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UNITED STATES SENATE COMMITTEE ON ENVIRONMENT AND PUBLIC WORKS STATEMENT FOR COMPLETION BY PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEES UNITED STATES SENATE COMMITTEE ON ENVIRONMENT AND PUBLIC WORKS ROOM 410 DIRKSEN SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON, DC 20510 INFORMATION REQUESTED OF PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEES In order to assist the Committee in its consideration of nominations, each nominee is requested to complete the attached Statement for completion by Presidential Nominees. The Statement is intended to be publicly available. In the event that a nominee asks that a specific answer be kept confidential, he or she should notify the Chairman and Ranking Member. The original and forty (40) copies of the requested information should be made available to the Honorable John Barrasso, Chairman, Committee on Environment and Public Works, U.S. Senate, Washington, DC 20510 (Attn: Matt Leggett) as soon as possible. Name of Nominee: Andrew R. Wheeler Position to which nominated: Deputy Administrator, EPA Date of Nomination: 10-5-2017 Business Name: Faegre Baker Daniels Business Address: 1050 K Street, NW Suite 400 Sierra Club v. EPA 18cv3472 NDCA Tier 1 ED 002061 00152371-00001 UNITED STATES SENATE COMMITTEE ON ENVIRONMENT AND PUBLIC WORKS STATEMENT FOR COMPLETION BY PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEES City, State & Zip: Washington, D.C. 20001 Business E-mail: Andrew.Wheeler@faegrebd.com Business Phone: 202-312-7424 Full Legal Name: Andrew Ronald Wheeler Date of birth: Ex. 6 State of residency: Virginia Education: Institution Case Western Reserve University Washington University School of Law George Mason University Business School Dates Attended 1983-1987 1987-1990 1993-1998 Degrees Received B.A. J.D. M.B.A. Dates o f Degrees 1987 1990 1998 Sierra Club v. EPA 18cv3472 NDCA Tier 1 ED 002061 00152371-00002 UNITED STATES SENATE COMMITTEE ON ENVIRONMENT AND PUBLIC WORKS STATEMENT FOR COMPLETION BY PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEES Employment Record List all positions held since college, including the title and description of job, name of employer, location, and dates. If you were terminated involuntarily from any position(s), please note the circumstances. Attach additional pages if necessary. Position Title Employer Principal Republican Staff Director/Chief Counsel Clean Air Subcommittee Staff Director General Counsel Environmental Protection Specialist Faegre Baker Daniels, LLC U.S. Senate EPW Committee U.S. Senate EPW Committee Office of Senator Jim Inhofe U.S. EPA Address 1050 K Street NW Washington DC 406 Dirksen Senate Office Building Dates 1/09 present 1/031/09 Terminate d (Y/N) No No 406 Dirksen Senate Office Building 456 Russell Senate Office Building Waterside Mall 1/97 - No 1/03 12/95- No 1/97 6/91 - No 12/95 Honors and Awards: List significant scholarships, fellowships, honorary degrees, military medals, honorary society memberships, and any other special recognition for outstanding service or achievement. Attach additional pages if necessary. Date 2100065tn Congress 1994 Honor/Award National Journal-- One of the Top Congressional Staff Leaders John C. Stennis Congressional Staff Fellow EPA Bronze Medal: For Expanding the Scope and Impact of the Toxic Release Inventory Program Sierra Club v. EPA 18cv3472 NDCA Tier 1 ED 002061 00152371-00003 UNITED STATES SENATE COMMITTEE ON ENVIRONMENT AND PUBLIC WORKS STATEMENT FOR COMPLETION BY PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEES 1994 EPA Bronze Medal: For the Development of the TSCA 8(e) CAP Information Product 1993 EPA Bronze Medal: For Outstanding Support for the Agency IRM Planning and Budgeting Process Memberships: List significant memberships and offices held in professional, fraternal, business, scholarly, civic, charitable and other organizations. Attach additional pages if necessary.__________ Organization NERO Washington Coal Club Office held (if any) Chairman, President, VP President Dates 2009-present 2016 Qualifications: State fully your qualifications to serve in the position to which you have been nominated. I have spent over twenty-five years working in the environmental field. I started my career as a career employee of the EPA in 1991, worked in the U.S. Senate for fourteen years, and have spent the last eight years as a consultant/lobbyist for a large variety of energy and environmental clients. This has given me a unique perspective of both the Executive and Legislative branches. On the management side, I have an M.B.A. and I managed over thirty staff as the Staff Director of EPW. I am an avid outsdoorsman, camping, hiking and also an Eagle Scout. I believe in a clean environment, clean air and clean water. I will work with Administrator Pruitt and the staff of the EPA, both political and career, to ensure that the mission of the agency and the laws of our country are upheld and followed. I respect the career employees of the agency, and if I am confirmed I hope to earn their respect. Sierra Club v. EPA 18cv3472 NDCA Tier 1 ED 002061 00152371-00004 UNITED STATES SENATE COMMITTEE ON ENVIRONMENT AND PUBLIC WORKS STATEMENT FOR COMPLETION BY PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEES Future employment relationships: 1. Indicate whether you will sever all connections with your present employer, business firm, association or organization if you are confirmed by the Senate. _X_Yes. ____No. If not, please explain: 2. As far as can be foreseen, state whether you have any plans after completing government service to resume employment, affiliation or practice with your current or any previous employer, business firm, association or organization. ____Yes. If so, please explain: X No. 3. Has anybody made a commitment to you for a job after you leave government? Yes. If so, please explain: X No. 4. (a) If you have been appointed for a fixed term, do you expect to serve the full term? Sierra Club v. EPA 18cv3472 NDCA Tier 1 ED 002061 00152371-00005 UNITED STATES SENATE COMMITTEE ON ENVIRONMENT AND PUBLIC WORKS STATEMENT FOR COMPLETION BY PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEES Yes. No. (b) If you have been appointed for an indefinite term, do you have any known limitations on your willingness or ability to serve for the foreseeable future? __Yes. If so, please explain: X No (c) If you have previously held any Schedule C or other appointive position in the Executive branch, irrespective of whether the position required Congressional confirmation, please state the circumstances of your departure and its timing. Financial Statement: Note: The Office of Government Ethics will provide the Committee with a copy of your Executive Personnel Financial Disclosure Report (SF-278). 1. List sources, amounts and dates of all anticipated receipts from deferred income arrangements, stock options, uncompleted contracts and other future benefits which you expect to derive from previous business relationships, professional services and firm memberships or from former employers, clients, and customers. Amounts should be indicated by the categories established for reporting income on Form SF-278, Schedule A. The only additional amount would be my firm's contribution to my retirement account for 2017, which is generally paid in early 2018. This is a straight percentage of my salary and the amount has already been set. 2. Are any assets pledged? ____Yes. If so, please explain: X No Sierra Club v. EPA 18cv3472 NDCA Tier 1 ED 002061 00152371-00006 UNITED STATES SENATE COMMITTEE ON ENVIRONMENT AND PUBLIC WORKS STATEMENT FOR COMPLETION BY PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEES 3. Are you currently a party to any legal action? ____Yes. If so, please explain: __X-.N o 4. Have you filed a Federal income tax return for each of the last 10 years? If not, please explain the circumstances. __X,,_ Yes ____No. If not, please explain: 5. Has the Internal Revenue Service ever audited your Federal tax return? Yes. If so, what resulted from the audit? X No Potential conflicts of interest: 1. Describe any financial or deferred compensation agreements or other continuing of interest: dealings with business associates, clients or customers who will be affected by policies which you will influence in the position to which you have been nominated. I have no financial or deferred compensation agreements except for my firm's retirement fund contribution for 2017 which is supposed to be paid in early 2018. It is a specific percentage of my 2017 salary. Therefore there are no policy issues which would affect the contribution. 2. List any investments, obligations, liabilities, or other relationships which might involve potential conflicts of interest, or the appearance of conflicts of interest, with the position to which you have been nominated. I have no investments, obligations, liabilities, or other relationships which might involve potential conflicts of interest, or the appearance of conflicts of interest. Sierra Club v. EPA 18cv3472 NDCA Tier 1 ED 002061 00152371-00007 UNITED STATES SENATE COMMITTEE ON ENVIRONMENT AND PUBLIC WORKS STATEMENT FOR COMPLETION BY PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEES 3. Describe any business relationship, dealing or financial transaction (other than taxpaying) which you have had during the last 10 years with the Federal Government, whether for yourself or relatives, on behalf of a client, or acting as an agent, that might in any way constitute or result in a possible conflict of interest, or an appearance of conflict of interest, with the position to which you have been nominated. I have been a registered lobbyist for almost nine years, representing a number of companies and entities before Congress and some Federal agencies and Departments. 4. Explain how you will resolve any potential conflict of interest, or appearance of a conflict of interest, that may be disclosed by your responses to the above items. Following the Trump ethics pledge I will be recusing myself from contact with my firm and my clients from the past two years. 5. Explain how you will comply with conflict of interest laws and regulations applicable to the position for which you have been nominated. Attach a statement from the appropriate agency official indicating what those laws and regulations are and how you will comply with them. For this purpose, you may utilize a statement by the relevant agency Ethics Officer. I have had several conversations with the EPA ethics officials and will continue to have regular discussions with them to ensure that I am in full compliance with the law and my pledge. Se attached. Political affiliation and activities: List ail memberships and offices held in, or financial contributions (in excess of $1,000), and services rendered to any political party or election committee during the last 10 years. Membership/Office/Political Party Senator Cory Gardner - Project West PAC Fairfax County Poll Observer - Rep Party Dates 03/14/2017 11/08/2016 Amount (if a$1p5p0l0ic.0a0ble) N/A Sierra Club v. EPA 18cv3472 NDCA Tier 1 ED 002061 00152371-00008 UNITED STATES SENATE COMMITTEE ON ENVIRONMENT AND PUBLIC WORKS STATEMENT FOR COMPLETION BY PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEES TErnuvmirponCmaemnptaaligisnsuPeoslicy Staff- Energy and Senator Cory Gardner - Project West PAC Rubio Campaign Policy Advisor Gillespie Campaign Day Volunteer Worker GStialtleesGpiOePDCeloengavteentaitoFnsairfax and Virginia Gardner for Senate Boehner for Speaker Friends of Jim Inhofe Romney Ohio Voter Drive George Allen for US Senate Romney Victory Inc Citizens for Josh Mandel Romney for President Senator Jim Inhofe -Fund for a Cons. Future Romney Victory Boehner for Speaker Romney Volunteer Policy Advisor Senator Jim Inhofe -Fund for a Cons. Future Stivers for Congress Arlington County Election Day Voter Drive Stivers for Congress Gardner for Congress Senator Jim Inhofe -Fund for a Cons. Future Arlington County Election Day Voter Drive 7/2016-11/2016 Npo/Asit-ionvolunteer 04/27/2016 $2,500.00 2/2016-3/2016 Npo/Asit-ionvolunteer 11/04/14 N/A M20a1r4ch and June N/A 03/27/2014 $1,000.00 07/18/2013 $1,500.00 06/11/2013 $1,000.00 11/03-06/2012 N/A 07/25/2012 $1,000.00 09/24/2012 $1,000.00 10/02/2012 $1,000.00 02/08/2012 $2,500.00 03/01/2012 $1,000.00 04/26/2012 $2,000.00 06/25/2012 $1,000.00 2/2012-11/2012 N/A 04/05/2011 $1,000.00 05/31/2011 $1,000.00 11/02/2010 N/A 03/03/2010 $1,000.00 06/22/2010 $1,000.00 06/25/2009 $1,000.00 11/04/2008 N/A Published writings: List the titles, publishers and dates of any books, articles, or reports you have written. (Please list first any publications and/or speeches that involve environmental or related matters.) 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EPA 18cv3472 NDCA Tier 1 ED 002061 00152371-00011 UNITED STATES SENATE COMMITTEE ON ENVIRONMENT AND PUBLIC WORKS STATEMENT FOR COMPLETION BY PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEES Additional Matters: 1. If there is any additional information which you believe may be pertinent to the Members of the Committee in reaching their decisions, you may include that here. 2. Do you agree to appear before all Congressional Committees which seek your testimony? _ X _ Yes ____ No. If not, please explain: 3. Having completed this form, are there any additional questions which you believe the Committee should ask of future nominees? ___Yes. If so, please explain: X No AFFIDAVIT ) ss, being duly sworn, hereby states that he/she has read and signed the foregoing Statement for Completion by Presidential Nominees including the Financial Statement and that the information provided therein is, to the best of his/her knowledge and belief, current, accurate, and complete. Subscribed and sworn before me this / > ^ a y o f / Sierra Club v. EPA 18cv3472 NDCA Tier 1 ED 002061 00152371-00012