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Trade (domestic/foreign) TRD

Issues related to the agreement between Canada and US amending the Softwood Lumber Agreement

Contacted: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; SENATE; Environmental Protection Agency (EPA); Agriculture, Dept of (USDA); Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ); Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS); U.S. Forest Service; U.S. Trade Representative (USTR); Labor, Dept of (DOL); White House Office; U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (USFWS)

Transportation TRA

Issues related to truck weights on federal highways; Safe, Flexible, and Efficient (SAFE) Trucking Act - HR 3488

Contacted: Labor, Dept of (DOL); U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (USFWS); Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ); Environmental Protection Agency (EPA); U.S. Trade Representative (USTR); HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; Agriculture, Dept of (USDA); SENATE; White House Office; Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS); U.S. Forest Service

Bills named: H.R. 3488 (114th)

Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace LBR

Issues related to the H2B immigration guestworker visa program.

Contacted: White House Office; U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (USFWS); Labor, Dept of (DOL); U.S. Trade Representative (USTR); Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ); Environmental Protection Agency (EPA); HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; U.S. Forest Service; Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS); Agriculture, Dept of (USDA); SENATE

Budget/Appropriations BUD

Issues related to the Interior Appropriations budget and related U.S. Forest Service budget

Contacted: U.S. Trade Representative (USTR); HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; Labor, Dept of (DOL); U.S. Forest Service; U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (USFWS); White House Office; Environmental Protection Agency (EPA); Agriculture, Dept of (USDA); Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ); Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS); SENATE

Taxation/Internal Revenue Code TAX

Legislation and regulation pertaining to the taxation of Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs); discussions related to draft tax reform proposals and their treatment of industrial timberlands

Contacted: White House Office; Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ); SENATE; U.S. Forest Service; HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; Labor, Dept of (DOL); U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (USFWS); U.S. Trade Representative (USTR); Agriculture, Dept of (USDA); Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS); Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

Environment/Superfund ENV

Issues related to the Endangered Species Act, climate change and carbon sequestration; issues related to forest certification; issues related to energy efficiency; issues related to taxpayer-funded construction of buildings

Contacted: White House Office; Agriculture, Dept of (USDA); U.S. Forest Service; U.S. Trade Representative (USTR); Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS); U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (USFWS); Environmental Protection Agency (EPA); HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ); SENATE; Labor, Dept of (DOL)

Energy/Nuclear ENG

Issues related to renewable energy, biofuels, biomass and bioenergy technologies; the carbon neutrality of biomass energy; EPA treatment of biogenic carbon in regulatory proceedings; building energy code programs; North American Energy Security and Infrastructure Act -HR 8; issues related to building with wood; Issues related to federal procurement environmental labels and forest certificaiton; S2012: The energy Policy Modernization Act (Amendment 2953 Biomass).

Contacted: U.S. Trade Representative (USTR); Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ); HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; Environmental Protection Agency (EPA); SENATE; White House Office; U.S. Forest Service; Agriculture, Dept of (USDA); Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS); Labor, Dept of (DOL); U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (USFWS)

Bills named: H.R. 8 (114th)

Clean Air and Water (quality) CAW

Issues related to pesticides and general NPDES permits; issues related to biomass emissions in relation to the Clean Air Act carbon neutrality; issues related to EPA's Waters of the U.S. Rule

Contacted: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA); Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS); Agriculture, Dept of (USDA); Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ); U.S. Forest Service; White House Office; HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; SENATE; Labor, Dept of (DOL); U.S. Trade Representative (USTR); U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (USFWS)

Natural Resources NAT

Issues related to the management, maintenance and harvest of private timberlands; issues related to management of federal forest lands; Endangered Species Act, including USF&WS proposed listing of the long-eared bat

Contacted: U.S. Trade Representative (USTR); HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS); Environmental Protection Agency (EPA); U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (USFWS); Agriculture, Dept of (USDA); SENATE; U.S. Forest Service; Labor, Dept of (DOL); White House Office; Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ)