• FY 09 Interior & Environment Approps bill, BLM, Realty and Ownership Mgmt and FY 09 Energy & Water Approps bill, Army Corp of Engineers, General Investigations. Planning Assistance to the States and FY 09 AG Appropriations Bill, Natural Resources Conservation Services, seeking funding for a federal-state cadastre pilot project in New Mexico. FY 09 Interior and Environment Approps Bill, funding for S.2739, the Natural Resources Consolidated Act of 2008, Sec. 505(3)(D), digital orthophotography.

Duration: February 1, 2007 to December 31, 2008

General Issues: Budget/Appropriations, Defense, Homeland Security, Real Estate/Land Use/Conservation

Spending: about $90,000 (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 2007: House of Representatives, U.S. Senate, U.S. Customs & Border Protection