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Robert P. Will and Peter Carlson organized the firm of Will & Carlson in
1994 continuing the work they had done together since 1987. Their work is
primarily governmental relations for western resource clients with Congress and
Federal agencies.
BACKGROUND
Robert Will was the former General Counsel of Metropolitan Water District of
Southern California and entered into private practice in Washington, D.C. in 1980. His career
was almost entirely devoted to representing local
governmental agencies. Peter Carlson became a Legislative Specialist with the
firm of Will & Muys in January 1991. Prior to that he was an independent
consultant to the firm and other individual clients for three years. In
addition, he worked for the Environmental Policy Institute for twelve years on
water resource and transportation issues.
Messrs. Will and Carlson have represented clients before various federal
departments and administrative agencies, principally the Departments of
Interior, Agriculture, Defense (Corps of Engineers and the Navy Department) and
Energy (primarily the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and the several power
marketing administrations) the Environmental Protection Agency and Congress.
Mr. Will had clients, principally in the Pacific Southwest, which included the
Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, California Colorado River
water contractors (Six Agency Committee), Transmission Agency of Northern
California, Central Arizona Water Conservation District, Fallbrook Public
Utility District, Westlands Water District, Association of California Water
Agencies, Monterey Peninsula Water Management Agency, Santa Ana Watershed
Project Authority, Western Coalition of Arid States, Clark County Regional Flood
Control District, Sacramento Area Flood Control Agency, Eastern Municipal Water
District (Perris, California), the Signal Company, Kennedy Jenks Engineers,
architectural/engineering firm and an economic consulting firm. He was involved in efforts regarding the California State Water Project; water and
power interests in California and the Colorado River Basin; legislative and
administrative matters concerning Bureau of Reclamation, Corps of Engineers, and
Soil Conservation Service projects; proposed national water policy and cost
sharing proposals; Clean Water Act, Superfund and Safe Drinking Water Act,
Endangered Species Act, and federal actions affecting these clients in the
taxation, finance and land areas. Mr. Will retired from the firm at the
end of 2003.
Mr. Carlson has had extensive experience with respect to Federal financing
and appropriation funding, environmental issues concerning water resource
development policies and programs of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the
Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation, and the Environmental
Protection Agency. These issues include project financing, wetlands,
groundwater, water conservation, fish and wildlife mitigation, surplus crops,
the Reclamation Reform Act, the Small Reclamation Loan Program, Clean Water Act,
Safe Drinking Water Act, the Endangered Species Act, and the Water Resources
Development Act. Mr. Carlson represented the Central Valley Project Water Association on fish
and wildlife mitigation issues in the U.S. Congress, the National Water Resource Association Water Resource Management Committee
on the Small Reclamation Loan Program, and efforts
regarding the Animas-La Plata and Coalbed Methane issues for the
Southern Ute Tribe in Colorado. Mr. Carlson currently represents the Garrison Diversion Conservancy District,
the Oregon Water Resources Congress the State of Montana's
Department of Natural Resources, and the Tumalo Irrigation District. He
served as the point of contact in Washington,
DC for the Invest in the West Campaign, the Energy and Water Development
Coalition, and the Small Reclamation Loan Program Coalition.
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