To:
Hupp, Sydney[hupp.sydney@epa.gov]
From: Daren Coppock
Sent: Fri 5/26/2017 6:58:30 PM
Subject: copy of invitation letter
Pruitt invitation letter.pdf
Sydney,
Andrew Wheeler was kind enough to share your contact information. We sent an invitation via US mail for Administrator Pruitt to keynote our annual meeting in November. After hearing him on Wednesday of this week at the Faegre Baker Daniels meeting I'm even more keen on getting him to our meeting - his comments were outstanding and a breath of fresh air from EPA.
Attached is a copy of the letter for your reference. We'd love to hear from you as soon as you're able to provide a tentative indication.
Have a great Memorial Day weekend!
Daren Coppock President & CEO Agricultural Retailers Association Suppliers to America's Farmers
1156 15th Street, NW | Suite 500 | Washington, D.C. 20005
Direct: 202.595.1724 | Main: 202.457.0825 | Fax: 202.457.0864 dcoppock@aradc. org
www.aradc.org
Save the Date
ARA Conference & Expo November 27-30, 2017 Arizona Biltmore: A Waldorf Astoria Resort Phoenix, Arizona.
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Agricultural Retailers Association
Suppliers to America's Farmers
April 3, 2017
1156 15th Street, NW Suite >00 Washington, DC 20005 T 202.457.0825 F 202.457.0864 www.aradc.org
The Honorable Scott Pruitt Administrator Environmental Protection Agency Mail Code 1101A 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. Washington, DC 20460
Dear Mr. Pruitt,
The Agricultural Retailers Association (ARA) cordially invites you to keynote our 2017 annual meeting on Wednesday, November 29, in Phoenix, Arizona.
ARA members are farm supply retailers, distributors and service providers for America's farmers. They come in all shapes and sizes, private business or cooperatives, large or small, and from all corners of the continental United States. These businesses and their farmer-customers have been looking forward to the day when the EPA returns to its foundations in law and science, after efforts by the prior Administration to depart from that foundation by changing several precedents and vastly expanding the size and weight of the regulatory blanket under which our members operate.
Our members would very much appreciate hearing from you about the new direction for EPA under your leadership. Your initial decisions with respect to chlorpyriphos, WOTUS, the RMP rule and other issues have been a welcome breath of fresh air.
The ARA Conference attracts around 600 people representing the decision-makers at ag retail businesses and their key suppliers. The conference will be held at the Arizona Biltmore. The event begins Tuesday, November 28, with our golf tournament and Grand Opening tradeshow reception, and there is also an optional speakers' dinner on Tuesday evening for our guest speakers to meet each other and a few of our organizational leaders. We have a space reserved for you in our general session on Wednesday morning, November 29. I hope you will be able to accept our invitation.
Please let me know if you or your staff have questions about our event. If you can accept we would love to include your appearance in our promotional materials for the meeting, so an indication - even a tentative one - by mid-May would be most welcome.
Sincerely yours, .. x A
W. Daren Coppock President & CEO duoppockv-.anidc.org
Direct: (202)595-1724
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