Joint Board of Control of the Flathead, Mission & Jocko Irrigation Districts v. United States

ALARCON, Circuit Judge:

Plaintiff/Appellant the Joint Board of Control of the Flathead, Mission and Jocko Irrigation Districts (“Joint Board”) filed an action in the district court for injunctive relief from operating procedures adopted by the Bureau of Indian Affairs (“BIA”), an agency within the Department of the Interior, to regulate instream flow and reservoir pool levels on the waters administered by the Flathead Irrigation and Power Project (“FIPP”), an agency within the BIA. Intervenor-Defendant/Appellee the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Reservation (“Tribes”)…