Consolidated Salmonid Cases

MEMORANDUM DECISION RE CROSS-MOTIONS FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT ON NEPA ISSUES (Docs. 82 & 83).

OLIVER W. WANGER, District Judge.

I. INTRODUCTION

These consolidated cases all challenge the June 4, 2009 issuance of a biological opinion by the National Marine Fisheries Service (“NMFS”), finding that the coordinated operations of the federal Central Valley Project (“CVP”) and State Water Project (“SWP”) are likely to jeopardize the continued existence and adversely affect the critical habitat of certain salmonid and other species (“2009 Salmonid BiOp”), as well as the implementation of the terms of that…