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Parties Involved:
Boeing Company
Counter Claimant
City of Fresno
Counter Defendant
National Guard Bureau
Counter Claimant
United States Army Corps of Engineers
Counter Claimant
United States of America
Counter Claimant

Document Text:

Order Re: The City of Fresno’s Motion for Reconsideration of the 

Court’s April 22, 2010 Dismissal of the City’s RCRA and HSAA Claims 

City of Fresno v. United States of America et al., No. 1:06-cv-01559-OWW-GSA 

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Ignacia S. Moreno 

Assistant Attorney General 

Environment & Natural Resources Division 

C. Scott Spear 

Kim N. Smaczniak 

Paul Cirino 

Environmental Defense Section 

United States Department of Justice 

P.O. Box 23986 

Washington, DC 20026-3986 

(202) 514-1542 (telephone) 

(202) 514-8865 (facsimile) 

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

THE CITY OF FRESNO, 

 

 Plaintiff, 

 

v. 

 

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, UNITED 

STATES ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS, 

NATIONAL GUARD BUREAU and THE 

BOEING COMPANY, 

 

Defendants. 

 

No. 1:06-cv-01559-OWW-GSA 

ORDER RE: THE CITY OF 

FRESNO’S MOTION FOR 

RECONSIDERATION OF THE 

COURT’S APRIL 22, 2010 DISMISSAL 

OF THE CITY’S RCRA AND HSAA 

CLAIMS (Doc. 281) 

Plaintiff The City of Fresno filed a Motion for Reconsideration (Doc. 281) concerning the 

Court’s April 22, 2010 Memorandum Decision (Doc. 228) granting two motions filed by the 

United States: (1) for partial judgment on the pleadings or partial summary judgment as to 

Plaintiff’s fourth claim under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (“RCRA”) (Doc. 

142); and (2) for partial summary judgment on the pleadings as to Plaintiff’s third claim under 

the Hazardous Substance Account Act (“HSAA”) (Doc. 143). The motions came on for hearing 

on June 14, 2010. All parties were represented by counsel at the hearing. 

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Order Re: The City of Fresno’s Motion for Reconsideration of the 

Court’s April 22, 2010 Dismissal of the City’s RCRA and HSAA Claims 

City of Fresno v. United States of America et al., No. 1:06-cv-01559-OWW-GSA 

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After considering all papers filed in connection with the motion and hearing oral 

argument, it is hereby ORDERED, ADJUDGED AND DECREED as follows: 

1. Plaintiff’s motion to reconsider the April 22, 2010, Memorandum Decision 

Granting the United States’ Motion for Partial Judgment on the Pleadings or for Partial Summary 

Judgment as to Plaintiff’s Claim Under RCRA (Doc. 142) is DENIED. 

2. Plaintiff’s motion to reconsider the April 22, 2010, Memorandum Decision 

Granting the United States’ Motion for Partial Judgment on the Pleadings as to Plaintiff’s Claim 

Under HSAA (Doc. 143) is GRANTED IN PART and DENIED IN PART. The motion is 

DENIED in all respects, except that it is GRANTED only to the extent that the Memorandum 

Decision filed April 22, 2010 (Doc. 228) is amended as follows: 

a. Deleting at Page 41, lines 6 through 9, the sentence: “The United States also 

maintains that the property leased by the federal government – AVCRAD and 

CANG – was remediated, therefore the City did not incur any response costs 

on federal property.” 

b. Deleting at Page 45, lines 1 through 3, the sentence: “Second, it is/was 

impossible for the City to incur response costs at either AVCRAD or CANG 

because the Corps remediated both sites many years ago.” 

c. Deleting footnote 24, at page 45, in its entirety. 

IT IS SO ORDERED. 

Dated: July 1, 2010 /s/ Oliver W. Wanger

hkh80h UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

 

 

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