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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA San Francisco Division PACIFIC COAST FEDERATION OF Case No. 19-cv-07897-LB FISHERMEN'S ASSOCIATIONS, et al., 12 Plaintiffs, ORDER GRANTING MOTIONS TO TRANSFER v. Re: ECF Nos. 40, 50 WILBUR ROSS, et al., 15 Defendants. 16 INTRODUCTION In this lawsuit, the plaintiffs, a group of six environmental organizations, sued the National Marine Fisheries Service and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (and their official representatives), challenging final agency action in the form of each agency’s adoption of a biological opinion regarding the long-term operation of the Central Valley Project and the State Water Project (collectively, “Water Projects”) under the Administrative Procedures Act (“APA”), 5 U.S.C. § 706. The plaintiffs claim that the opinions increase the risk of extinction of endangered and threatened salmon, steelhead, and Delta Smelt.1 The plaintiffs also sued…