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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 Order Case No. 2:14-cv-01452-KJM-CKD 

Staying Proceedings and Vacating Existing Dates 

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Michael R. Lozeau (State Bar No. 142893) 

Richard T. Drury (State Bar No. 163559) 

Rebecca L. Davis (State Bar No. 271662) 

LOZEAU DRURY LLP 

410 12th Street, Suite 250 

Oakland, CA 94607 

Tel: (510) 836-4200 

Fax: (510) 836-4205 (fax) 

E-mail: michael@lozeaudrury.com 

 richard@lozeaudrury.com 

 rebecca@lozeaudrury.com 

Attorneys for Plaintiff 

CALIFORNIA SPORTFISHING PROTECTION ALLIANCE 

Mark A. Pruner (State Bar No. 105259) 

1206 “Q” Street, Suite 1 

Sacramento, CA 95811 

Tel: (916) 447-1121 

Fax: (916) 447-9661 

E-mail: mpruner@prunerlaw.com 

Attorney for Defendant 

RIVER CITY WASTE RECYCLERS, LLC 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

CALIFORNIA SPORTSFISHING 

PROTECTION ALLIANCE, a non-profit 

corporation, 

 Plaintiff, 

 vs. 

RIVER CITY WASTE RECYCLERS, 

LLC, a California Limited Liability 

Company, 

 Defendant. 

Case No. 2:14-cv-01452-KJM-CKD 

Assigned to Hon. Kimberly J. Mueller 

NOTICE OF SETTLEMENT; 

STIPULATION AND ORDER 

STAYING PROCEEDINGS AND 

VACATING EXISTING DATES 

 

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PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the parties have reached a settlement resolving all of the 

remaining claims in this action. Entry of the settlement, however, must await 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

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 consent decree 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 is being mailed to the agencies on September 19, 2016. The 

regulatory agencies’ review period will end by approximately November 12, 2016 (allowing 

forty-five days for agency review and approximately nine days for mailing time). If any of the 

reviewing agencies object to the proposed Consent Decree, the parties may require additional 

time to meet and confer and attempt to resolve the agencies’ concerns. At the end of the 45-day 

review period, the parties will file the proposed Consent Agreement for review and approval by 

the Court. 

 In light of the settlement agreement entered into by the parties and the need to await the 

conclusion of the agencies’ 45-day review period, Plaintiff California Sportfishing Protection 

Alliance (“CSPA”) and Defendant River City Waste Recyclers, LLC (“River City”), through 

their respective counsel, stipulate and agree as follows: 

WHEREAS, on June 17, 2014, CSPA filed its Complaint in this action; 

 

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

shall be entered 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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WHEREAS, CSPA and River City have previously engaged in settlement discussions 

and renewed their settlement discussions subsequent to the Court’s issuance of its September 6, 

2016 order granting in part CSPA’s motion for summary judgment; 

 WHEREAS, the parties successfully completed and executed a proposed Consent 

Decree on September 16, 2016; 

WHEREAS, on Monday, September 19, 2016, CSPA will be submitting the proposed 

Consent Decree via certified mail, return receipt requested, to the U.S. EPA and the U.S. 

Department of Justice and must await the completion of the 45-day review period set forth at 40 

C.F.R. § 135.5 and 33 U.S.C. § 1365(c)(2); 

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

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

agreement; 

WHEREAS, in light of the parties’ entering into the settlement agreement and the need 

to allow the federal agencies 45 days to review the proposed Consent Decree, the parties further 

request that the Court immediately stay all proceedings in this action until December 1, 2016, by 

which date the parties expect to have filed the proposed Consent Decree for approval by the 

Court. The parties further request that all deadlines and dates currently scheduled by the Court 

be vacated. 

WHEREAS, Local Rule 160(b) requires the Court to fix a date upon which the 

documents disposing of the action must be filed within 21 days of this notice absent good cause. 

Given the statutorily mandated 45-day review period, good cause exists to set December 1, 2016 

as the date by which the Proposed Consent Decree or a Notice that the settlement is null and 

void must be filed. 

THEREFORE, IT IS HEREBY STIPULATED, by and between CSPA and River 

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

until December 1, 2016 and, with the exception of this Stipulation, vacate all deadlines and dates 

currently scheduled by the Court. 

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Respectfully submitted, 

Date: September 16, 2016 LAW OFFICE OF MARK A. PRUNER 

/s/ Mark A. Pruner (as authorized on September 16, 2016) 

By: Mark A. Pruner, Esq. 

Attorney for Defendant River City Waste Recyclers, LLC 

Date: September 16, 2016 LOZEAU DRURY LLP 

/s/ Michael R. Lozeau 

By: Michael R. Lozeau, Esq. 

Attorneys for Plaintiff California Sportfishing Protection 

Alliance 

PURSUANT TO STIPULATION, IT IS SO ORDERED 

Date: September 26, 2016 

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