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Nature of Suit Code: 893
Nature of Suit: Environmental Matters
Cause of Action: 33:1365 Environmental Matters

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Notice Of Settlement; Stipulation and [Proposed] Case No. 3:14-cv-03804-TEH 

Order Staying Proceedings and Vacating 

Existing Deadlines 

 

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Michael R. Lozeau (State Bar No. 142893) 

Douglas J. Chermak (State Bar No. 233382) 

LOZEAU DRURY LLP 

410 12th St., Suite 250 

Oakland, CA 94607 

Tel: (510) 836-4200 

Fax: (510) 836-4205 (fax) 

E-mail: michael@lozeaudrury.com 

 doug@lozeaudrury.com 

Attorneys for Plaintiff 

CALIFORNIA SPORTFISHING 

PROTECTION ALLIANCE 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

RENEWED EFFORTS OF NEIGHBORS 

AGAINST LANDFILL EXPANSION, an 

unincorporated association,

 Plaintiff, 

vs. 

COUNTY OF SONOMA, a political 

subdivision of the State of California; 

SONOMA COMPOST COMPANY, a 

corporation; SONOMA COUNTY WASTE 

MANAGEMENT AGENCY, a public 

agency, 

 Defendants. 

Case No. 3:14-CV-03804-TEH 

NOTICE OF SETTLEMENT; STIPULATION 

AND [PROPOSED] ORDER STAYING 

PROCEEDINGS AND VACATING 

EXISTING DEADLINES 

Judge: Hon. Thelton E. Henderson 

Case Management Conference: August 3, 2015 

Time: 1:30 p.m. 

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the remaining parties in this action, Plaintiff RENEWED 

EFFORTS OF NEIGHBORS AGAINST LANDFILL EXPANSION (“RENALE”), and Defendant 

SONOMA COMPOST COMPANY (“Sonoma Compost”) (hereinafter collectively “settling 

parties”), have reached a settlement resolving all claims in this action. The settling parties plan to 

finalize the terms of the settlement agreement by July 29, 2015. The settlement will be contingent 

upon the expiration of the federal agencies’ 45-day review period required by the Federal Water 

Pollution Control Act, 33 U.S.C. § 1365(c)(2).1

 

1 Title 33 of the United States Code, Section 1365(c)(2) provides that “[n]o consent judgment shall be entered 

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PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that, in accordance with federal law, no judgment 

disposing of this action may be entered prior to 45 days following the receipt of the proposed 

settlement agreement by the United States Department of Justice and the national and Region IX 

offices of the United States Environmental Protection Agency. See 40 C.F.R. § 135.5 (requiring the 

parties to provide notice to the court of the 45-day agency review period under 33 U.S.C. § 1365(c)). 

Such notice will be mailed to the agencies by July 30, 2015. The regulatory agencies’ review period 

will end by approximately September 23, 2015 (allowing forty-five days for agency review and 

approximately ten days for mailing time). If any of the reviewing agencies object to the proposed 

Settlement Agreement, the settling parties would require additional time to meet and confer and 

attempt to resolve the agencies’ concerns. At the end of the 45-day review period, the settling 

parties will file either a Stipulation for Approval of Settlement Agreement and Dismissal of 

Plaintiff’s Claims with Prejudice or a notice that the agencies objected to the proposed Settlement 

Agreement. 

 In light of the settlement agreement that will be entered into by the settlement parties and the 

need to await the conclusion of the agencies’ 45-day review period, the settling parties, through their 

respective counsel, stipulate and agree as follows: 

WHEREAS, on August 21, 2014, RENALE filed its complaint in this action; 

WHEREAS, RENALE and Sonoma Compost have been diligently engaged in settlement 

discussions for the past six weeks; 

 WHEREAS, the settling parties have agreed on all material terms of a Settlement 

Agreement and plan to execute it by July 29, 2015. 

WHEREAS, by July 30, 2015, the settling parties will submit the Settlement Agreement via 

certified mail, return receipt requested, to the U.S. EPA and the U.S. Department of Justice and will 

then await the completion of the 45-day review period set forth at 40 C.F.R. § 135.5 and 33 U.S.C. § 

 

in an action in which the United States is not a party prior to 45-days following the receipt of a copy of the 

proposed consent judgment by the Attorney General and the Administrator.” 

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1365(c)(2); 

WHEREAS, in the interests of efficiency and judicial economy, the settling parties wish to 

preserve costs incurred in this matter pending the agencies review of the executed settlement 

agreement; 

WHEREAS, a case management conference is scheduled for August 3, 2015; 

WHEREAS, in light of the settling parties’ entering into the Settlement Agreement and the 

need to allow the federal agencies 45 days to review the Settlement Agreement, the settling parties 

further request that the Court immediately stay all proceedings in this action until September 23, 

2015, by which date the settling parties expect to have filed a Stipulation for Approval of Settlement 

Agreement and Dismissal of Plaintiff’s Claims with Prejudice with the Court. 

THEREFORE, IT IS HEREBY STIPULATED by and between RENALE and Sonoma 

Compost, through their respective counsel of record, that the Court stay all proceedings in this action 

until September 23, 2015, and, with the exception of this Stipulation, vacate all deadlines and dates 

currently scheduled by the Court. 

July 27, 2015 Respectfully submitted, 

 /s/ Douglas J. Chermak _ 

 Douglas J. Chermak 

 Attorneys for Plaintiff RENEWED EFFORTS 

 OF NEIGHBORS AGAINST LANDFILL 

 EXPANSION 

 

 /s/ Nicole E. Granquist____

 (as authorized on 7/27/15) 

 Nicole E. Granquist 

 Attorney for Defendant SONOMA COMPOST 

 COMPANY 

 

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PURSUANT TO STIPULATION, IT IS SO ORDERED. 

Dated: _________________ 

 

 _______________________ 

 Honorable Thelton E. Henderson 

 United States District Judge

07/28/2015

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORN

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Judge Thelton E. Henderson

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