AMERICAN PUBLIC POWER ASSOCIATION for AMERICAN PUBLIC POWER ASSOCIATION

Agriculture AGR

Farm bill (H.R. 2419)

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

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

Railroads RRR

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

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

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

Utilities UTI

Technology research and development; carbon capture and storage, including the Boucher CCS bill (H.R. 6258); transmission siting and operation; cyber security (including draft Dingell-Boucher cyber-security bill); energy efficiency; smart metering/smart grid; electricity markets; theft of copper wire used by utilities

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

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

Taxation/Internal Revenue Code TAX

Clean Renewable Energy Bonds, H.R. 6049 (included in energy tax extenders bill passed in October); 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).

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

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

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

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

Budget/Appropriations BUD

Renewable Energy Production Incentive (REPI); energy research and development programs; energy efficiency programs; Power Marketing Administrations.

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

Environment/Superfund ENV

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

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

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

Energy/Nuclear ENG

Wholesale electricity markets (including Sanders-Snowe bill, S. 2660); energy efficiency; "smart" grid; transmission siting; implementation of 2007 energy bill; natural gas markets; transferrable tax credit for new nuclear for public power.

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

Bills named: S. 2660 (110th)

Clean Air and Water (quality) CAW

Climate change; Clean Air Act issues (vacation of CAIR rule and legislative implications); water issues related to electric utility generation and carbon, capture and storage.

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