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FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

NAVAJO NATION, No. 19-17088 Plaintiff-Appellant, D.C. No. v. 3:03-cv-00507-

GMS

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR;

DEB HAALAND, Secretary of the Interior; UNITED STATES BUREAU OF ORDER AND

RECLAMATION; BUREAU OF INDIAN AMENDED

AFFAIRS, OPINION

Defendants-Appellees,

STATE OF ARIZONA; CENTRAL

ARIZONA WATER CONSERVATION

DISTRICT; ARIZONA POWER

AUTHORITY; SALT RIVER PROJECT

AGRICULTURAL IMPROVEMENT AND

POWER DISTRICT; SALT RIVER

VALLEY WATER USERS’

ASSOCIATION; IMPERIAL IRRIGATION

DISTRICT; METROPOLITAN WATER

DISTRICT OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA;

COACHELLA VALLEY WATER

DISTRICT; STATE OF NEVADA;

COLORADO RIVER COMMISSION OF

NEVADA; SOUTHERN NEVADA

WATER AUTHORITY; STATE OF

COLORADO,

Intervenor-Defendants-Appellees. Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Arizona G. Murray Snow, Chief District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted October 16, 2020 Pasadena, California

Filed April 28, 2021 Amended February 17, 2022

Before: Ronald M. Gould, Marsha S. Berzon, and Kenneth K.…