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Darryl Lloyd WHITE, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Glen WHORTON; et al., Defendants-Appellees.
    No. 10-15294.
    United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
    Submitted April 20, 2011.
    
    Filed May 3, 2011.
    Darryl Lloyd White, Lovelock, NV, pro se.
    Jeffrey W. Messmore, Esquire, RonaKaye Tuitele, Attorney General for the State of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV, for Defendants-Appellees.
    Before: RYMER, THOMAS, and PAEZ, Circuit Judges.
    
      
       The panel unanimously concludes this case is suitable for decision without oral argument. See Fed. R.App. P. 34(a)(2).
    
   MEMORANDUM

Darryl Lloyd White, a Nevada state prisoner, appeals pro se from the district court’s judgment dismissing his 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action without prejudice for failure to exhaust administrative remedies as required by the Prison Litigation Reform Act, 42 U.S.C. § 1997e(a). We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291. We review de novo the district court’s application of substantive law, and for clear error its factual determinations, Wyatt v. Terhune, 315 F.3d 1108, 1117 (9th Cir.2003), and we vacate and remand.

The district court dismissed White’s action for failure to exhaust in reliance on defendants’ submission of an unverified inmate appeal report. However, this document, unaccompanied by a declaration describing its import or completeness, is insufficient to meet the defendants’ burden to show nonexhaustion. See id. at 1120 (defendants’ “Appeal Record” document was insufficient to show nonexhaustion where the accompanying affidavit did not state whether the inmate had exhausted his appeals, and there was no evidence in the record establishing that the report was a complete record of the inmate’s grievances, as defendants represented). We therefore remand to the district court for further proceedings, including an opportunity for both parties to offer additional evidence pertaining to exhaustion.

The parties shall bear their own costs on appeal.

VACATED and REMANDED. 
      
       This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by 9 th Cir. R. 36-3.