• Increase funding to provide additional regulatory personnel at the US Army Corps of Engineers for the processing of applications for wetlands delineations, wetlands permits and wetlands and stream mitigation credit banks and the release of credits from those banks (H.R.4394 - Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2024 and S.2443 - Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2024).

Duration: August 11, 2022 to January 1, 2024

General Issues: 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 2022: U.S. Senate, House of Representatives

Affiliated organizations: Homebuilders Association of Virginia; Virginia Association for Commercial Real Estate