Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995 (Section 5) - All Filers Are Required to Complete This Page

9. Check if this filing amends a previously filed version of this report

LOBBYING ACTIVITY. Select as many codes as necessary to reflect the general issue areas in which the registrant engaged in lobbying on behalf of the client during the reporting period. Using a separate page for each code, provide information as requested. Add additional page(s) as needed.

15. General issue area code UTI

16. Specific lobbying issues

Discussed support for H.R. 7266, the Rural and Municipal Utility Cybersecurity Act (all provisions) to reauthorize the Rural and Municipal Utility Grant and Technical Assistance (RMUC) Program as authorized in section 40124 of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act of 2021.

Discussed general APPA support for hydropower licensing and relicensing reform, including amending section 4(e) of the Federal Power Act (16 USC ch. 12) to limit mandatory conditions and fishway prescriptions and section 241 of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (P.L. 109-58) to extend trial-type hearing rights to alternative conditions under section 33 of the Federal Power Act (no legislation).

Discussed the need to amend sections 4(e) and 18 of the Federal Power Act so that mandatory conditions and fishway prescriptions address only direct project effects, like those from the construction, operation, or maintenance of the licensed project (no legislation).

Discussed support for S. 3518, the Fair Licensing for Operations of Water Structures (FLOWS) Act of 2025, to amend the Federal Power Act to address certain alterations in, and the maintenance and repair of, project works, to provide for the licensing of micro hydrokinetic energy projects (all provisions).

Discussed support for H.R. 9337, the Hydropower Licensing Affordability Act, to amend the Federal Power Act to modernize the hydropower licensing process (all provisions).

Discussed the need for permitting reform, including changes to the National Environmental Policy Act and other environmental statutes, to help expedite the siting and permitting of energy projects to meet rising electricity demand (no legislation).

Discussed concerns with sections 401 and 402 in S. 4753, the Energy Permitting Reform Act of 2024, which would expand the Federal Energy Regulatory Commissions jurisdiction over non-jurisdictional entities under section 201(f) of the Federal Power Act.

Discussed how interregional transmission planning should be left to each region of the country rather than imposing a one-size-fits-all federal mandate for each region to maintain a minimum level of transfer capability with its neighbors (no legislation).

Discussed maintaining the existing beneficiary-pays cost allocation principle for transmission under the Federal Power Act to require the costs of a transmission project to be allocated to beneficiaries in a way that is roughly commensurate with the estimated benefits (no legislation).

Discussed general support for legislation that would remove duplicative National Environmental Policy Act requirements for the National Interest Electric Transmission Corridor designation and siting processes (no legislation).

Discussed H.R. 7786, the SPEED & Reliability Act (all provisions), from the 118th Congress, to remove duplicative National Environmental Policy Act requirements for the National Interest Electric Transmission Corridor designation and siting processes.

Discussed H.R. 6633, the High-Capacity Grid Act (all provisions), to establish a best-available transmission conductor standard for certain transmission projects under the Federal Power Act and to provide for presumptions regarding cost recovery for such conductors.

Discussed support for H.R. 3616/S. 3034, the Reliable Power Act, to give the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission the authority to determine and mitigate the significant reliability impacts of major federal regulations (all provisions).

Discussed H.R. 9332, the Load Forecasting Enhancement Act, to require the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to establish regional joint boards to study electric load forecasting. Discussed technical assistance for public power utilities for load forecasting.

Discussed H.R. 9340, the Ratepayer Protection Act, to amend the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 to establish a federal standard relating to the recovery of the full, incremental costs of upgrades that serve large-load customers (all provisions).

Discussed Winter Storm Fern and the use of section 202(c) orders by the Department of Energy to ensure grid reliability.

Discussed grid enhancing technologies and their potential ability to improve grid reliability but should only be deployed where there are clear reliability and consumer benefits (no legislation).

Discussed support for joint ownership of transmission facilities to help facilitate transmission development while keeping costs affordable for electricity customers (no legislation).

Provided feedback on draft transmission legislation to make changes to the Federal Power Act that would, among other things, expand the Federal Energy Regulatory Commissions authority over public power utilities and increase costs for their customers.

Provided feedback on draft legislation, the State Energy Oversight Act, on performance-based ratemaking.

Discussed the need for permitting reform efforts to be technology neutral (no bill).

Discussed support for H.R. 8308, the Create Expedited Reviews to Transform American Infrastructure Now (CERTAIN) Act, to reduce permitting delays and create a more predictable environment for infrastructure development (all provisions).

Discussed the importance of coordination between the military and public power utilities that serve them (no legislation).

Discussed issues related to defense critical electric infrastructure, including the importance of coordination between the military and Department of Energy (no legislation).

Discussed existing cooperative agreements with the Department of Energy (DE-CR0000007, DE-CR0000015, and DE-CR0000026.

Discussed the Executive Order on Artificial Intelligence.

Discussion of distribution transformer supply chain challenges (no legislation).

Discussed the impact of federal trade policies on supply chains for public power utilities (no legislation).

Discussed supply chain issues facing public power utilities and the significant cost increases they are seeing for key electrical equipment that can only be acquired abroad (no legislation).

Discussed the importance of the Tennessee Valley Authority to public power utilities served by it.

Discussed the public power business model (no legislation).

Discussed energy affordability and all the actions public power utilities take to keep electricity affordable for their customers and to assist those in need (no legislation).

Discussed how public power utilities are working to ensure their customers do not bear the costs of serving large computational loads (no legislation).

Discussed issues related to data center affordability and support for efforts to protect affordability and reliability, as well as ensuring a voice for public power in evaluating governance issues (FERC Docket RM26-4 and AD26-7).

Discussed strategies to address the growing burden of transmission costs, including joint ownership and the elimination of transmission incentives.

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U.S. SENATE, U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Energy - Dept of, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), Defense - Dept of (DOD), Intl Trade Administration (ITA)

18. Name of each individual who acted as a lobbyist in this issue area

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LOBBYING ACTIVITY. Select as many codes as necessary to reflect the general issue areas in which the registrant engaged in lobbying on behalf of the client during the reporting period. Using a separate page for each code, provide information as requested. Add additional page(s) as needed.

15. General issue area code TAX

16. Specific lobbying issues

Discussed possible regulations to implement section 26 USC 7701(a)(51)(D)(i)(l)(dd), prohibited foreign entity debt test (15 percent).

Discussed support for regulations implementing 26 USC 7701(51)(D)(i)(I)(dd) regarding the prohibited foreign entity debt test (15 percent) to exempt publicly offered debt or stipulate that the underwriter of publicly offered debt is the issuee for purposes of the text.

Discussed support of possible changes to 26 CFR 1.141-7, Special Rules for Output Facilities, to accommodate long-term customized commercial contracts and acquisition of existing output facilities to serve large load customers.

Discussed support for elective payment of energy tax credits in the Inflation Reduction Act (26 USC 6817).

Discussed concerns with implementation of the domestic content requirements necessary to access elective pay provisions in the Inflation Reduction Act (Pub. Law 117-169, sections 13101(g)(2), 13102(l), 13701, and 13702).

Discussed support for simplifying the qualification for elective payment under 26 USC 6417 (no legislation).

Discussed support for H.R. 2160/S. 1183, the Maintaining and Enhancing Hydroelectricity and River Restoration Act, to establish tax credits environmental and safety upgrades at non-federal hydropower projects (all provisions).

Discussed support for H.R. 1255, the Investing in Our Communities Act, legislation that would enable public power utilities to better manage the debt they use to finance critical infrastructure investments (all provisions).

Discussed the importance of municipal bonds, which are used by public power utilities to build energy infrastructure.

Discussed support for S. 1481, the Lifting Our Communities through Advanced Liquidity for Infrastructure Act, legislation that would enable public power utilities to better manage the debt they use to finance critical infrastructure investments (all provisions).

Discussed opposition to potential legislation to amend, in whole or in part, 26 USC 103, tax exemption for municipal bonds.

Discussed support for potential legislation to increase the $10 million small issue threshold in 26 USC 265(b)(3) to $30 million.

Discussed opposition to proposed changes to tax-exempt financing to encourage the privatization of public infrastructure through asset recycling (no legislation).

Discussed the potential effect of energy and natural gas prepayment transactions on tax-exempt financing.

17. House(s) of Congress and Federal agencies Check if None

U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, U.S. SENATE, Treasury - Dept of, Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC)

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LOBBYING ACTIVITY. Select as many codes as necessary to reflect the general issue areas in which the registrant engaged in lobbying on behalf of the client during the reporting period. Using a separate page for each code, provide information as requested. Add additional page(s) as needed.

15. General issue area code NAT

16. Specific lobbying issues

Discussed support for H.R. 471/S. 1462, the Fix Our Forests Act, including section 204 in the House bill to provide categorical exclusion for vegetation management along power line rights-of-way on federal lands.

Discussed the need for action on categorical exclusions for vegetation management along power line corridors. Also discussed strict liability for utilities operating on public lands for wildfires.

Discussed the importance of the federal Power Marketing Administrations that provide federal hydropower to public power utilities and opposition to any attempts to privatize them in whole or in part.

Discussed support for S. 1034/H.R. 2432, the Southwestern Power Administration Fund Establishment Act (all provisions).

Discussed support for the acting commissioner of the Bureau of Reclamation to release funds in the Colorado River Dam Fund for the acquisition of wide head turbines at Hoover Dam as directed to in the report language accompanying H.R. 6938, the Energy & Water Development Appropriations Act, 2026.

Discussed the need to exempt the Boulder Canyon Dam Project from the Federal Lands Recreation Enhancement Act (P.L. 108‑447), which would give the Bureau of Reclamation the ability to collect entry fees at Hoover Dam (no legislation).

17. House(s) of Congress and Federal agencies Check if None

U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, U.S. SENATE, U.S. Forest Service

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LOBBYING ACTIVITY. Select as many codes as necessary to reflect the general issue areas in which the registrant engaged in lobbying on behalf of the client during the reporting period. Using a separate page for each code, provide information as requested. Add additional page(s) as needed.

15. General issue area code BUD

16. Specific lobbying issues

Discussed support for increased funding for the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program and efforts to ensure the timely disbursement of funds to states (LIHEAP)(no legislation).

Discussed support for section 4 of H.R. 7147, the Homeland Security and Further Additional Continuing Appropriations Act, 2026, which incorporates by reference the Joint Explanatory Statement that prescribes Federal Emergency Management Agency actions regarding disaster designations, BRIC grants, public assistance payments, and staffing.

17. House(s) of Congress and Federal agencies Check if None

U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, U.S. SENATE

18. Name of each individual who acted as a lobbyist in this issue area

19. Interest of each foreign entity in the specific issues listed on line 16 above Check if None

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LOBBYING ACTIVITY. Select as many codes as necessary to reflect the general issue areas in which the registrant engaged in lobbying on behalf of the client during the reporting period. Using a separate page for each code, provide information as requested. Add additional page(s) as needed.

15. General issue area code DIS

16. Specific lobbying issues

Discussed concerns with proposed changes to the operation of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) as proposed by the FEMA Reform Council in its Final Report (changes to disaster designation methodology, public assistance calculations, and converting public assistance into block grants).

Discussed support for H.R. 4669, the FEMA Act (all provisions), including section 101 on rebuilding public infrastructure.

17. House(s) of Congress and Federal agencies Check if None

U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, U.S. SENATE

18. Name of each individual who acted as a lobbyist in this issue area

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LOBBYING ACTIVITY. Select as many codes as necessary to reflect the general issue areas in which the registrant engaged in lobbying on behalf of the client during the reporting period. Using a separate page for each code, provide information as requested. Add additional page(s) as needed.

15. General issue area code ENV

16. Specific lobbying issues

Discussed support for H.R. 4776, the SPEED Act, to reform permitting processes under the National Environmental Policy Act (all provisions).

Discussed support for H.R. 4503, the ePermit Act, to digitize the federal permitting process for environmental reviews.

Discussed support for H.R. 1897, the ESA Amendments Act of 2025, to amend the Endangered Species Act of 1973 to optimize conservation through resource prioritization, incentivize wildlife conservation on private lands, provide for greater incentives to recover listed species, create greater transparency and accountability in recovering listed species, streamline the permitting process, eliminate barriers to conservation, and restore congressional intent.

17. House(s) of Congress and Federal agencies Check if None

U.S. SENATE, U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

18. Name of each individual who acted as a lobbyist in this issue area

19. Interest of each foreign entity in the specific issues listed on line 16 above Check if None

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LOBBYING ACTIVITY. Select as many codes as necessary to reflect the general issue areas in which the registrant engaged in lobbying on behalf of the client during the reporting period. Using a separate page for each code, provide information as requested. Add additional page(s) as needed.

15. General issue area code COM

16. Specific lobbying issues

Discussed an amendment to reinforce the municipal exemption in section 224 of the Communications Act of 1934, as amended, to H.R. 2289, the Proportional Review for Broadband Deployment Act, to use section 253 of the Communications Act of 1934 to effectively expand federal control over public power pole attachments.

17. House(s) of Congress and Federal agencies Check if None

U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

18. Name of each individual who acted as a lobbyist in this issue area

19. Interest of each foreign entity in the specific issues listed on line 16 above Check if None

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LOBBYING ACTIVITY. Select as many codes as necessary to reflect the general issue areas in which the registrant engaged in lobbying on behalf of the client during the reporting period. Using a separate page for each code, provide information as requested. Add additional page(s) as needed.

15. General issue area code CAW

16. Specific lobbying issues

Discussed support for H.R. 3898, the PERMIT Act, to improve the permitting process for infrastructure projects under the Clean Water Act, the provision regarding nationwide permitting and the determination of the appropriate acreage threshold for discharges into WOTUS, and the provision regarding section 18 statutory exclusion from the regulatory definition of WOTUS for waste treatment systems.

Discussed H.R. 1267, the PFAS Water Systems Liability Act, regarding how utilities are passive receivers of PFAS.

Discussed the zero-liquid discharge requirements for certain waste streams under the Environmental Protection Agencys Steam Electric Effluent Limitation Guidelines (EPA-HQ-OW-2009-0819).

Discussed Clean Water Act section 401 water quality certification rule and its importance to the power sector (EPA-HQ-OW-2025-2929).

Discussed the importance of issuing a final rule defining Waters of the United States quickly (EPA-HQ-OW-2025-0322).

Discussed EPAs proposed repeal of the Greenhouse Gas Standards for Fossil Fuel Fired Electric Generating Units (EPA-HQ-OAR-2025-0124; FRL-12674-01-OAR).

Discussed support for the National Environmental Policy Act and Clean Water Act provisions in S. 4994, the American Energy and Mineral Infrastructure Act, to streamline permitting under the Natural Gas Act, the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, and the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969.

17. House(s) of Congress and Federal agencies Check if None

U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), U.S. SENATE, Office of Management & Budget (OMB)

18. Name of each individual who acted as a lobbyist in this issue area

19. Interest of each foreign entity in the specific issues listed on line 16 above Check if None

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Information Update Page - Complete ONLY where registration information has changed.

20. Client new address

21. Client new principal place of business (if different than line 20)

22. New General description of client’s business or activities

LOBBYIST UPDATE

23. Name of each previously reported individual who is no longer expected to act as a lobbyist for the client

ISSUE UPDATE

24. General lobbying issue that no longer pertains

AFFILIATED ORGANIZATIONS

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Internet Address:

26. Name of each previously reported organization that is no longer affiliated with the registrant or client

FOREIGN ENTITIES

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28. Name of each previously reported foreign entity that no longer owns, or controls, or is affiliated with the registrant, client or affiliated organization

CONVICTIONS DISCLOSURE

29. Have any of the lobbyists listed on this report been convicted in a Federal or State Court of an offense involving bribery, extortion, embezzlement, an illegal kickback, tax evasion, fraud, a conflict of interest, making a false statement, perjury, or money laundering?
No Yes