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Nature of Suit Code: 893
Nature of Suit: Environmental Matters
Cause of Action: 33:1319 Clean Water Act

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

CALIFORNIA SPORTFISHING 

PROTECTION ALLIANCE, a 

nonprofit corporation, 

Plaintiff,

v.

NORTHERN RECYCLING & WASTE 

SERVICES, a California 

corporation; and DOUGLAS 

SPEICHER, an individual,

Defendants.

No. 2:14-cv-01601-GEB-CKD

ORDER RE: SETTLEMENT AND 

DISPOSITION

Plaintiff filed a “Notice of Settlement” on May 25, 

2015, in which it states:

Plaintiff California Sportfishing Protection 

Alliance (“CSPA”) and Defendants, parties in 

the above-captioned action, have reached 

settlement and executed a [Proposed] Consent 

Agreement. The settlement is contingent upon 

the expiration of the federal agencies’ 45-

day review period.

. . . [I]n 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)). Allowing three (3) days for 

mailing, the regulatory agencies’ review 

period will end on or about July 10, 2015; if 

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any of the reviewing agencies object to the 

proposed agreement, the parties would require 

additional time to meet and confer and 

attempt to resolve the agencies’ concerns. 

Consequently, the parties submit that good 

cause exists to set July 24, 2015, as the 

deadline for the filing of a Stipulation for 

Approval of Consent Agreement and Dismissal 

of Plaintiff’s Claims with Prejudice, or a 

Notice that the settlement is null and void.

(Pl.’s Notice of Settlement, ECF No. 17.)

Therefore, a dispositional document shall be filed no 

later than July 24, 2015. Failure to respond by this deadline may 

be construed as consent to dismissal of this action without 

prejudice, and a dismissal order could be filed. See E.D. Cal. 

R. 160(b) (“A failure to file dispositional papers on the date 

prescribed by the Court may be grounds for sanctions.”).

Further, a Status Conference is scheduled for hearing 

at 9:00 a.m. on August 17, 2015, in the event no dispositional 

document is filed, or if this action is not otherwise dismissed. 

A joint status report shall be filed fourteen (14) days prior to 

the status conference in which the parties shall address all 

pertinent subjects set forth in Local Rule 240.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: May 28, 2015

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