Stamm

FINDINGS OF FACT, CONCLUSIONS OF LAW AND JUDGMENT

Plaintiffs Environmental Defense Fund, Inc. and Sierra Club are non-profit corporations concerned with ecological and environmental protection. Defendant Gilbert Stamm is Commissioner of the United States Bureau of Reclamation. Defendant Billy Martin is its Director for the Mid-Pacific Region which includes all of California north of Bakersfield. Plaintiff-intervenor is the Resources Agency of California re sponsible for administering the state water resources. Defendant-intervenors are various water districts and cities in Santa Clara and San Benito Counties of the State of California.

Plaintiffs seek to enjoin defendants from proceeding with a project involving conduits, dams and reservoirs to supply approximately 200,000 acre-feet of water annually for urban and agricultural use in Santa Clara, San Benito, Monterey and Santa Cruz Counties of the State of California. The project is known as the San Felipe Division of the federal Central Valley Project, the latter being a huge enterprise for preservation and use of water in California north of Bakersfield. The San Felipe Division would draw water from the Sacramento-San Joaquin…