk assessments; S. 847, Safe Chemicals Act, legislation to reform and modernize the Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976 (TSCA); reporting information on sulfur hexafluoride (SF6) to U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under Mandatory Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program; U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) final Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) section 8(d) rule on cadmium and cadmium compounds; U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS) risk assessment for arsenic

Contacted: Commerce, Dept of (DOC); SENATE; Energy, Dept of; Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS); Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA); Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS); Environmental Protection Agency (EPA); U.S. Trade Representative (USTR); HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC); Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC); General Services Administration (GSA)

Bills named: S. 847 (112th)

Natural Resources NAT

S. 2374, Helium Stewardship Act, revises the authority of the Secretary of the Interior to offer crude helium for sale for federal, medical, scientific, and commercial uses; authorizes extramural borders of federal research grants, as well as federal agencies, to purchase refined helium for federal uses, including medical and scientific uses, from persons who have entered into enforcement contracts to purchase an equivalent quantity of crude helium from the Secretary (interest for medical imaging, welding uses) S. 1113, Critical Materials Policy Act, legislation to facilitate the restablishment of domestic, critical mineral designation, assessment, production, manufacturing, recycling, analysis, forecasting, workforce, education, research, and international capabilities in the United States (applicability to certain critical materials used in the production and operation of certain electrial and medical imaging equipment)

Contacted: Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA); Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC); Energy, Dept of; U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC); SENATE; Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS); Environmental Protection Agency (EPA); Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS); HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; General Services Administration (GSA); U.S. Trade Representative (USTR); Commerce, Dept of (DOC)

Bills named: S. 2374 (112th), S. 1113 (112th)

Energy/Nuclear ENG

S. 1000, Energy Savings and Industrial Competitiveness Act, provisions related to demand response and industrial energy efficiency; H.R. 4017, Smart Energy Act, provisions related to demand response and industrial energy efficiency; electric transmission siting policy; development of cybersecurity legislation and relationship to electrical grid; energy savings performance contracting; promotion of smart grid and energy storage in response to storms; policies to incent investment in industrial energy efficiency; development of legislative policy to reduce energy intensity of federal data centers; H.R. 6852, American Energy Manufacturing Technical Corrections Act, provisions related to energy codes and standards; advanced electrical metering; General Services Administration (GSA) Green Buildings Certification System Review; implementation of the Federal Buildings Personnel Training Act (P.L. 111-112)

Contacted: U.S. Trade Representative (USTR); Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS); Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS); Environmental Protection Agency (EPA); SENATE; Energy, Dept of; Commerce, Dept of (DOC); Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA); HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC); General Services Administration (GSA); U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC)

Bills named: H.R. 6852 (112th), H.R. 4017 (112th), S. 1000 (112th)