North Coast Rivers Alliance v. United States Department of the Interior

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

NORTH COAST RIVERS ALLIANCE, et al., 1:16-cv-00307-LJO-SKO

Plaintiffs, ORDER RE STATUS OF PENDING

CROSS MOTIONS FOR SUMMARY

v. JUDGMENT

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, et al., 11 Defendants, 12 WESTLANDS WATER DISTRICT, et al., 13 Intervenor-Defendants. 14 15 This case concerns approval by the United States Department of the Interior and its member agency, the United States Bureau of Reclamation (collectively, “Federal Defendants,” “Reclamation,” or the “Bureau”), of six interim renewal contracts that authorized delivery of water from March 1, 2016, through February 28, 2018, from federal reclamation facilities to certain water districts served by the federal Central Valley Project (“CVP”) (“2016-18 Interim Contracts”). ECF No. 64, First Amended and Supplemental Complaint (“FASC”). The 2016-18 Interim Contracts at issue in this case provided water service to Westlands Water District (“Westlands”), Santa Clara Valley Water…