AquAlliance

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 AQUALLIANCE, et al., Case No. 1:20-cv-00878 JLT EPG

Plaintiffs, ORDER DISMISSING FEDERAL CLAIMS AS

MOOT AND DISMISSING STATE CLAIMS FOR

13 v. LACK OF JURISDICTION

UNITED STATES BUREAU OF

RECLAMATION, et al.,

Defendants. 17 I. BACKGROUND This litigation has a lengthy backstory. In 2015, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation and San Luis & Delta Mendota Water Authority (collectively, “the Agencies”), approved a Long-Term Water Transfers (LTWT) Project designed to allow sellers located upstream of the Sacramento/San Joaquin Delta (“Delta”) to sell/transfer water to willing buyers south of the Delta over a ten-year period from 2015 through 2024. See AquAlliance v. U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, 287 F. Supp. 3d 969, 984–85 (E.D. Cal. 2018) (“AquAlliance I”). The 2015 LTWT Project established a system by which sellers could apply to use facilities owned by the…