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Parties Involved:
California Sportfishing Protection Alliance
Plaintiff
El Dorado Irrigation District
Defendant
United States
Amicus

Document Text:

NOTICE OF SETTLEMENT AND STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] ORDER TO EXTEND TIME TO ANSWER THE 

COMPLAINT AND FILE A JOINT STATUS REPORT 

Case No. 2-10-CV-00235-JAM-JFM 

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Michael Lozeau (Bar No. 142893) 

 michael@lozeaudrury.com

David Zizmor (Bar No. 255863) 

 david@lozeaudrury.com

LOZEAU | DRURY LLP 

1516 Oak Street, #216 

Alameda, California 94501 

Telephone: (510) 749-9102 

Facsimile: (510) 749-9103 

Daniel Cooper (Bar No. 153576) 

daniel@lawyersforcleanwater.com

Samantha Williams (Bar No. 251344) 

samantha@ lawyersforcleanwater.com 

LAWYERS FOR CLEAN WATER, INC. 

1004-A O’Reilly Avenue 

San Francisco, California 94129 

Telephone: (415) 440-6520 

Facsimile: (415) 440-4155 

Attorneys for Plaintiff 

California Sportfishing Protection Alliance 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

CALIFORNIA SPORTFISHING 

PROTECTION ALLIANCE, a California 

non-profit corporation, 

 Plaintiff, 

vs. 

EL DORADO IRRIGATION DISTRICT, a 

California irrigation district. 

 Defendant.

Case No. 2-10-CV-00235-JAM-JFM 

NOTICE OF SETTLEMENT AND 

STIPULATION AND ORDER TO 

EXTEND TIME TO ANSWER THE 

COMPLAINT AND FILE A JOINT 

STATUS REPORT 

 

Judge: Hon. John A. Mendez 

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NOTICE OF SETTLEMENT AND STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] ORDER TO EXTEND TIME TO ANSWER THE 

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

this action. The settlement is contingent upon 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 

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)). 

Such notice was mailed to the agencies on May 26, 2010. The regulatory agencies’ review period 

will end by approximately July 19, 2010 (allowing forty-five days for agency review and 

approximately nine 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. At the end of the 45-day review period, the parties will file either a Stipulation 

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

settlement is null and void. 

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 El Dorado Irrigation District (“EDID”), through their respective counsel, 

stipulate and agree as follows: 

WHEREAS, on January 28, 2010, CSPA filed its complaint in this action; 

WHEREAS, on January 29, 2010, the Court issued an Order Requiring Joint Status Report 

(“Order”) requiring the parties to file a join status report within 60-days of service of the complaint 

and summons; 

WHEREAS, CSPA and EDID have been diligently engaged in settlement discussions since 

 

1 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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prior to the filing of the complaint; 

WHEREAS, EDID waived service of the summons on April 1, 2010 and is required to file a 

responsive pleading to the complaint not later than June 1, 2010; 

WHEREAS, the Court’s Order dated January 29, 2010, as revised by the minute order 

entered on May 26, 2010, requires the parties to file a joint status report not later than June 4, 2010; 

WHEREAS, the parties successfully completed and executed a Settlement Agreement on 

May 25, 2010; 

WHEREAS, on May 26, 2010, the parties submitted the Settlement Agreement via certified 

mail, return receipt requested, to the U.S. EPA and the U.S. Department of Justice and must now 

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 preserve 

costs incurred in this matter pending the agencies review of the executed settlement agreement; 

THEREFORE, IT IS HEREBY STIPULATED by and between CSPA and EDID, through 

their respective counsel of record, that EDID’s time to file a responsive pleading to CSPA’s 

complaint shall be extended to and including August 5, 2010. 

IT IS HEREBY FURTHER STIPULATED by and between CSPA and EDID, through 

their respective counsel of record, that the time to file a joint status report shall be extended to and 

including August 5, 2010. 

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The parties respectfully request an order from this Court that both extends EDID’s time to file 

a responsive pleading to CSPA’s complaint and the time for the parties to file a joint status report 

through August 5, 2010. 

Dated: May 26, 2010 Respectfully submitted, 

 LOZEAU DRURY LLP 

 By: Michael R. Lozeau 

 Michael R. Lozeau 

 Attorney for Plaintiff 

 CALIFORNIA SPORTFISHING PROTECTION ALLIANCE 

 DOWNEY BRAND LLP 

 By: Nicole Granquist (as authorized on May 26, 2010) 

 Nicole Granquist 

 Attorney for Defendant 

 EL DORADO IRRIGATION DISTRICT 

ORDER 

IT IS SO ORDERED. 

Dated: May 26, 2010 /s/ John A. Mendez_____________

 Honorable John A. Mendez 

 United States District Court Judge 

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