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Nature of Suit Code: 893
Nature of Suit: Environmental Matters
Cause of Action: 05:551 Administrative Procedure Act

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RONALD J. TENPAS

Acting Assistant Attorney General

Environment & Natural Resources Division

CYNTHIA HUBER

Assistant Section Chief

BRIAN C. TOTH

Trial Attorney

United States Department of Justice 

Environment & Natural Resources Division

P.O. Box 663

Washington, DC 20044-0663

BARCLAY SAMFORD

Trial Attorney

Natural Resources Section

Environment & Natural Resources Division

U.S. Department of Justice

1961 Stout Street - 8th Floor

Denver, CO 80294

Telephone: (303) 844-1475

Facsimile: (303) 844-1350

McGREGOR W. SCOTT

United States Attorney

DAVID T. SHELLEDY

Assistant United States Attorney

501 I Street, Suite 10-100

Sacramento, CA 95814

Telephone: (916) 554-2702

Facsimile: (916) 554-2900

Attorneys for Federal Defendants

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

SIERRA FOREST LEGACY, et al., ) No. CIV-S-05-0205 MCE/GGH 

) 

Plaintiffs, ) Related Cases: CIV-05-0211 MCE/GGH 

) CIV-05-0905 MCE/GGH 

v. ) CIV-05-0953 MCE/GGH

) 

MARK REY, in his official capacity as Under ) JOINT STIPULATION

Secretary of Agriculture, et al., ) STAYING CONSIDERATION OF

) MOTION FOR PRELIMINARY

Federal Defendants, ) INJUNCTION

)

and )

)

TUOLUMNE COUNTY ALLIANCE FOR )

RESOURCES & ENVIRONMENT, et al.; )

CALIFORNIA SKI INDUSTRY ASS’N; )

QUINCY LIBRARY GROUP, et al.; and )

CALIFORNIA CATTLEMEN’S ASS’N, )

)

Defendant-Intervenors. )

______________________________________ ) 

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The parties to the above-entitled action, by their undersigned counsel of record, have

conferred and hereby stipulate as follows:

WHEREAS on August 6, 2007, Federal Defendants notified Plaintiffs that they intend to

award logging contracts for Freeman Project on August 31, 2007, and on-the-ground operations

could begin very soon after contracts are awarded; and

WHEREAS on August 10, 2007, Plaintiffs moved this Court to enjoin preliminarily the

Freeman Project pending the Court’s ruling on the parties’ pending cross-motions for summary

judgment, and a hearing on Plaintiffs’ motion for preliminary injunction is currently scheduled

for August 23, 2007 at 11:00 a.m.; and

WHEREAS on August 16, 2007, Plaintiffs, Federal Defendants, and

Defendant-Intervenor Quincy Library Group met informally to discuss potential resolution of

Plaintiffs’ objections to the Freeman project and additional projects proposed under the 2004

Framework; and

WHEREAS the parties have agreed that further negotiation regarding the Freeman Project

and other projects is appropriate;

NOW, THEREFORE, THE PARTIES STIPULATE AS FOLLOWS:

1. To allow the parties time to conduct further negotiations regarding the Freeman Project,

the parties request that the hearing on Plaintiffs’ motion for preliminary injunction currently

scheduled for August 23, 2007 at 11:00 a.m. be rescheduled for September 7, 2007 at 11:00 a.m.

2. The parties agree that the Federal Defendants may proceed to award logging contracts for

the Freeman Project no sooner than August 31, 2007, provided that:

a. The award of contracts for the Freeman Project may not be cited by any party or

considered by the Court as a factor in considering the balance of hardships in this case;

b. Federal Defendants will require, as a condition of contract award, that any

contracts for the Freeman Project awarded before September 15, 2007, require that the purchaser

not begin operations until September 15, 2007. Federal Defendants will promptly provide

confirmation of this requirement to Plaintiffs; 

c. The agreement to delay implementation may not be cited by any party or

considered by the Court to indicate a lack of imminent need for the work in the Freeman Project.

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Dated: August 21, 2007 Respectfully submitted,

 /s/ Gregory C. Loarie 

GREGORY C. LOARIE

MICHAEL R. SHERWOOD

Earthjustice

426 17 Street, 5 Floor th th

Oakland, CA 94612

DAVID B. EDELSON

840 Grizzly Peak Blvd

Berkeley, CA 80302

PATRICK GALLAGHER

Sierra Club Environmental Law Program

85 2 St., Fourth Floor nd

San Francisco, CA 94109-3441

Attorneys for Plaintiffs Sierra Forest Legacy et al.

Dated: August 21, 2007 Respectfully submitted,

RONALD J. TENPAS

Acting Assistant Attorney General 

Environment & Natural Resources Division

 /s/ Barclay T. Samford 

BARCLAY T. SAMFORD

Trial Attorney

Natural Resources Section

Environment & Natural Resources Division

U.S. Department of Justice

1961 Stout Street - 8th Floor

Denver, CO 80294

Attorneys for Federal Defendants

Dated: August 21, 2007 Respectfully submitted,

Steven P. Rice (SBN 094321)

CROWELL & MORING LLP

3 Park Plaza

20th Floor

Irvine, CA 92614-8505

/s/ Thomas R. Lundquist 

Thomas R. Lundquist (D.C. Bar No. 968123, pro hac vice)

J. Michael Klise (D.C. Bar No. 412420; pro hac vice)

Steven P. Quarles (D.C. Bar No. 351668)

CROWELL & MORING LLP

1001 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.

Washington, D.C. 20004-2595

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Attorneys for Intervenor Defendants Tuolumne County

Alliance for Resources & Environment, et al. 

Dated: August 21, 2007 Respectfully submitted,

 /s/ William J. Thomas 

WILLIAM J. THOMAS

Best Best & Krieger LLP 

400 Capitol Mall, Suite 1650 

Sacramento, CA 95814 

Attorneys for Intervenor Defendant California Cattlemen’s

Association

Dated: August 21, 2007 Respectfully submitted,

 /s/ Brain A. Kelly 

BRAIN A. KELLY

DUANE MORRIS, LLP

One Market St., Spear Tower, Suite 2000

San Francisco, CA 94105

Attorneys for Intervenor Defendant California Ski Industry

Association

Dated: August 21, 2007 Respectfully submitted

 /s/ Michael B. Jackson 

MICHAEL B. JACKSON

429 West Main St.

Quincy, CA

Attorney for Defendant Intervenors Quincy Library Group

and Plumas County

ORDER

Pursuant to the foregoing stipulation of the parties, IT IS SO ORDERED. The hearing on

Plaintiffs’ motion for preliminary injunction currently scheduled for August 23, 2007 at 11:00 is

rescheduled for September 7, 2007 at 11:00 a.m. 

Dated: August 22, 2007

_____________________________

MORRISON C. ENGLAND, JR.

UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

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