Comments on Proposed Rule: Disclosure of Payments by Resource Extraction Issuer

[Release No. 34-87783; File No. S7-24-19]

Submitted Comments

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Comments have been received from individuals and entities using the following Letter Type
A: 1,186

Submitted Comments

Dec. 15, 2020 Stephen E. Gottesfeld, EVP Chief Sustainability and External Affairs Officer, Newmont Corporation
Dec. 15, 2020 Robert Rutkowski
Dec. 15, 2020 Elizabeth Warren, U.S. Senator
Dec. 14, 2020 Carl F. Muñana, Former Managing Director and Chief Risk Officer for Latin America at J.P. Morgan & Co.
Dec. 14, 2020 Ann-Maree Wolff, Head of Tax, Rio Tinto
Dec. 14, 2020 Jeffrey Krilla, Vice President, Global Public Policy and Government Affairs, KOSMOS Energy
Dec. 14, 2020 Jamey Shachoy
Dec. 14, 2020 Kim Williams, Former Senior Vice-President of Wellington Management Company, LLP (retired)
Dec. 12, 2020 Lora Lucero
Dec. 11, 2020 Benjamin L. Cardin and Richard J. Durbin, U.S. Senators
Oct. 9, 2020 Joseph Kraus, Ph.D., Policy Director, The ONE Campaign
Jun. 17, 2020 Lisa Woll, CEO, US SIF: The Forum for Sustainable and Responsible Investment
May 26, 2020 Andy Green, Managing Director of Economic Policy, Center for American Progress, et al
May 1, 2020 Daniel Kaufmann, Ph.D., Chief Advisor and President Emeritus, Natural Resource Governance Institute (NRGI) and Non-Resident Sr. Fellow, The Brookings Institution
Apr. 29, 2020 Elise J. Bean, Former Staff Director and Chief Counsel, U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations
Apr. 22, 2020 Jonas Hien, National Coordinator, Publish What You Pay – Burkina Faso, Ouagadougou
Apr. 1, 2020 Gayle Smith, President and CEO, ONE Campaign
Mar. 30, 2020 Alan D. McLean, Executive Vice President Taxation and Controller, Royal Dutch Shell PLC
Mar. 26, 2020 Sarah Chayes, et al
Mar. 25, 2020 Alberto Piatti, Executive Vice President, Responsible and Sustainable Enterprise, Eni
Mar. 25, 2020 Joseph Kraus, Policy Director, Transparency & Accountability, The ONE Campaign
Mar. 24, 2020 Gayle E. Smith, Executive Officer, ONE.ORG
Mar. 23, 2020 Oxfam America and EarthRights International
Mar. 20, 2020 Energy Transparency
Mar. 20, 2020 Christina Thomas
Mar. 19, 2020 Chris Barnard
Mar. 19, 2020 Gerardo Andres Hernandez, Executive Director, Transparencia Por Colombia
Mar. 19, 2020 Eric G Postel
Mar. 18, 2020 Clark S. Gascoigne, Interim Executive Director, Financial Accountability and Corporate Transparency (FACT) Coalition
Mar. 17, 2020 Kathleen Brophy, Director, Publish What You Pay - US
Mar. 17, 2020 Kathleen Brophy, Director, Publish What You Pay - US
Mar. 17, 2020 Earthworks
Mar. 17, 2020 Alexander Malden and Joseph Williams
Mar. 17, 2020 Shannon Gough
Mar. 16, 2020 Frédéric Samama, et al.
Mar. 16, 2020 Robert Rutkowski
Mar. 16, 2020 Clancy Moore, National Director, Publish What You Pay Australia
Mar. 16, 2020 Sora Utzinger
Mar. 16, 2020 Clancy Moore, National Director, Publish What You Pay, Australia
Mar. 16, 2020 Michelle Savage, Vice President, Communication, XBRL US
Mar. 16, 2020 Benjamin Boakye, Executive Director, Africa Center for Energy Policy
Mar. 16, 2020 Daniel Farber, Sho Sato Professor of Law and Director of the California Center for Environmental, Law and Policy, University of California, Berkeley; James Goodwin, Senior Policy Analyst, Center for Progressive Reform; and Richard Murphy, AT&T Professor of Law Texas Tech University School of Law
Mar. 16, 2020 Rodrigo A. Alves, Chief Accounting and Tax Officer, Petrobras
Mar. 16, 2020 Viola Tarus, Extractives Strategist, Oxfam in Kenya
Mar. 16, 2020 Cary Coglianese, Edward B. Shils Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania Law School
Mar. 16, 2020 Erik Rust, Director, United States Chamber of Commerce
Mar. 16, 2020 Suneeta Kaimal, Interim President and CEO, Natural Resource Governance Institute
Mar. 16, 2020 Alexander Schay, Managing Director, W.K. Associates, Inc.
Mar. 16, 2020 Stephen E. Comstock, Vice President, Corporate Policy, American Petroleum Institute Institute
Mar. 16, 2020 Alexander Malden, Governance Officer, Natural Resource Governance Institute
Mar. 16, 2020 Premila Roe, Group Tax Officer, BHP
Mar. 16, 2020 James L. Setterlund, Executive Director, Shareholder Advocacy Forum - Federal Affairs Manager, Americans for Tax Reform
Mar. 16, 2020 Stephen Dyck, Vice President, Finance & Comptroller, Ovintiv
Mar. 16, 2020 Donkris Mevuta, Executive Director, Friends of the Nation
Mar. 16, 2020 Stephen E. Comstock, Vice President, American Petroleum Institute
Mar. 16, 2020 Alexandra Gillies, PhD, Advisor, Natural Resource Governance Institute
Mar. 16, 2020 Aaron Sayne, Senior Governance Officer, Natural Resource Governance Institute
Mar. 16, 2020 Kathleen Brophy, Director, Publish What You Pay United States
Mar. 16, 2020 Lev Bagramian, Senior Securities Policy Advisor, Better Markets
Mar. 16, 2020 Joseph Williams, Advocacy Manager, Natural Resource Governance Institute
Mar. 16, 2020 Mark Robinson, Executive Director, EITI International Secretariat
Mar. 16, 2020 Claudia Steiner, Research Intern Tyson Slocum, Energy Program Director, Public Citizen, Inc.
Mar. 16, 2020 Chris Netram, Vice President, Tax & Domestic Economic Policy, The National Association of Manufacturers
Mar. 16, 2020 Maryati Abdullah, National Coordinator/Director PWYP Indonesia, Envoy, Open Government Partnership (OGP)
Mar. 16, 2020 Ann-Maree Wolff, Head of Tax, Rio Tinto
Mar. 16, 2020 Angela Mutsotso for Charles Wanguhu, Kenya Platform on Oil and Gas Platform (KCSPOG), Publish What You Pay - Kenya
Mar. 16, 2020 Mary-Ann Peters, Ambassador (Ret.), Chief Executive Officer, The Carter Center
Mar. 15, 2020 Cesar Gamboa, Policy Director, Derecho Ambiente y Recursos Naturales (DAR)
Mar. 15, 2020 Alan Detheridge, Former Vice President, External Affairs, Royal Dutch Shell
Mar. 14, 2020 Peter Morgan, Senior Attorney, Sierra Club
Mar. 13, 2020 Maxine Waters, Chairwoman, House Committee on Financial Services, et al.
Mar. 13, 2020 Gine Wang-Reese, Vice President, Political & Public Affairs, Equinor, US
Mar. 13, 2020 Joe Ellis, Vice President and Head of U.S. Government Affairs, BP America
Mar. 13, 2020 Joseph Kraus, Policy Director, Transparency & Accountability, The One Campaign
Mar. 13, 2020 Gary Kalman, Director, U.S. office of Transparency International and Scott Greytak, Advocacy Director, U.S. office of Transparency International
Mar. 13, 2020 Danielle Brian, Executive Director, Project On Government Oversight (POGO)
Mar. 13, 2020 Chenai Mukumba, Chair, Global Council, and Elisa Peter, Executive Director, Publish What You Pay
Mar. 13, 2020 Jean Aimé Brice Georges Mackosso, et al., Board Member, Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI)
Mar. 12, 2020 Dominic Eagleton, Senior Campaigner, Global Witness
Mar. 11, 2020 Tutu Alicante, Executive Director, EG Justice
Mar. 11, 2020 Senator, Benjamin L. Cardin, et al., U.S. Senate
Mar. 10, 2020 Majid Abu Kelal, Coordinator, Iraqi Transparency Alliance for Extractive Industries
Mar. 6, 2020 Zimbabwe Environmental Law Association
Mar. 6, 2020 Olusegun Elemo, Executive Director, Paradigm Leadership Support Initiative (PLSI)
Mar. 6, 2020 Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP
Mar. 4, 2020 Susan Rose-Acerman, Henry R. Luce Professor of Jurisprudence, Yale Law School
Feb. 28, 2020 Kathleen Brophy, Director, Publish What You Pay – United States
Feb. 27, 2020 Tijah Bolton-Akpan, Executive Director, Policy Alert
Feb. 25, 2020 Stephen P. Gottesfeld, EVP Chief Sustainability and External Affairs Off., Newmont Corporation
Feb. 19, 2020 Mike Anderson, Senior Vice President, External Affairs, Governmen, Kosmos Energy
Feb. 17, 2020 Francois Badoual, President & CEO, TOTAL
Feb. 11, 2020 Joseph Kraus, Policy Director, Transparency & Accountability, ONE.ORG
Feb. 10, 2020 Francois Badoual, President & CEO Washington, D.C. Office, TOTAL
Feb. 1, 2020 William Michael Cunningham, Creative Investment Research
Jan. 31, 2020 Jonny Forehands
Jan. 6, 2020 David Moore, MPIA
Jan. 1, 2020 Keith P. Bishop, Former California Commissioner of Corporations
Jul. 16, 2019 Elena Gaita, Senior Policy Officer – Corporate Transparency, Transparency International EU

Meetings with SEC Officials

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Dec. 13, 2020 Memorandum from the Office of Commissioner Allison Herron Lee regarding a December 3, 2020 telephonic meeting with representatives from Publish What You Pay
Dec. 13, 2020 Memorandum from the Office of Commissioner Allison Herron Lee regarding a December 3, 2020 telephonic meeting with Alexander Schay and Paul Bugala
Dec. 4, 2020 Memorandum from Thaya Brook Knight, Counsel to Commissioner Elad L. Roisman regarding a December 4, 2020 meeting with representatives from Publish What You Pay and others
Dec. 1, 2020 Memorandum from the Office of Commissioner Caroline Crenshaw regarding a December 1, 2020 meeting with Gillian Metzger
Nov. 13, 2020 Memorandum from the Office of Commissioner Hester M. Peirce regarding a November 13, 2020, meeting with representatives from Publish What You Pay-United States, Global Witness, One Campaign, Oxfam America, and Earthrights International
Oct. 21, 2020 Memorandum from the Office of General Counsel regarding an October 20, 2020, telephone conference with representatives of PWYP-US, Earthrights International, Global Witness, Oxfam America, and ONE Campaign
Oct. 16, 2020 Memorandum from the Office of Commissioner Caroline Crenshaw regarding an October 13, 2020, meeting with representatives from the Oxfam America
Oct. 16, 2020 Memorandum from the Office of Commissioner Caroline Crenshaw regarding an October 14, 2020, meeting with representatives from the American Petroleum Institute
Oct. 5, 2020 Memorandum from the Office of the Chairman regarding an October 5, 2020, telephone meeting with representatives of Publish What You Pay-US
Sep. 25, 2020 Memorandum from the Office of Commissioner Caroline Crenshaw regarding a September 25, 2020, meeting with representatives from Publish What You Pay, EarthRights International, ONE, Oxfam America and Global Witness
Aug. 14, 2020 Memorandum from the Office of Commissioner Lee regarding an April 14, 2020, meeting with representatives from Publish What You Pay
Aug. 14, 2020 Memorandum from the Office of Commissioner Lee regarding a July 30, 2020, meeting with representatives from API
Aug. 6, 2020 Memorandum from the Office of Commissioner Elad L. Roisman regarding an August 6, 2020, telephone conference with representatives of the American Petroleum Institute
Jul. 1, 2020 Memorandum from the Office of the Chairman regarding a July 1, 2020, telephone conference with representatives of the Chamber of Commerce
Jun. 26, 2020 Memorandum from the Office of the Chairman regarding a June 26, 2020, telephone conference with representatives of the American Petroleum Institute
Apr. 29, 2020 Memorandum from the Office of the Chairman regarding an April 29, 2020, telephone meeting with representatives of Canadian Regulators
Apr. 23, 2020 Memorandum from the Office of the Chairman regarding an April 23, 2020, telephone meeting with representatives of PWYP-US, Earthrights International, Global Witness, Oxfam America, and ONE Campaign
Apr. 23, 2020 Memorandum from the Office of the Chairman regarding an April 23, 2020, telephone meeting with a representative of the Center for Capital Markets Competitiveness
Mar. 13, 2020 Memorandum from the Division of Corporation Finance regarding a March 13, 2020, Telephone Conference with Representatives of the Natural Resource Governance Institute (NRGI)
Mar. 11, 2020 Memorandum from the Office of Commissioner Commissioner Hester M. Peirce regarding a February 20, 2020, meeting with representatives from Publish What You Pay-United States, WYP U.S., Global Witness, One Campaign, and Earthrights International
Mar. 1, 2020 Memorandum from the Office of Commissioner Allison Herren Lee regarding a January 23, 2020, meeting with Paul Bugala and Alexander Schay
Mar. 1, 2020 Memorandum from the Office of Commissioner Allison Herren Lee regarding a January 16, 2020, meeting with representatives of Publish What You Pay
Feb. 20, 2020 Memorandum from the Office of Commissioner Hester M. Peirce regarding a November 6, 2019, meeting with representatives of Publish What You Pay-United States, Global Witness, One Campaign, and Earthrights International
Feb. 7, 2020 Memorandum from the Office of the Chairman regarding a February 7, 2020 meeting with representatives of PWYP U.S., Global Witness, Oxfam, One Campaign, and Earthrights Internationa
Jan. 31, 2020 Memorandum from the Division of Corporation Finance regarding a January 31, 2020, meeting with representatives of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative
Nov. 26, 2019 Memorandum from the Division of Investment Management regarding a November 26, 2019, meeting with representatives from Oxfam, Global Witness, One Campaign, Earthrights International, and PWYP U.S.
Jun. 19, 2019 Memorandum from the Division of Corporation Finance regarding a June 19, 2019 meeting with representatives from BHP Billiton Ryan Bowley and Leslie Arnold