BILLY J. WILLIAMS, OSB # 901366 

United States Attorney 

STEPHEN J. ODELL, OSB # 903550 

Assistant United States Attorney 

steve.odell@usdoj .gov 

1000 S.W. Third Avenue, Suite 600 

Portland, Oregon 97204 

Telephone: (503) 727-1024 

Fax: (503) 727-1117 

Of Attorneys for Defendants 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

DISTRICT OF OREGON 

PORTLAND DIVISION 

HOOD RIVER VALLEY RESIDENTS 

COMMITTEE, an Oregon non-profit 

corporation, MIKE MCCARTHY, individually, 

HOOD RIVER COUNTY by and through the 

BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF 

HOOD RIVER COUNTY, an Oregon municipal 

corporation, CLACKAMAS COUNTY, by and 

through the BOARD OF COUNTY 

COMMISSIONERS OF CLACKAMAS 

COUNTY, an Oregon municipal corporation, 

and MT. HOOD MEADOWS OREGON, LLC, 

an Oregon limited liability corporation. 

Plaintiffs, 

v. 

JIM PENA, Regional Director of Region 6 of 

the U.S. Department of Agriculture-Forest 

Service; LISA NORTHROP, Supervisor, Mt. 

Hood National Forest; THOMAS L. TIDWELL, 

Chief of the Forest Service; and the UNITED 

STATES FOREST SERVICE, an agency ofthe 

United States Department of Agriculture, 

Defendants. 

Case No.: 3:15-cv-01397-BR 

CERTIFICATION OF DEFENDANT 

U.S.D.A. FOREST SERVICE'S 

SECOND SUPPLEMENTAL 

ADMINISTRATIVE RECORD 

DECLARATION OF 

CHRISTOPHER D. EMMERICH 

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I, Christopher D. Emmerich, pursuant to 28 U.S.C § 1746, declare as follows: 

1. I am a Litigation and Freedom of Information Act/Privacy Act Support 

Specialist for the U.S. Department of Agriculture-Forest Service. I have been 

employed by the Forest Service in this position since July 2015. 

2. Under my direction and oversight, the Forest Service compiled and indexed the 

documents comprising its second supplemental administrative record 

underlying the administrative tasks, activities, and constituent steps in 

which the agency has engaged to date to implement the congressionally 

directed and conditioned land exchange with Mt. Hood Meadows Oregon, 

LLC, pursuant to Section 1206 of the Omnibus Public Land Management Act 

of 2009 Pub. L. 111-11, the completion of which Plaintiffs are asking this 

Court to compel through the use of its authority in 5 U.S.C. § 706(1). The 

current installment of the second supplemental administrative record being 

lodged with the Court and served on the parties through their counsel has 

been compiled in an electronic searchable format and will be indexed and 

filed separately on one disk. 

3. To the best of my knowledge and belief, the documents listed in the index are 

materials that have been considered, either directly or indirectly, by the 

relevant Forest Service officials in connection with its efforts to date in 

carrying out administrative tasks, activities, and constituent steps to 

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implement the land exchange the completion of which Plaintiffs ask the 

Court to compel in this action. In addition, each document in the record is a 

true and correct copy of an original document located in Forest Service files. 

I declare under penalty of perjury that the foregoing is true and correct to the 

best of my knowledge. 

Executed on this 13th day of April2016. 

~as;;= CHRISTOPHER D. EMMERICH 

Regional Litigation and FOIAJP A 

Support Specialist 

U.S.D.A. Forest Service 

Pacific Northwest Region 

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