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Duration: September 15, 2008 to March 31, 2012

General Issues: Environmental/Superfund

Spending: about $0 (But it's complicated. Here's why.)

It can be tricky to figure out how much an organization spent on a particular lobbying engagement. The law only requires lobbyists to report the amount they were paid for federal lobbying each quarter rounded to the nearest $10,000—and if it's less than $3,000 in a given quarter (or less than $13,000 for organizations with in-house lobbyists), they don't have to disclose it at all. Plus, some organizations include spending that doesn’t belong in the report—for instance, money spent lobbying state governments or other legal work.

Agencies lobbied since 2008: House of Representatives, U.S. Senate, Agriculture - Dept of (USDA), Army - Dept of (Corps of Engineers), Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Commerce - Dept of (DOC), Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ), Interior - Dept of (DOI), U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (USFWS), U.S. Forest Service, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), Natl Park Service (NPS), President of the U.S., U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), American Battle Monuments Commission, Natl Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), White House Office, Office of Management & Budget (OMB), Office of Management & Budget (OMB),