CARSON-TRUCKEE WATER CONSERVANCY DIST. v. WATT

No. CV-R-76-152-GJS.

549 F.Supp. 704 (1982)

CARSON-TRUCKEE WATER CONSERVANCY DISTRICT, Sierra Pacific Power Company, a corporation, and State of Nevada, Plaintiffs, v. James G. WATT, Secretary of the Interior, et al., Defendants, and Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe of Indians, Defendant-Intervenor.

United States District Court, D. Nevada.

October 4, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John M. Collette, Andrew J. Ogilvie, Collette & Erickson, San Francisco, Cal., for plaintiffs Carson-Truckee Water Conservancy Dist. and Sierra Pacific Power Co.

John Madariaga, Susan L. Oldham, Reno, Nev., for plaintiff Sierra Pacific Power Co.

Richard H. Bryan, Atty. Gen., Larry D. Struve, Chief Deputy Atty. Gen., Harry W. Swainston, Deputy Atty. Gen., Carson City, Nev., Harold A. Swafford, John W. Hoffman, Matthew Feiertag, Bowen, Swafford & Hoffman, Reno, Nev., for plaintiff State of Nev.

Lamond R. Mills, U.S. Atty., Shirley A. Smith, Asst. U.S. Atty., Reno, Nev., Rembert A. Gaddy, Dale T. White, Dept. of Justice, Land & Natural Resources Div., Brenda Washington, U.S. Dept. of Interior, Office of the Solicitor, Washington D.C., for defendant James Watt and U.S. Agencies and Officers.

Robert S. Pelcyger, Fredericks & Pelcyger, Boulder, Colo., Michael Thorp, Eisenhower, Carlson, Newlands, Reha, Henriot & Quinn, Tacoma, Wash., E. Pierre Gezelin, Reno, Nev., for defendant-intervenor Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe of Indians.


OPINION

SOLOMON, District Judge:

This is an action to compel the defendant, the Secretary of the Interior (Secretary) to store water in the Stampede Reservoir for the benefit of plaintiffs, and to compel the Secretary to enter into a contract with plaintiffs for plaintiffs to reimburse the United States government (government) for the costs of the Stampede Dam and Reservoir (Stampede).

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