Ferc

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

SNOQUALMIE INDIAN TRIBE, 

Petitioner,

STATE OF WASHINGTON DEPARTMENT

OF ECOLOGY,

Intervenor, No. 05-72739 v.  FERC No.

FEDERAL ENERGY REGULATORY 2493-016

COMMISSION,

Respondent,

PUGET SOUND ENERGY, INC.,

Intervenor. 

PUGET SOUND ENERGY, INC., 

Petitioner,

STATE OF WASHINGTON DEPARTMENT

OF ECOLOGY,

No. 05-74060 Intervenor, v.  FERC No. 2493-027

FEDERAL ENERGY REGULATORY

OPINION

COMMISSION,

Respondent,

SNOQUALMIE INDIAN TRIBE,

Intervenor.  On Petition for Review of an Order of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

14233 14234 SNOQUALMIE INDIAN TRIBE v. FERC Argued February 8, 2007 Submitted September 30, 2008 Seattle, Washington

Filed October 7, 2008

Before: Raymond C. Fisher and Richard C. Tallman, Circuit Judges, and David A. Ezra,* District Judge.

Opinion by Judge Tallman

*The Honorable David A. Ezra, United States District Judge for the District of Hawaii, sitting by designation. SNOQUALMIE INDIAN TRIBE v. FERC 14237

COUNSEL

Andrea Rodgers, Charles M. Tebbutt, Western…