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Legislative Progress
Introduced
July 21, 2015
Latest Action
July 22, 2015
Primary Sponsor
Eric A. "Rick" CrawfordRepublican(AR)
Momentum (last 30 days)
0
score
0 actions · 0 new cosponsors · 0 votes
Speed vs cohort
27pct
1d open
vs 6,526 other HR bills in the 114th — cohort avg 56d
Farmers Undertake Environmental Land Stewardship Act or the FUELS Act This bill directs the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to ease the application of the Spill Prevention, Control, and Countermeasure (SPCC) rule on certain farms. The rule requires certain non-transportation-related facilities to prevent, prepare, and respond to oil discharges that may reach navigable waters or adjoining shorelines. Among other requirements, the rule requires those facilities to: (1) certify compliance with their SPCC plans; and (2) based on the plan, construct containment facilities that would hold the contents of aboveground oil storage tanks if they should spill. The bill increases the oil storage thresholds that necessitate compliance with those requirements by raising the aggregate aboveground oil storage capacity thresholds for: (1) farms required to have an SPCC plan, (2) farms that self-certify their SPCC plan, and (3) farms that require a certification of their SPCC plan from a professional engineer. The bill also raises the aboveground oil storage capacity of containers that must be included in calculating the aggregate aboveground storage capacity.
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2015 · third_quarter · Agriculture
Implementation of H.R. 2642, the Agricultural Act of 2014 Comments with other agricultural commodity groups to USDA-FSA regarding the implementation of changes in the Conservation Reserve Program required by the Agricultural Act of 2014 Cotton industry requests for funding of select programs in FY 2016 Agriculture Appropriations bills (H.R. 3049 and S. 1800) WTO Doha Round multilateral trade negotiations, specifically concerning U.S. negotiating positions with respect to trade in agricultural products and disciplines on domestic support for agriculture Communications with Congress, USTR, USDA, State Department and Department of Commerce concerning the Turkish governments anti-dumping investigation of US cotton imports Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations and yarn forward rule of origin for textiles and apparel U.S.-E.U. free trade agreement negotiations H.R. 897 - Reducing Regulatory Burdens Act of 2015 H.R. 594 - Waters of the United States Regulatory Overreach Protection Act Issues related to the cottonseed industrys petition with EPA for a Renewable Identification Number Comments in response for the EPA federal register notice regarding the analysis of the greenhouse gas emissions attributable to the production and transport of cottonseed oil for use in biofuel production OSHA proposed rule to revise its Occupational Injury and Illness Recording and Reporting regulations Communications to members of Congress conveying opposition to any action impacting the utilization of biotechnology Contacts with EPA regarding pollinator risk assessment for pesticide registrations for cotton Meetings with USDA Agricultural Research Service regarding honey bee health research Comments in response to the EPA federal register notice regarding risk management approaches to identifying options for protecting the monarch butterfly H.R. 1105 - Death Tax Repeal Act of 2015 Participant in coalition letter to Senate Committee on Finance regarding the extension of certain expired tax policies Participant in coalition letter to the Senate and the House of Representatives regarding the extension of expired and expiring tax provisions H.R. 9 - Innovation Act H.R. 1599 - Safe and Accurate Food Labeling Act of 2015 H.R. 1732 - Regulatory Integrity Protection Act of 2015 S. 1140 - Federal Water Quality Protection Act H.R. 2289 - Commodity End-User Relief Act Final rule by EPA and US Army Corps of Engineers for defining jurisdiction of the Clean Water Act S. 1500 - Sensible Environmental Protection Act of 2015 H.R. 2898 - Western Water and American Food Security Act of 2015 S. 1894 - California Emergency Relief Act of 2015 S. 1660 - A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to modify and make permanent bonus depreciation S. 1946 - the Tax Relief Extension Act of 2015 Participant in coalition letter to Senate Committee on Finance regarding the renewal of tax provisions and passage of legislation to extend bonus depreciation S. 1298 - Port Transparency Act Participant in coalition letter to Senate Commerce, Science & Transportation Committee regarding the inclusion of the Ports Performance Act (S. 1298) as part of the Comprehensive Transportation and Consumer Protection Act of 2015 (S. 1732) S. 1647 - the Developing a Reliable and Innovative Vision for the Economy Act Participant in coalition letter to Senate regarding its multi-year surface transportation legislation Participant in coalition letter to the House of Representatives regarding the passage of multi-year surface transportation legislation H.R. 3129 - the Farmers Undertake Environmental Land Stewardship Act Comments in response to the US Trade Representatives notice regarding the proposed designation of Generalized System of Preferences for five cotton products from least developed beneficiary developing countries Participant in coalition letter to President Obama regarding engagement with China on agricultural innovation and trade Participant in coalition letter to Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs regarding the introduction of the Regulatory Accountability Act of 2015 (S. 2006) USDA-FSA approval of specification recommendations for cotton bale packaging materials Meetings with USDA-FAS regarding MAP and FMD and program funding allocations Meetings with EPA regarding review and approval of labels for dicamba and 2,4-D use on herbicide tolerant cotton varieties Meetings with USDA and Congress in support of policy for cottonseed Comments to the Department of Transportation-National Highway Traffic Safety Administrations proposed rule regarding the consideration of requirements for rear impact guards and other safety strategies on single unit trucks
Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
Introduced in House
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Client expense: $160,000 · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: Agriculture, Dept of (USDA), Commerce, Dept of (DOC), Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Food & Drug Administration (FDA), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Occupational Safety & Health Review Commission, SENATE, State, Dept of (DOS), Transportation, Dept of (DOT), U.S. Trade Representative (USTR)
| Republican |
| NC |
| Frank D. Lucas | Republican | OK |
| J. Randy Forbes | Republican | VA |
| Jeb Hensarling | Republican | TX |
| Jeff Duncan | Republican | SC |
| Jeff Fortenberry | Republican | NE |
| John Kline | Republican | MN |
| Kevin Cramer | Republican | ND |
| Markwayne Mullin | Republican | OK |
| Mick Mulvaney | Republican | SC |
| Mike Pompeo | Republican | KS |
| Ralph Lee Abraham | Republican | LA |
| Robert E. Latta | Republican | OH |
| Scott DesJarlais | Republican | TN |
| Tim Huelskamp | Republican | KS |
| Walter B. Jones | Republican | NC |