FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

SOUTHEAST ALASKA CONSERVATION 

COUNCIL; SIERRA CLUB; LYNN

CANAL CONSERVATION,

Plaintiffs-Appellants, v.

UNITED STATES ARMY CORPS OF

ENGINEERS; TIMOTHY J. GALLAGHER No. 06-35679 Colonel, in his official capacity as District Engineer; LARRY L. D.C. No. REEDER, in his official capacity of Chief of the Regulatory Branch;  CV-05-00012-J-JKS District of Alaska, DOMINIC IZZO, in his official Juneau capacity as Principal Deputy ORDER Assistant Secretary of the Army (Civil Works); UNITED STATES

FOREST SERVICE,

Defendants-Appellees,

COEUR ALASKA, INC.; GOLDBELT,

INC.; STATE OF ALASKA,

Defendant-intervenors-Appellees.  On Remand from the United States Supreme Court

Filed August 31, 2009

Before: Procter Hug, Jr., A. Wallace Tashima and Susan P. Graber, Circuit Judges.

12075 12076 SOUTHEAST ALASKA CONSERVATION v. USACE

ORDER

This case returns to us on remand from the Supreme Court of the United States. Southeast Alaska Conservation Council v. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, 486 F.3d 638 (9th Cir. 2007), reversed and remanded by 129 S.Ct. 2458 (2009). We, in turn, remand to the district court for further proceedings consistent with the Supreme Court’s opinion.

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