lobbying_activities: 1227775

Individual lobbying activities reported in quarterly filings. Each row is one issue area for one client — includes the specific issues lobbied on, government entities contacted, and income/expense amounts.

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id	filing_uuid	filing_type	registrant_name	registrant_id	client_name	filing_year	filing_period	issue_code	specific_issues	government_entities	income_amount	expense_amount	is_no_activity	is_termination	received_date
1227775	2127d2c7-39d5-4958-96f7-5fa54d0b2010	Q1	NATIONAL WOODEN PALLET AND CONTAINER ASSOCIATION	67832	NATIONAL WOODEN PALLET AND CONTAINER ASSOCIATION	2012	first_quarter	MAN	1/18/12 met with US Postal Service: Scholnick, Wanamaker Deomano. Cathy Mood, Manager, Mail Transport Equipment, Cindy Mallonee, Manager, Logistics. Two additional attendees not identified. Discussion: NWPCA gave an overview of our industry (size & composition) a history of our effoets with USPS including establishing a reporting website feature, and private sector business relationaship s between pallet pools and recyclers. Encouraged the agency to deveop and asset recovery sysem using the already the already existing infrastructure of pallet recycling companies, with some level of compensation for collecting, sorting, storing and returning USPS pallets. 2/1/12 Scholnick, Deomano, & Wanamaker met with Rebecca Bech, Deputy Administrator for APHIS Plant Protection & Quarantine. Also there was Paul Chaloux, APHIS National Program Manager, Emerald Ash Borer Discussed the competitive disadvantage for members in quarantine areas through the piecemeal approach to regulations. Talked about the advantages of having a voluntary program recognized by APHIS rather than the Agriculture Marketing Service as previously discussed.	Agriculture, Dept of (USDA)			0	0	2012-04-16T12:33:17.840000-04:00