Case Name: Daniel H. WESTCOTT, Jr., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF the INTERIOR, National Park Service, Defendant-Appellee
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2010-08-17
Citations: 392 F. App'x 562
Docket Number: No. 06-35451
Parties: Daniel H. WESTCOTT, Jr., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF the INTERIOR, National Park Service, Defendant-Appellee.
Judges: Before: SCHROEDER, O’SCANNLAIN and CLIFTON, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 392
Pages: 562–563

Head Matter:
Daniel H. WESTCOTT, Jr., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF the INTERIOR, National Park Service, Defendant-Appellee.
No. 06-35451.
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
Argued and Submitted July 28, 2010.
Filed Aug. 17, 2010.
Bruce Weyhrauch, The Law Office of Bruce B. Weyhrauch, LLC, Juneau, AK, for Plaintiff-Appellant.
Christine Noel Kohl, Esquire, Michael Jay Singer, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC, Susan Jane Lindquist, Esquire, Assistant U.S., Office of the U.S. Attorney, Anchorage, AK, for Defendant-Appellee.
Before: SCHROEDER, O’SCANNLAIN and CLIFTON, Circuit Judges.

Opinion:
MEMORANDUM
Plaintiff-Appellant Daniel Westcott appeals the district court's entry of summary judgment in favor of Defendant-Appellee National Park Service ("NPS") in West-cott's action under the Administrative Procedure Act ("APA") challenging the NPS's distribution of funds as part of the Glacier Bay Commercial Fishing Compensation Program. See Pub.L. No. 106-31, § 501(b), 113 Stat. 57, 72-73 (1999) (codified at 16 U.S.C. § 410hh-4 note). West-cott contends that he should have received over $256,000 based on the original estimates in the compensation plan of the amount of funding to be allocated to Dungeness crab crew members, as determined by an estimate of the number of claims that would be submitted in this category. The $15,000 he received represented his proportional share of the total amount of funds allocated to his category after all claims had been submitted. It in fact roughly equaled the total amount he had earned in the three seasons he worked on his parents' Dungeness crab fishing boat.
The district court found that the NPS's reallocation of funds did not require the State of Alaska's additional concurrence. This factual finding is supported by the record and is not clearly erroneous. The record indeed reflects the State did not object to that allocation.
The NPS did not violate the APA when it reallocated funds within the compensation plan without first providing notice and an opportunity for public comment. There was no substantive rulemaking requiring such procedures. The allocation of funds was an interpretive rule. See 5 U.S.C. § 553(b)(3)(A); Reno-Sparks Indian Colony v. EPA, 336 F.3d 899, 909 (9th Cir.2003).
AFFIRMED.
This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by 9th Cir. R. 36-3.