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Letters and Comments Jun 14, 2018

Dear Mr. Stringer – On behalf of Divestment Facts, a project of the Independent Petroleum Association of America (IPAA), I’m writing in response to the Request for Information (RFI) on Mayor Bill de Blasio’s proposal to divest $5 billion in fossil fuel assets from the New York City Retirement System (NYCRS), which includes five separate pension funds.

Letters and Comments Jun 8, 2018

Dear Chairman Barrasso: The Independent Petroleum Association of America (IPAA) writes to express its support for the Endangered Species Act Amendments of 2018. IPAA believes both exploration and development of America’s oil and natural gas resources and conservation can coexist through reasonable and balanced wildlife policy. Your legislation would aid in the modernization of the 1973 Endangered Species Act to benefit not only species recovery, but also the regulated community.

Letters and Comments May 24, 2018

Dear Governor Northam: The undersigned trade organizations represent businesses and workers who build and provide equipment, materials, supplies and services to energy infrastructure projects. Prominent among those projects is the Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP), which will provide Virginians with greatly expanded access to affordable and reliable natural gas and the clean power it provides.

Letters and Comments May 21, 2018

This letter provides comments from the American Petroleum Institute (“API”), Association of Oil Pipe Lines (“AOPL”), American Exploration & Production Council (“AXPC”), Independent Petroleum Association of America (“IPAA”), the Domestic Energy Producers Alliance (“DEPA”), and the Marcellus Shale Coalition (“MSC”) – (collectively, “the Associations”), responding to the Environmental Protection Agency’s (“EPA’s” or “The Agency’s”) Request for Comments on Clean Water Act (“CWA” or “the Act”) Coverage of “Discharges of Pollutants” via a Direct Hydrologic Connection to Surface Water. The Associations appreciate that EPA opened this comment period. Our members share EPA’s concern that seemingly contradictory Agency guidance and conflicting case law have blurred the Act’s conspicuous delineation between those point source discharges to jurisdictional waters that require CWA permits, and releases to groundwater that do not require CWA permitting.

Letters and Comments May 18, 2018

We strongly urge the Department of Commerce to finalize its Rule as soon as possible to minimize disruptions to business and to American job creation, and to realize the Administration’s goal of achieving “energy dominance,” which necessarily relies on complex interwoven global supply chains of specialty steel and other products. Impediments to developing, transporting, refining and distributing domestic oil and gas resources could reduce supplies of critical fuels used by consumers, the U.S. military, and manufacturers, which could have the unintended consequence of negatively affecting the national security upon which these tariffs are premised.

Letters and Comments May 17, 2018

This letter urges you to refrain from imposing any action under the Department of Energy’s emergency authorities to provide economic support favoring a particular class of power plants, as urged by First Energy Solutions and its affiliates. It is submitted on behalf of the Independent Petroleum Association of America (IPAA), the American Exploration & Production Council (AXPC), the Association of Energy Service Companies (AESC), the International Association of Drilling Contractors (IADC), and the following organizations.

Letters and Comments May 17, 2018

These comments are filed on behalf of the Independent Petroleum Association of America (IPAA). The Bureau of Industry and Security solicited comments on the implications of actions taken by the Trump Administration with regard to tariffs and limitations on steel imports. In March, the Trump Administration initiated new imported steel and aluminum tariffs under the authority of Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962. The scope of these tariffs impacts American oil and natural gas producers. The implications are numerous.

Letters and Comments May 16, 2018

These comments are submitted by the Alliance for Competitive Steel and Aluminum Trade (IPAA is a cosigner) on the interim final rule (the Interim Regulations) which amend the National Security Industrial Base Regulations (the Existing Regulations). The amendments set forth a process for U.S. companies to submit requests for exclusions from actions taken by the President under Presidential Proclamations 9704 and 9705, both dated March 8, 2018 (the Proclamations), as amended, which place additional tariffs on certain imports of steel and aluminum products pursuant to Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962, as amended (Section 232).

Letters and Comments May 8, 2018

In proposing withdrawal of the Control Techniques Guidelines for the Oil and Natural Gas Industry (CTG), EPA states: “On June 5, 2017, the EPA granted reconsideration in regard to additional provisions of the 2016 NSPS1. Pursuant to those actions, the EPA is currently looking broadly at the 2016 NSPS. In light of the fact that the EPA is reconsidering the 2016 NSPS and because the recommendations made in the CTG are fundamentally linked to the conclusions in the 2016 NSPS, the EPA believes it is prudent to withdraw the CTG in its entirety. The EPA also believes that the withdrawal will be more efficient for states in revising their state implementation plans (SIPs).” We strongly support EPA’s proposed action for this and other reasons.

Letters and Comments Apr 23, 2018

To Whom it May Concern: Western Energy Alliance (the Alliance) and the Independent Petroleum Association of America (IPAA) appreciate the opportunity to provide comments on the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) proposed revisions of certain provisions of the Methane and Waste Prevention rule, or 2016 rule. The 2016 rule as promulgated exceeded BLM’s authority under the Mineral Leasing Act (MLA), and that the decision to re-evaluate the rule is required. The proposed revision rule more accurately captures the scope of BLM’s waste minimization authority, and will better ensure federal mineral interests are adequately protected without excessively burdening federal lands development with overreaching regulations.

IPAA is the industry's strongest presence in the nation's capital and these are important times. The entire oil and gas industry remains under fire from anti-development groups; but with these challenges arise unique opportunities that IPAA is seizing for our members.