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

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

8 FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

10 NORTH COAST RIVERS ALLIANCE, et al., No. 1:16-cv-00307-DAD-SKO 11 Plaintiffs, ORDER GRANTING UNOPPOSED

MOTION TO AMEND v.

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE

14 INTERIOR, et al., 15 Defendants,

16 WESTLANDS WATER DISTRICT, et al., 17 Intervenor-Defendants.

As originally filed, this case concerned approval by the United States Department of the Interior

and its member agency, the United States Bureau of Reclamation (collectively, “Federal Defendants” or

“Reclamation”), 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”). (Doc. No. 64, First Amended and Supplemental Complaint (“FASC”).) The 2016–18 Interim Contracts at issue provided water service to Westlands Water District (“Westlands”), Santa Clara Valley Water District (“Santa Clara”), and Pajaro Valley Water…