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., No. 1:16-cv-00307-DAD-SKO

11 Plaintiffs, ORDER RE MOTION TO STAY

12 v. (Doc. No. 141.)

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 authorizing 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 Management Agency (“Pajaro”) (collectively, Interim…