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2007-08 Letters & Testimony

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WGA Chair & Vice Chair
Congress
April 17, 2008
definition of biomass for energy projects
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Tony Willardson, Deputy Director, Western States Water Council -- testimony on behalf of WGA & WSWC
Senate Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee On Water And Power
April 17, 2008
Aging water infrastructure
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Susan Cottingham, Director, Montana Reserved Water Rights Compact Commission -- testimony on behalf of WGA & WSWC
House Natural Resources Committee, Subcommittee On Water And Power
April 16, 2008
Reserved Indian Water Rights

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Gov. Freudenthal, WGA Chairman
Robert Johnson, BuRec Commissioner
April 15, 2008
Funding for Managing Invasive Salt Cedar and Russian Olive Trees
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Gov. Napolitano testimony
House Natural Resources Committee
April 10, 2008
FLAME Act -- wildfire suppression funding
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Governors Ritter, Napolitano & Huntsman
Congressional leadership
April 9, 2008
H-1B, H-2B and H-2A visas for foreign workers
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Multiple organizations, including WGA
House Appropriations Committee
April 7, 2008
Support for FLAME Act
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Four Regional Organizations, including WGA
Representative Jay Inslee
April 4, 2008
Authorization for federal biomass partnership program
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Multiple organizations, including WGA
House Appropriations Committee
March 13, 2008
FY09 Funding for Wildfire Programs
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WGA Chair, Vice Chair and Lead Governor
President, Administration officials, Congressional Committees of jurisdiction
February 1, 2008
Wildfire suppression funding
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WGA Chair & Vice Chair
Senate Leadership
December 12, 2007
Pending energy legislation
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WGA Chair & Vice Chair
House and Senate Leadership
December 6, 2007
Pending energy legislation
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Govs. Napolitano, Rounds, Ritter & Richardson
Rep. Udall & Rep. Pearce
November 12, 2007
Support for Good Samaritan cleanup bill (HR4011)
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Govs. Gregoire & Rounds
Interested parties
November 1, 2007
American Indian/Alaskan Native Healthcare
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Govs. Rounds, Richardson and Schweitzer
President Bush
October 24, 2007
Funding for NIDIS
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WGA Chair & Vice Chair
House Speaker Pelosi
October 15, 2007
Secure Rural Schools and PILT funding
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Govs. Freudenthal, Huntsman and Napolitano
Senator Baucus
September 21, 2007
Wildfire funding
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WGA Chair and Vice Chair
The Honorable Nick Rahall, Chairman, Committee on Natural Resources
July 31, 2007
Secure Rural Schools and the Payments in Lieu of Taxes program
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WGA Chair and Vice Chair
House Agriculture Committee chairman and ranking member
June 26, 2007
2007 Farm Bill
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Govs. Rounds, Napolitano, Richardson and Ritter
EPA Administrator
June 26, 2007
EPA's new administrative tools to encourage abandoned mine cleanup
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Governors Huntsman, Napolitano & Schwarzenegger
Senator Reid
June 22, 2007
Immigration reform legislation
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Kirk Rowdabaugh, Arizona State Forester
Natural Resources Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands
June 19, 2007
Wilfire Preparedness: An Ounce of Prevention is Worth a Pound of Cure
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WGA Chair and Vice Chair
Rep. Rahall, Chairman of House Resources Committee
June 12, 2007
timetable for development of oil shale industry
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WGA Chair and Vice Chair
Senate Interior Appropriations Chair and Ranking Member
June 12, 2007
proposed shift of mineral lease administrative costs to states
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WGA Chair and Vice Chair
Representatives Rahall and Young
June 6, 2007
legislation conditioning siting of wind energy facilities
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WGA Chair and Vice Chair
Representatives Rahall and Young
June 5, 2007
support of revision to categorical exclusion for oil and gas exploration and development activities
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WGA Chair and Vice Chair
Representatives Udall and Inglis
June 5, 2007
funding for U.S. Global Change Research Program
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WGA Chairman
Interior Secretary Kempthorne
May 21, 2007
Use of coal AML funds to restore hardrock AML sites
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WGA Chairman Governor Rounds
Frank J. Fahrenkopf, Jr. & Paul G. Kirk, Jr. -- Commission on Presidential Debates
May 18, 2007
Presidential candidate debates
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Govs. Rounds, Napolitano, Richardson and Ritter
Attorney General Gonzales and EPA Administrator Johnson
May 15, 2007
Analysis of options for allowing Good Samaritan cleanups of abandoned mines
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13 Governors
House and Senate leadership and leadership of Appropriations committees
May 17, 2007
Funding for PILT and Secure Rural Schools programs
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Sarah Bittleman, D.C. Director for Gov. Kulongoski testified on behalf of WGA
House Committee on Science and Technology
May 3, 2007
Federal climate change research
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WGA Chair and Vice Chair
Appropriations Committee Chairs & Ranking Members
May 2, 2007
Agriculture appropriations priorities
Interior and Environment appropriations priorities
Commerce and Justice appropriations priorities
Energy and Water appropriations priorities

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John Emmerich, Deputy Director, Wyoming Game & Fish Department
Joint Congressional Oversight Hearing
April 26, 2007
Land-Use Issues Associated with Onshore Oil and Gas Development
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Leadership of WGA, CSG-WEST, WIR-NACo & WML
Chairmen, Democratic National Committee & Republican National Committee
April 11, 2007
Presidential candidate debates and forums in the West
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Governors Freudenthal, Napolitano & Richardson
Senator Crapo
March 28, 2007
Introduction of ESA legislation
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Kirk Rowdabaugh, State Forester of Arizona, on behalf of WGA
Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources
January 30, 2007
Controlling Wildfire Suppression Costs
(see also testimony of James Caswell, Director, ID Office of Species Conservation)
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WGA Chair, Vice Chair and Energy Co-Leads
House Speaker Pelosi & Senate Majority Leader Reid
January 29, 2007
Priority clean and diverse energy legislation
   

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