Total Lobbying Effort

Hours Lobbied on Each Matter

• Legislative Bills/Resolutions

  Lobbying Effort On Legislative Bills And Resolutions

  Assembly Bill 1

  Relating to: regulation of ferrous metallic mining and related activities, procedures for obtaining approvals from the Department of Natural Resources for the construction of utility facilities, making an appropriation, and providing penalties. (FE)

  2013 January - June	2013 July - December	2014 January - June	2014 July - December	Total
  7.00 (10%)				7.00 (4%)

  Senate Bill 1

  Relating to: regulation of ferrous metallic mining and related activities, procedures for obtaining approvals from the Department of Natural Resources for the construction of utility facilities, making an appropriation, and providing penalties. (FE)

  2013 January - June	2013 July - December	2014 January - June	2014 July - December	Total
  7.00 (10%)				7.00 (4%)

  Senate Bill 302

  Relating to: high capacity well approvals. (FE)

  2013 January - June	2013 July - December	2014 January - June	2014 July - December	Total
  	7.00 (25%)	4.00 (20%)		11.00 (7%)

  Senate Bill 664

  Relating to: replacement and maintenance of existing culverts and design and engineering work for the construction and placement of certain culverts. (FE)

  2013 January - June	2013 July - December	2014 January - June	2014 July - December	Total
  		2.00 (10%)		2.00 (1%)

  Assembly Bill 680

  Relating to: adaptive management plans for reducing discharges of phosphorus and total suspended solids to the waters of the state and a statewide variance to the water quality standard for phosphorus for certain dischargers. (FE)

  2013 January - June	2013 July - December	2014 January - June	2014 July - December	Total
  		4.00 (20%)		4.00 (2%)

  Assembly Bill 700

  Relating to: eligibility requirements under the managed forest land program relating to parcel size and production of merchantable timber, management plans for managed forest lands, orders adding and withdrawing managed forest land, renewal of orders designating managed forest land, areas of managed forest lands that are open for public access, allowing managed forest lands to be used for recreational activities, regulation of cutting of timber on managed forest land and on forest croplands, withdrawal taxes and fees imposed on the withdrawal of managed forest land and yield taxes imposed for cutting timber from managed forest land, the sale or transfer of managed forest land, expiration of orders designating managed forest land, withdrawal of forest croplands that are held in trust for Indian tribes, a study of the managed forest land program, a report on exempt withdrawals from the managed forest land program and the forest cropland program, elimination of references to the woodland tax law, granting rule-making authority, requiring the exercise of rule-making authority, and providing a penalty. (FE)

  2013 January - June	2013 July - December	2014 January - June	2014 July - December	Total
  		4.00 (20%)		4.00 (2%)

  Senate Bill 632

  Relating to: local regulation of nonmetallic mining and preservation of marketable nonmetallic mineral deposits. (FE)

  2013 January - June	2013 July - December	2014 January - June	2014 July - December	Total
  		4.00 (20%)		4.00 (2%)

• Budget Bill Subjects

  Lobbying Effort On Budget Bill Subjects

  Natural Resources: Fish, Wildlife and Recreation

  2013 January - June	2013 July - December	2014 January - June	2014 July - December	Total
  7.00 (10%)			4.00 (10%)	11.00 (7%)

  Natural Resources: Departmentwide

  2013 January - June	2013 July - December	2014 January - June	2014 July - December	Total
  47.00 (65%)	19.00 (65%)		4.00 (10%)	70.00 (43%)

• Administrative Rulemaking Proceedings

  Lobbying Effort On Administrtive Rulemaking Proceedings

  Department of Natural Resources (NR)

  Revises Chapter NR 40, relating to invasive species. SS 016-12

  2013 January - June	2013 July - December	2014 January - June	2014 July - December	Total
  			4.00 (10%)	4.00 (2%)

• Topics Not Yet Assigned A Bill Or Rule Number

  Lobbying Effort On Topics Not Yet Assigned A Bill Or Rule Number

  2015-2016 Biennial Budget issues, Other legislative issues including groundwater, phosphorus, forestry practices, invasive species, connectivity, Steward Fund, Water utilities, mining, and wetlands.

  2013 January - June	2013 July - December	2014 January - June	2014 July - December	Total
  			24.30 (60%)	24.30 (15%)