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Budget/Appropriations BUD

Issues related to the Interior Appropriations budget and related U.S. Forest Service budget; FY 2016 Interior & Environment Appropriations Bills; issues related to funding the Land and Water Conservation Fund.

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

Natural Resources NAT

Issues related to the management, maintenance and harvest of private timberlands; issues related to management of federal forest lands; Resilient Federal Forest Act of 2015 - HR 2647; National Forest Ecosystem Improvement Act of 2015 - S 1691.

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

Bills named: H.R. 2647 (114th)

Energy/Nuclear ENG

Issues related to renewable energy, biofuels, biomass and bioenergy technologies; the carbon neutrality of biomass energy; issues related to energy efficiency, issues related to EPA treatment of biogenic carbon in regulatory proceedings; and building energy code programs.

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

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

Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace LBR

Issues related to the H2B immigration guestworker visa program.

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

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; Working Forests for Clean Energy Act S1284; issues related to EPA's Waters of the U.S. Rule

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

Transportation TRA

Issues related to truck weights on federal highways.

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

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