Northwest Environmental Defense Center v. United States Army Corps of Engineers

OPINION AND ORDER

ACOSTA, United States Magistrate Judge:

Plaintiff Northwest Environmental Defense Center (“NEDC”) brought this action against the United States Army Corps of Engineers (“Corps”) and the National Marine Fisheries Service (“NMFS”) (collectively, “Defendants”), challenging the Corps’ issuance of a five-year regional general permit (“RGP”), which authorizes limited commercial in-stream gravel mining on the Chetco River in southwest Oregon. In its Amended Complaint, NEDC alleges the Corps violated the Federal Advisory Committee Act (“FACA”), the Administrative Procedure Act…