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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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NOTICE OF SETTLEMENT; ORDER 1 Case No. 2:14-cv-01380-TLN-AC

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MICHAEL R. LOZEAU (State Bar No. 142893)

DOUGLAS J. CHERMAK (State Bar No. 233382)

Lozeau Drury LLP

410 12th Street, Suite 250

Oakland, CA 94607

Tel: (510) 836-4200

Fax: (510) 836-4203 (fax)

E-mail: michael@lozeaudrury.com

 doug@lozeaudrury.com

Attorneys for Plaintiff

CALIFORNIA SPORTFISHING PROTECTION ALLIANCE

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

CALIFORNIA SPORTFISHING 

PROTECTION ALLIANCE, a non-profit 

corporation,

 Plaintiff,

vs.

DRAGON ESP LTD., a corporation.

 Defendant.

Case No. 2:14-cv-01380-TLN-AC

NOTICE OF SETTLEMENT; ORDER

[L.R. 160 and FRCP 16]

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE pursuant to Local Rule 160(a) that the parties have reached a 

settlement resolving all claims in this action. The settlement is contingent upon the expiration of the 

federal agency 45-day review period.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 

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)). 

 

1 Title 33 of the United States Code, Section 1365(c) provides that “[n]o consent judgment shall 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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NOTICE OF SETTLEMENT; ORDER 2 Case No. 2:14-cv-01380-TLN-AC

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Such notice will be mailed to the agencies by January 30, 2015, at the very latest. The regulatory 

agencies’ review period will thus end by approximately March 26, 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 agreement, the parties would require additional time to meet and confer and attempt 

to resolve the agencies’ concerns. 

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 March 26, 2015, as the date by which a Stipulation for 

Approval of Settlement Agreement and Dismissal of Plaintiff’s Claims or a Notice that the 

settlement is null and void must be filed. 

Dated: January 23, 2015 Respectfully submitted,

LOZEAU DRURY LLP

By: __Douglas J. Chermak_________________

Douglas J. Chermak

Attorney for Plaintiff

CALIFORNIA SPORTFISHING PROTECTION ALLIANCE

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: January 23, 2015

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