Pennington

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 LINDA PARKER PENNINGTON, et al., Case No. 18-cv-05330-JD

Plaintiffs,

ORDER RE REMAND

v. 9 Re: Dkt. No. 13 TETRA TECH EC, INC., et al., Defendants.

In World War II, the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard (“HPNS”) in San Francisco was home to one of the largest United States Navy (“USN”) facilities on the West Coast. Among other contributions, it played a key role in building, repairing and maintaining the USN’s ships of the line during the war in the Pacific. HPNS was also significantly involved in the development of the United States as a nuclear power. From approximately 1948 to 1969, HPNS was the site of the Naval Radiological Defense Laboratory (“NRDL”). The USN established the NRDL to conduct research related to nuclear weapons, and to decontaminate ships exposed to radiation at weapons testing sites. As noted by the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the NRDL used “a broad spectrum of radioactive materials” at HPNS over the course of its operations. See…