San Luis Unit Food Producers v. United States

OPINION

TROTT, Circuit Judge:

Today we consider whether farmers and farming entities (collectively, “Farmers”) that irrigate their land using water from the San Luis Unit of the Central Valley Project — -the nation’s largest reclamation project — may maintain a claim under the Administrative Procedure Act (“APA”) to compel the United States Bureau of Reclamation (“the Bureau”) to provide the Farmers’ irrigation districts with more water than it is currently providing. The Farmers argue that several federal statutes require the Bureau to provide irrigators with sufficient irrigation water to…