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JEFFREY H. WOOD, Acting Assistant Attorney General

DEVON LEHMAN McCUNE, Senior Attorney

CO State Bar No. 33223

United States Department of Justice

Environment and Natural Resources Division

999 18th Street, South Terrace, Suite 370

Denver, Colorado 80202

Tel: (303) 844-1487/Fax: (303) 844-1350

Email: Devon.McCune@usdoj.gov

TAYLOR N. FERRELL, Trial Attorney

D.C. Bar No. 498260

United States Department of Justice

Environment and Natural Resources Division

P.O. Box 7611

Washington, D.C. 20004-7611

Tel: (202) 305-0874 

Fax: (202) 305-0506

Taylor.ferrell@usdoj.gov

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE DISTRICT OF ARIZONA

RITA B. ORNELAS, et al.,

Plaintiffs, 

v.

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT 

OF THE AIR FORCE, et al.,

Defendants.

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Case No. 4:16-cv-00046-JAS-JR

JOINT STATUS REPORT

The Parties submit this status report in accordance with the Order Staying 

Briefing Schedule, ECF No. 34. 

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1. Plaintiffs brought this action pursuant to the Administrative 

Procedure Act, challenging a United States Department of Air Force (“Air Force”) 

decision regarding its proposed Total Force Training program at Davis-Monthan 

Air Force Base in Tuscon, Arizona. 

2. In May 2017, the Air Force decided to terminate its Operation 

Snowbird training program, which comprises a large majority of the Total Force 

Training program being challenged by Plaintiffs. 

3. On August 14, 2017, Colonel Jennifer L. Kilbourn signed a 

document withdrawing the Environmental Assessment and Finding of No 

Significant Impact for the Total Force Training program at Davis-Monthan Air 

Force Base, attached as Att. 1. The Total Force Training program at DavisMonthan will terminate as of September 30, 2017.

4. Based on this recent development, counsel for parties have conferred 

and believe that it is in the best interests of the parties and in the interest of judicial 

economy to stay the remaining briefing scheduled in this case while they 

determine the next steps. The parties propose that they submit to the Court a 

status report within thirty (30) days. 

Submitted this 21st day of August, 2017.

JEFFREY H. WOOD

Acting Assistant Attorney 

General

 /s/ Devon Lehman McCune

DEVON LEHMAN MCCUNE

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Senior Attorney

United States Department of 

Justice

Environment & Natural 

Resources Division 

Natural Resources Section

999 18th St., S. Terrace, Suite 370

Denver, CO 80202

(303) 844-1487 tel.)

(303) 844-1350 (fax)

Devon.McCune@usdoj.gov

/s/ Timothy M. Hogan

Timonthy M. Hogan

Arizona Center for Law in the 

Public Interest

514 W. Roosevelt St.

Phoenix, AZ 85003

(602) 258-8850

thogan@aclpi.org

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CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE

I hearby certify that on August 21, 2017, I electronically filed the foregoing

STATUS REPORT with the Clerk of Court using the CM/ECF system which 

sent notice to all attorneys of record. 

 /s/ Devon Lehman McCune

DEVON LEHMAN MCCUNE

Senior Attorney

United States Department of 

Justice

Environment & Natural 

Resources Division 

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