Spanish Springs Pilots Ass'n v. United States Department of the Interior

MEMORANDUM ***

Spanish Springs Pilots Association, Inc., (“SSPA”) appeals the district court’s order affirming an administrative decision rendered by the Interior Board of Land Appeals (“IBLA”). The petition challenging the administrative decision in the district court presented a dispute between the SSPA, a private lessee, and the Bureau of Land Management (“BLM”) over the adequacy of an appraisal used to revise the fair market rental value of property leased for a small public use airport just north of Reno, Nevada. We have jurisdiction pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1291 and we affirm.

We review the district court’s decision to grant summary judgment de novo. See, e.g., Universal Health Servs., Inc. v. Thompson, 363 F.3d 1013 , 1019 (9th Cir.2004). Viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to the nonmoving party, we determine whether there are any genuine issues of material fact and whether the district court correctly applied the relevant substantive law. See Olsen v. Idaho State Bd. of Med., 363 F.3d 916 , 922 (9th Cir.2004).

SSPA has set forth six alleged deficiencies in the appraisal report, arguing that the IBLA and district court erred as a matter of law in finding the…