LD-2 disclosure · 3rd Quarter - Report
SELECT MILK PRODUCERS, INC.
Client
- Name
- SELECT MILK PRODUCERS, INC.
- Description
- Dairy producer cooperative providing marketing services to its member-owners.
- Location
- New Mexico · United States of America
Registrant
- Description
- Governmental relations
- Location
- Austin, Texas, United States of America
Lobbying activities
4 issuesAgriculture
No specific legislation yet filed, but communicated the need to reform the Margin Protection Program in the 2018 Farm Bill, and the importance of agricultural exports to Canada and Mexico.
Lobbyistsmr JAMES CLARK TERRELL iii
TargetedSENATE · HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES · Housing & Urban Development, Dept of (HUD) · Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
Communicated the need to expand existing investment tax credits for equipment used to collect biogas used to generate electricity to equipment used to in biogas projects that use the gas for other purposes, such as powering milk hauling trucks. In the same effort, promoted investment tax credits for agricultural nutrient resource recovery projects. Supported cosponsorship of HR 2853, the Environmental Stewardship Act of 2017, companion bill is S. 988.
Lobbyistsmr JAMES CLARK TERRELL iii
TargetedSENATE · HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES · Housing & Urban Development, Dept of (HUD) · Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Environment/Superfund
Generally communicated the importance of repealing and replacing the Waters of the U.S. Rule implemented by EPA. Also communicated the need for streaming HUD regulations related to CDBG program that require extensive environmental reviews be undertaken to satisfy HUD's specific format, when the dairy farm used as the related business development project had already received explicit permit authority from the EPA in the form of an NPDES permit.
