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2008 & 2009 Letters & Testimony

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WGA Chair & Vice Chair
Western electric utility CEOs
January 6, 2009
Collaboration on western electricity issues

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WGA Chair & Vice Chair
President-elect Obama
November 21, 2008
Calls for swift adoption, implementation of national energy plan
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Governors Napolitano & Huntsman, co-lead Governors on Forest Health
House and Senate appropriations committee leadership
September 17, 2008
support for supplemental funding to repay non-wildfire forest accounts for funding used to fight wildfires this year
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WGA Chair & Vice Chair
Jim Caswell, BLM Director
July 10, 2007
Support for rescinding decision to stop accepting applications for solar permits
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Governors Napolitano & Huntsman, co-lead Governors on Forest Health
House and Senate committee leadership and bill sponsors
July 8, 2008
Support for Forest Landscape Restoration Act of 2007
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WGA Transportation Co-lead Governors (MT, NM, SD, UT, WA & WY)
House and Senate Leadership
June 23, 2008
highway funding
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WGA Chair & Vice Chair
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
June 23, 2008
Comments on possible listing of Greater Sage Grouse under the provisions of the Endangered Species Act.
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WGA Chair & Vice Chair
Senators Byrd and Cochran and Congressmen Obey and Lewis
May 19, 2008
FY2009 funding for Forest Service State and Private Forestry programs
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WGA Chair & Vice Chair
Members of the Western Electric Industry Leaders Group
May 19, 2008
cooperation on the region's energy future
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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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