BLACK HILLS CORPORATION lobbying for BLACK HILLS CORPORATION

Filing 3rd Quarter - Report

Reporting period

3rd Quarter 2025

July 1 - Sep 30 · Posted Oct 20, 2025

Expenses

$20,000.00

What this organization spent lobbying with its own staff. Reported using A: the three LDA methods count different costs, so an expenses figure is not comparable across filers that used different ones.

Client based in

South Dakota

Official filing document

Lobbyists on this filing 1

JAFAR KARIM New on this filing

Previously held: US Senate, US House, HHS, USDA

A "covered position" is a government job the lobbyist held in the 20 years before registering, which the law requires them to name. See the revolving door for former members of Congress across all filings.

Government bodies contacted 2

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
SENATE

The chambers, agencies and offices the filer named. It does not say who inside them was contacted, or when.

Bills named in this filing 6

HR 1
Lower Energy Costs Act
HR 471
Fix Our Forests Act
HR 5371
Continuing Appropriations, Agriculture, Legislative Branch, Military Construction and Veterans Affairs, and Extensions …
HR 5301
PIPES Act of 2025
HR 5079
Widespread Information Management for the Welfare of Infrastructure and Government Act
S 1337
Cybersecurity Information Sharing Extension Act

Lobbying activity 6

Energy/Nuclear

Load growth, reliability, and resource adequacy generally; Data center issues generally; Energy security issues generally; Issues related to energy grid supply chain; Issues related to energy sector impacts from tariff policies; Energy Access - Work relating to continued access to natural gas for direct use.

Taxation/Internal Revenue Code

H.R. 1- The One Big Beautiful Bill Act Issues related to energy sector impacts from tariff policies

Environment/Superfund

H.R. 471- the Fix Our Forest Act; Wildfires and other natural disasters; EPA regulations generally; Siting and permitting generally.

Budget/Appropriations

H.R.5371 - Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act, 2026 - Keeps government running/funding programs like LIHEAP. Also includes an anomaly to extend authorization for CISA. FY25 Energy, Water & Related Agencies Appropriations Legislation - Supported research and development for natural gas technologies; opposed use of DOE funds for limiting access to natural gas direct use. FY25 Labor-HHS Appropriations Legislation - Support fully authorized regular LIHEAP funding at $5.1 Billion. Appropriations language supporting delay of implementation for Energy Independence and Security Act Section 433.

Transportation

Pipeline Safety Reauthorization - draft pipeline safety reauthorization legislation pending. - H.R. 5301, Promoting Innovation in Pipeline Efficiency and Safety (PIPES Act) Act of 2025, bipartisan pipeline safety bill passed by House T&I. - Pipeline Integrity, Protection, and Enhancement for Leveraging Investments in the Nations Energy to Assure Safety (PIPELINE Safety Act) Act of 2025, draft pipeline safety legislation from Senate Commerce Committee - Draft pipeline safety legislation currently being written by House Energy and Commerce Committee. Easing Gas/Electric Infrastructure Locating Costs Due to Federally Incentivized Broadband Build-Out - relating to infrastructure development cost allocation.

Homeland Security

Legislation to reauthorize the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act of 2015 through 2035- Basis for public-private cyberthreat information sharing and related legal, regulatory, and public disclosure protections that protect private sector engagement. - HR. 5079, the Widespread Information Management for the Welfare of Infrastructure and Government Act (WIMWIG Act), bipartisan bill to update and reauthorize CISA thru 2035. - S.1337, the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Extension Act, provides a clean ten year CISA extension. - Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee (HSGAC) draft CISA modification and 2- year reauthorization legislation Cyber incident reporting generally Cyber regulatory harmonization generally