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Klamath Water Users v. Patterson

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit
Jan 28, 2000
203 F.3d 1175 (9th Cir. 2000)

Summary

upholding operation of Klamath project to meet senior Indian water rights prior to delivering water to irrigators

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Opinion


203 F.3d 1175 (9th Cir. 2000) KLAMATH WATER USERS PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION; KLAMATH DRAINAGE DISTRICT; SAM HENZEL; HENZEL PROPERTIES, LTD., Plaintiffs-counter-defendants-Appellants, v. ROGER PATTERSON, Regional Director, Mid-Pacific Region, U.S. Bureau of Reclamation; KARL E. WIRKUS, Area Manager, Klamath Irrigation Project, U.S. Bureau of Reclamation; ELUID MARTINEZ, Commissioner of Reclamation, U.S. Department of the Interior; PATRICIA BENEKE, Assistant Secretary for Water and Science, U.S. Department of the Interior; BRUCE BABBITT, Page 1176 Secretary of the Interior; THE UNITED STATES BUREAU OF RECLAMATION; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Defendants-Appellees, and PACIFICORP, Defendant-counter-claimant-Appellee, and NORTHCOAST ENVIRONMENTAL CENTER; PACIFIC COAST FEDERATION OF FISHERMENS ASSOCIATION; INSTITUTE FOR FISHERIES RESOURCES; KLAMATH FOREST ALLIANCE; MAZAMAS; OREGON NATURAL RESOURCES CENTER; THE WILDERNESS SOCIETY; WATERWATCH OF OREGON; YUROK TRIBE, Defendant-Intervenors-Appellees. No. 98-35708 United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit January 28, 2000

Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Oregon; Michael R. Hogan, District Judge, Presiding. D.C. No. CV-97-3033 MRH.

Before: Betty B. Fletcher, Warren J. Ferguson, and A. Wallace Tashima, Circuit Judges.

ORDER

The opinion filed September 9, 1999, is amending by adding a new footnote 3 at the end of Part II.B.3, slip op. at 11169, 191 F.3d at 1123, as follows:

3. An adjudication of all of the rights to the use of the surface waters of the Klamath River Basin ("Basin"), within the State of Oregon, is now pending in state court. See United States v. Oregon, 44 F.3d 758 (9th Cir. 1994). That is a comprehensive water rights adjudication contemplated by the McCarran Amendment, 43 U.S.C. S 666, and questions of relative amounts and priorities, at least within the State of Oregon, will be decided there. Our decision in this case and that of that district court relate only to questions involving the Bureau's operation and management of the Project, and not to the relative rights of others not before the court to the use of the waters of the Basin.

With this amendment, the panel has voted to deny appellants' petition for panel rehearing. Judge Tashima votes to deny the petition for rehearing en banc and Judges B. Fletcher and Ferguson so recommend.

The full court has been advised of the petition for rehearing en banc and no judge of the court has requested a vote on en banc rehearing. Fed. R. App. P. 35(b).

The petition for panel rehearing and the petition for rehearing en banc are denied.


Summaries of

Klamath Water Users v. Patterson

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit
Jan 28, 2000
203 F.3d 1175 (9th Cir. 2000)

upholding operation of Klamath project to meet senior Indian water rights prior to delivering water to irrigators

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stating that there is a presumption that beneficiaries of government contracts are incidental beneficiaries

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Case details for

Klamath Water Users v. Patterson

Case Details

Full title:KLAMATH WATER USERS PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION; KLAMATH DRAINAGE DISTRICT; SAM…

Court:United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit

Date published: Jan 28, 2000

Citations

203 F.3d 1175 (9th Cir. 2000)

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