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LOBBYING REPORT |
Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995 (Section 5) - All Filers Are Required to Complete This Page
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| Address1 | 2451 Crystal Drive |
Address2 | Suite 1000 |
| City | Arlington |
State | VA |
Zip Code | 22202 |
Country | USA |
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5. Senate ID# 3184-12
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6. House ID# 308500000
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| TYPE OF REPORT | 8. Year | 2019 |
Q1 (1/1 - 3/31) | Q2 (4/1 - 6/30) | Q3 (7/1 - 9/30) | Q4 (10/1 - 12/31) |
9. Check if this filing amends a previously filed version of this report
| 10. Check if this is a Termination Report | Termination Date |
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| Provide a good faith estimate, rounded to the nearest $10,000, of all lobbying related income for the client (including all payments to the registrant by any other entity for lobbying activities on behalf of the client). | 14. REPORTING Check box to indicate expense accounting method. See instructions for description of options. | ||||||||
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Reporting amounts using LDA definitions only
Method B. Reporting amounts under section 6033(b)(8) of the Internal Revenue Code Method C. Reporting amounts under section 162(e) of the Internal Revenue Code |
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| Signature | Digitally Signed By: Desmarie M. Waterhouse |
Date | 4/19/2019 4:14:24 PM |
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 potential cyber vulnerabilities that could arise from the supply chain and the need to ensure equipment used on the electric grid is secure.
Discussed APPAs cooperative agreement with the Department of Energy (DE-OE-0000811), Improving the Cyber Resiliency and Security Posture of Public Power, and how APPA is using funding to work with its members to improve their cyber hygiene.
Provided feedback on and support for H.R. 359, the Enhancing Grid Through Public-Private Partnerships Act, to permanently authorize program assisting small- and medium-sized electric utilities with grid security.
Discussed the electric utility industry's efforts to protect the grid and its close work with the federal government on cyber and physical security through the Electricity Subsector Coordinating Council.
Provided feedback and support for H.R. 2114, the State Energy Security Planning and Emergency Preparedness Act.
Provided feedback on draft legislation, the Grid Cybersecurity Research and Development Act, which would direct cyber research at the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
Provided feedback on S. 881, the Space Weather Research and Forecasting Act, which would among other things safeguard infrastructure from space weather events.
Discussed public powers concerns about rising transmission costs and the need for a proper determination about whether a project upgrade is actually needed.
Discussed FERC docket RM 18-09 and the need for state and local regulators to be able to consent to aggregation of DERs on distribution systems in their jurisdictions. Also discussed the particular burdens the proposed rule would have on small utilities.
Discussed developments in Western markets, including the impact of PG&Es bankruptcy on Western Market participants.
Discussed support for the inclusion of language to improve the hydropower licensing and relicensing reform process in an energy title to an infrastructure bill or as stand-alone legislation.
Discussed support for language in draft legislation to carve out federal hydropower facilities from the definition of eligible federal facilities that can use energy savings performance contracts.
Discussed support for the inclusion of language in an energy title of an infrastructure bill to fund pilot projects on advanced distribution system management technologies.
Discussed support for the inclusion of language to improve the siting of interstate natural gas pipelines in an energy title of an infrastructure bill.
Discussed concerns with mandatory capacity markets in the Eastern RTOs and the need to ensure public powers ability to self-supply power in those markets.
Discussed concerns with any proposed attempts by Congress to federalize rate design and how public power is working with its customers to enable distributed energy resources.
Discussed support for H.R. 1502, the PURPA Modernization Act.
17. House(s) of Congress and Federal agencies Check if None
U.S. SENATE, U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), Homeland Security - Dept of (DHS), Energy - Dept of
18. Name of each individual who acted as a lobbyist in this issue area
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Desmarie |
Waterhouse |
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Amy |
Thomas |
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Bryson |
Wong |
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John |
Godfrey |
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Andrew |
Wills |
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19. Interest of each foreign entity in the specific issues listed on line 16 above Check if None
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 support for the restoration of advance refunding bonds, including draft legislation to do so.
Discussed support for ending the sequestration of Build America Bonds.
Discussed the need for comparable incentives for public power investments in clean energy and energy storage.
Discussed the need to increase the small-issuer exemption to $30M.
Discussed the need to simplify private-use rules for municipal bonds.
Discussed the importance of tax-exempt financing for public power infrastructure investments.
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
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Godfrey |
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Desmarie |
Waterhouse |
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19. Interest of each foreign entity in the specific issues listed on line 16 above Check if None
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 ENG
16. Specific lobbying issues
Lobbied in support of repealing and replacing of Section 433 of Energy Independence and Security Act in draft legislation.
Discussed electric vehicles and the development of charging infrastructure by public power utilities. Expressed support for S. 674, the Clean Corridors Act of 2019, and the inclusion of similar language in an infrastructure bill.
Lobbied on the need for a permanent repository for spent nuclear waste.
Discussed S. 903, the Nuclear Energy Leadership Act.
17. House(s) of Congress and Federal agencies Check if None
U.S. SENATE, U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Energy - Dept of
18. Name of each individual who acted as a lobbyist in this issue area
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Wills |
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Bryson |
Wong |
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Desmarie |
Waterhouse |
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19. Interest of each foreign entity in the specific issues listed on line 16 above Check if None
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 APPAs cooperative agreement with the Department of Energy (DE-OE-0000811), Improving the Cyber Resiliency and Security Posture of Public Power and how APPA is using funding to work with its members to improve their cyber hygiene. Requested continued funding for Cybersecurity for Energy Delivery Systems program in DOE's fiscal year 2020 budget.
Discussed APPAs opposition to President Trumps fiscal year 2020 budget proposal to divest the transmission assets of the Power Marketing Administrations (PMAs) and Tennessee Valley Authority and to require the PMAs to charge market-based rates.
Discussed public power support for adequate funding for the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program in fiscal year 2020.
Lobbied for increased funding to the Environmental Protection Agency for federal and state permitting programs for coal combustion residuals in fiscal year 2020.
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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Godfrey |
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Amy |
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Bryson |
Wong |
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Desmarie |
Waterhouse |
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19. Interest of each foreign entity in the specific issues listed on line 16 above Check if None
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 public power's support for modernizing the Endangered Species Act (ESA).
Discussed the Upper Colorado and San Juan Fish Recovery programs and how they help public power utilities in the West with ESA compliance.
Expressed support for the reauthorization of the Recovery Implementation Program in S. 47, the Natural Resources Management Act.
Discussed the need for congressional oversight of the Bureau of Land Managements (BLM) and U.S. Forest Services implementation of the vegetation management provisions included in P.L. 115-141.
Discussed the need for consistency between BLM regions and between BLM and the U.S. Forest Service in their implementation of the vegetation management provisions included in P.L. 115-141.
Expressed support for reforms to the National Environmental Policy Act.
17. House(s) of Congress and Federal agencies Check if None
U.S. SENATE, U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Interior - Dept of (DOI)
18. Name of each individual who acted as a lobbyist in this issue area
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Bryson |
Wong |
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19. Interest of each foreign entity in the specific issues listed on line 16 above Check if None
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 AVI
16. Specific lobbying issues
Discussed the implementation of the drone provisions included in the FAA Reauthorization Act of 2018 (P.L. 115-254).
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
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Andrew |
Wills |
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19. Interest of each foreign entity in the specific issues listed on line 16 above Check if None
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 TEC
16. Specific lobbying issues
Discussed the exemption in Section 224 of the Communications Act that precludes Federal Communications Commission (FCC) regulation of public power pole attachments. Expressed opposition to any attempt to repeal or weaken the exemption.
Expressed support for H.R. 530, the Accelerating Broadband Development by Empowering Local Communities Act of 2019, to repeal the FCC's report and order that seeks to regulate public power pole attachments.
Discussed H.R. 1421, the HANGUP Act, that would subject the federal government to liability under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) and how it could impact public power utilities.
Discussed the FCCs open docket on automated telephone dialer systems (FCC CG Docket Nos. 18-152 and 02-278) and how it could impact public power utilities.
Discussed public powers concerns with FCC proceeding to open the 6 GHz band to unlicensed users (FCC ET Docket No. 18-295 and GN Docket No. 17-183).
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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Andrew |
Wills |
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19. Interest of each foreign entity in the specific issues listed on line 16 above Check if None
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 the need to amend the Stafford Act to allow Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) disaster mitigation funding of projects for which work has already begun. Discussed the need for timely payment of FEMA public assistance grants.
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
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19. Interest of each foreign entity in the specific issues listed on line 16 above Check if None
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 what public power utilities are doing to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions and support for policies that would reduce emissions, such as energy efficiency, the promotion of hydropower and nuclear power, and the promotion of electric vehicles.
Expressed support for reexamining the Waters of the U.S. Rule finalized by the Environmental Protection Agency and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
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
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Desmarie |
Waterhouse |
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19. Interest of each foreign entity in the specific issues listed on line 16 above Check if None
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AFFILIATED ORGANIZATIONS
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26. Name of each previously reported organization that is no longer affiliated with the registrant or client
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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
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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?
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