CONFEDERATED TRIBES UMATILLA INDIAN RESERVATION v. BONNEVILLE POWER ADMINISTRATION

Nos. 01-71736, 01-71740.

342 F.3d 924 (2003)

CONFEDERATED TRIBES OF THE UMATILLA INDIAN RESERVATION; Nez Perce Tribe, Petitioners, Warm Springs Tribe; Shoshone-Bannock Tribes of the Fort Hall Indian Reservation, Idaho; State of Oregon, Petitioners-Intervenors, Pacific Northwest Generating Cooperative, Intervenor, v. BONNEVILLE POWER ADMINISTRATION, Respondent, Public Power Council, Respondent-Intervenor. Sierra Club; Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermens Associaton; Institute for Fisheries Resources; Idaho Rivers United, Inc., Petitioners, Pacific Northwest Generating Company (PNGC), Blachly-Lane County Cooperative Electric Association (Oregon); Central Electric Cooperative, Inc. (Oregon); Clearwater Power Company (Idaho); Consumers Power, Inc. (Oregon); Douglas Electric Cooperative (Oregon); Fall River Rural Electric Bpa No. Cooperative, Inc. (Idaho); Lane Electric Cooperative (Oregon); Lost River Rural Electric Cooperative (Idaho); Northern Lights, Inc. (Idaho); Okanogan County Electric Cooperative, Inc. (Washington); Raft River Rural Electric Cooperative (Idaho); Salmon River Electric Cooperative, Inc. (Idaho); Umatilla Electric Cooperative Association (Oregon); West Oregon Electric Cooperative, Inc. (Oregon), Intervenors, v. Bonneville Power Administration, Respondent, Public Power Council, Respondent-Intervenor.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed September 2, 2003.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Christopher B. Leahy, Fredricks & Pelcyger, Louisville, Colorado, for petitioner Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Reservation; Daniel J. Rohlf, Pacific Environmental Advocacy Center, Portland, Oregon, for petitioners, Sierra Club, et al., David J. Cummings, Lapwai, Idaho, for petitioner Nez Perce Tribe; Todd D. True, Earthjustice Legal Defense Fund, Seattle, Oregon, for petitioners, Sierra Club, et al.

Stephanie L. Striffler, Special Counsel to the Attorney General, Salem, Oregon, for petitioner-intervenor State of Oregon; Howard G. Arnett, Karnopp Petersen Noteboom Hansen Arnett & Sayeg LLP, Bend, Oregon, for petitioner-intervenor Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs Reservation of Oregon. David J. Adler, Portland, Oregon, and Mark R. Haag, Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for respondent Bonneville Power Administration.

Denise Peterson, Portland, Oregon, for respondent-intervenor Public Power Council.

R. Erick Johnson, Portland, Oregon, for non-aligned intervenor Pacific Northwest Generating Cooperative.

Clay R. Smith, Deputy Attorney General, Boise, Idaho, for amicus State of Idaho.

Before DONALD P. LAY, J. CLIFFORD WALLACE, and RICHARD C. TALLMAN, Circuit Judges.


Argued and Submitted May 6, 2003 — Portland, Oregon.

OPINION

WALLACE, Senior Circuit Judge:

Petitioners Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation and the Nez Perce Tribe (collectively, Tribes), Sierra Club, Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen's Associations, Institute for Fisheries Resources, and Idaho Rivers United (collectively, Sierra Club), and Petitioner-Intervenor State of Oregon petition for review of numerous decisions...

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