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CARSON-TRUCKEE WATER CONSERVANCY DIST. v. WATT

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

537 F.Supp. 106 (1982)

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

United States District Court, D. Nevada.

February 16, 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., Scott B. McElroy, Dept. of Justice, Land and Natural Resources Div., Washington, D. C., Joseph F. DePietro, Sacramento, Cal., for defendant Watt and U. S. agencies and officers.

Robert S. Pelcyger, Native American Rights Fund, Boulder, Colo., Michael R. Thorp, Eisenhower, Carlson, Newlands, Reha, Henriot & Quinn, Tacoma, Wash., for defendant-intervenor Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe of Indians.

OPINION

SOLOMON, District Judge:

This action arose out of a dispute over the waters of the Truckee River, which flows from the mountains of Eastern California through Stampede Dam and Reservoir (Stampede), and through Reno, Nevada. The Truckee empties into Pyramid Lake, which is surrounded by the Pyramid Lake Paiute Indian Reservation.

Plaintiffs Carson-Truckee Water Conservancy District (District) and Sierra Pacific Power Company (Sierra Pacific...

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