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NOT FOR PUBLICATION                           FILED
                    UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS                       APR 30 2024
                                                                      MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK
                                                                       U.S. COURT OF APPEALS
                           FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

DAVE WAYNE ERLANSON, Sr.,                       No. 22-35894

                Plaintiff-Appellant,            D.C. No. 4:22-cv-00091-DCN

 v.
                                                MEMORANDUM*
U.S. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
AGENCY,

                Defendant-Appellee.

                   Appeal from the United States District Court
                             for the District of Idaho
                     David C. Nye, District Judge, Presiding

                            Submitted April 22, 2024**

Before:      CALLAHAN, LEE, and FORREST, Circuit Judges.

      Dave Wayne Erlanson, Sr., appeals pro se from the district court’s judgment

dismissing for lack of subject matter jurisdiction his 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action

against the United States Environmental Protection Agency. We review de novo,

Prather v. AT&T, Inc., 847 F.3d 1097, 1102 (9th Cir. 2017), and we affirm.

      *
             This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent
except as provided by Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3.
      **
             The panel unanimously concludes this case is suitable for decision
without oral argument. See Fed. R. App. P. 34(a)(2).
      The district court properly dismissed Erlanson’s action for lack of subject

matter jurisdiction because Erlanson failed to establish that the United States

waived its sovereign immunity. See Jachetta v. United States, 653 F.3d 898, 908

(9th Cir. 2011) (explaining that 42 U.S.C. § 1983 does not waive sovereign

immunity for United States agencies).

      AFFIRMED.

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