Ellis et al v. Bradbury et al

Filing 158

ORDER APPROVING STIPULATION REGARDING THE ADMINISTRATIVE RECORD. Signed by Judge Maxine M. Chesney on October 20, 2014. (mmclc1, COURT STAFF) (Filed on 10/20/2014)

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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 SAM HIRSCH Acting Assistant Attorney General Environment & Natural Resources Division United States Department of Justice LESLIE M. HILL (D.C. Bar No. 476008) Leslie.Hill@usdoj.gov Environmental Defense Section 601 D Street N.W., Suite 8000 Washington D.C. 20004 Telephone (202) 514-0375 Facsimile (202) 514-8865 JOHN H. MARTIN (CO Bar No. 32667) John.H.Martin@usdoj.gov Wildlife & Marine Resources Section 999 18th Street, South Terrace, Suite 370 Denver, CO 80202 Telephone (303) 844-1383 11 12 13 Attorneys for Federal Defendants [Counsel for Plaintiffs and Defendant-Intervenors listed in signature block] 14 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO DIVISION 15 16 17 STEVE ELLIS, et al. 18 Plaintiffs, Case No. 3:13-cv-1266-MMC 19 v. 20 STIPULATION REGARDING THE ADMINISTRATIVE RECORD JACK HOUSENGER, et al. 21 Defendants, 22 AND ORDER THEREON and 23 24 BAYER CROPSCIENCE LP, et al. 25 Defendant-Intervenors. 26 27 28 1 CASE NO. 3:13-cv-1266-MMC STIPULATION REGARDING THE ADMINISTRATIVE RECORD 1 WHEREAS, Federal Defendants Jack Housenger, in his official capacity as 2 Director of the Office of Pesticide Programs, and Gina McCarthy, in her official capacity 3 as Administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency (collectively, 4 “EPA”), are required to lodge the Administrative Record in this case (Dkt. No. 144); 5 WHEREAS, in preparing the Administrative Record, EPA has identified several 6 voluminous categories of documents that it believes will not bear upon the claims 7 presented in the Second Amended Complaint (Dkt. No. 126) for which it believes 8 production of the documents is burdensome on the agency; 9 WHEREAS, the parties have agreed that instead of including copies of these 10 documents in the Administrative Record, EPA will instead identify the documents 11 excluded from the Record in the indices pursuant to this stipulation, subject to the 12 conditions below, and any party may request in writing that EPA include in the 13 Administrative Record a document listed in the indices; 14 WHEREAS, the parties have agreed to enter into a protective order providing for 15 disclosure of Administrative Record documents under seal to facilitate record review and 16 production, since the records may contain confidential business information and 17 information that is subject to the release restrictions of Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, 18 and Rodenticide Act Section 10(g); and 19 20 THEREFORE, the parties hereby stipulate and agree to limit the production of documents in the Administrative Record as follows: 21 22 1. EPA will not include copies of the following categories of documents in the Administrative Record served on the parties or lodged with the Court: 23 a. Registrant data and EPA reviews of such data, except for (1) registrant 24 data and EPA reviews of such data that relate to the risks to ESA-listed species or their 25 designated critical habitats for product registrations at issue in Claims 5-6 (Dkt. No. 126); 26 and (2) registrant data and EPA reviews of such data that relate to the risks to pollinators 27 and/or honey bees for all product registrations at issue in claims 1-2 (Dkt. No. 126). 28 2 CASE NO. 3:13-cv-1266-MMC STIPULATION REGARDING THE ADMINISTRATIVE RECORD 1 b. Product chemistry data, EPA reviews of such data, and any 2 correspondence regarding such data, including but not limited to, physical chemistry data 3 such as (boiling point, viscosity, pH, odor, etc.) required pursuant to 40 C.F.R. § 158.300. 4 c. Acute toxicology data typically used to establish human hazard 5 warnings on product labeling, EPA reviews of such data, and any correspondence 6 regarding such data required pursuant to 40 C.F.R. § 158.500. 7 d. All other data and EPA reviews submitted to assess effects to human 8 health as required by 40 C.F.R. §§ 158.500, .510, .1000, .1070, .1410, including, but not 9 limited to, developmental toxicity and reproduction, mutagenicity, and human exposure, 10 and all data and EPA reviews submitted to assess effects to plants as required by 40 11 C.F.R. § 158.660 (phytotoxicity studies). 12 e. All data and EPA reviews submitted for any of the 71 challenged 13 actions (Dkt. No. 126) that specifically addresses active ingredients in these products 14 other than clothianidin or thiamethoxam. 15 f. Data compensation forms used to demonstrate compliance with data 16 protection requirements of section 3(c)(1)(F) of FIFRA, 7 U.S.C. § 136a(c)(1)(F), 17 including, but not limited to, certification with respect to data citation form, data matrices 18 and formulator exemption statement and any correspondence regarding those materials. 19 g. Confidential statements of formula and any correspondence regarding 20 the confidential statement of formula. 21 22 h. Application completeness checklists completed by EPA contractors to ensure that applications contain all required elements. 23 2. For each category of documents excluded above, EPA shall identify the 24 excluded documents in the certified indices by title and, if available, date. Any party may 25 request in writing that EPA include any listed document in the Administrative Record. 26 EPA shall supplement the Administrative Record with the requested document within 30 27 days of receiving such a request. 28 3 CASE NO. 3:13-cv-1266-MMC STIPULATION REGARDING THE ADMINISTRATIVE RECORD 1 3. The parties shall confer on and enter into a protective order governing 2 production and use of confidential business information and information subject to the 3 release restrictions of Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act section 10(g) 4 in the course of this action other than in court proceedings. 5 6 Respectfully submitted, 7 Date: October 16, 2014 8 By: /s/ Sylvia Wu e-mail authorization 10/16/14 PAIGE M. TOMASELLI (State Bar #237737) SYLVIA SHIH-YAU WU (State Bar #273549) GEORGE A. KIMBRELL (Pro Hac Vice) PETER T. JENKINS (Pro Hac Vice) Center for Food Safety 303 Sacramento Street, 2nd Floor San Francisco, CA 94111 T: 415-826-2770 / F: 415-826-0507 Email: ptomaselli@centerforfoodsafety.org swu@centerforfoodsafety.org gkimbrell@centerforfoodsafety.org pjenkins@centerforfoodsafety.org 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Attorneys for Plaintiffs 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 4 CASE NO. 3:13-cv-1266-MMC STIPULATION REGARDING THE ADMINISTRATIVE RECORD 1 SAM HIRSCH Acting Assistant Attorney General Environment and Natural Resources Division 2 3 /s/ Leslie M. Hill JOHN H. MARTIN (CO Bar No. 32667) U.S. Department of Justice Environment & Natural Resources Division Wildlife & Marine Resources Section 999 18th Street, South Terrace, Suite 370 Denver, CO 80202 Telephone (303) 844-1383 john.h.martin@usdoj.gov 4 5 6 7 8 9 LESLIE M. HILL (D.C. Bar No. 476008) U.S. Department of Justice Environment & Natural Resources Division Environmental Defense Section 601 D Street N.W., Suite 8000 Washington D.C. 20004 Leslie.Hill@usdoj.gov Telephone (202) 514-0375 Facsimile (202) 514 8865 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 5 CASE NO. 3:13-cv-1266-MMC STIPULATION REGARDING THE ADMINISTRATIVE RECORD 1 Attorneys for Federal Defendants 2 By: /s/ Kirsten L. Nathanson e-mail authorization 10/17/14 BEVERIDGE & DIAMOND, P.C. Kathryn E. Szmuszkovicz (Pro Hac Vice) Anthony L. Michaels (Pro Hac Vice) 1350 I Street, N.W., Suite 700 Washington, D.C. 20005-3311 T: (202) 789-6000 / F: (202) 789-6190 Email: kes@bdlaw.com alm@bdlaw.com 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 BEVERIDGE & DIAMOND, P.C. Gary J. Smith (SBN 141393) 456 Montgomery Street, Suite 1800 San Francisco, CA 94104-1251 T: (415) 262-4000 / F: (415) 262-4040 Email: gsmith@bdlaw.com 10 11 12 13 14 CROWELL & MORING LLP Kirsten L. Nathanson (D.C. Bar No. 463992)* Thomas Lundquist (D.C. Bar No. 968123)* knathanson@crowell.com 1001 Pennsylvania Ave., NW Washington, D.C. 20004-2595 T: 202-624-2500 Fax: 202-628-5116CROWELL & MORING LLP Janine L. Scancarelli (SBN 197202) 275 Battery Street, 23rd Floor San Francisco, CA 94111 T: (415) 986-2800 / F: (415) 986-2827 Email: jscancarelli@crowell.com 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 Attorneys for Defendant-Intervenors Bayer CropScience LP, Syngenta Crop Protection, LLC, and Valent U.S.A. Corporation 23 24 25 26 27 28 6 CASE NO. 3:13-cv-1266-MMC STIPULATION REGARDING THE ADMINISTRATIVE RECORD 1 By: /s/ Stacey VanBelleghem e-mail authorization 10/16/14 LATHAM & WATKINS LLP CLAUDIA M. O’BRIEN (D.C. Bar No. 447354)(pro hac vice) WILLIAM K. RAWSON (D.C. Bar No. 367167)(pro hac vice) STACEY L. VANBELLEGHEM (D.C. Bar No. 988144)(pro hac vice) 555 Eleventh Street, N.W., Suite 1000 Washington, D.C. 20004-1304 Telephone: (202) 637-2200 Fax: (202) 637-2201 Email: claudia.o’brien@lw.com william.rawson@lw.com stacey.vanbelleghem@lw.com 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 ANDREA M. HOGAN (Ca. Bar No. 238209) LATHAM & WATKINS LLP 505 Montgomery Street, Suite 2000 San Francisco, CA 94111-6538 Telephone: (415) 391-0600 Fax: (415) 395-8095 Email: andrea.hogan@lw.com 13 14 15 16 17 Attorneys for Intervenor-Defendant CropLife America 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 7 CASE NO. 3:13-cv-1266-MMC STIPULATION REGARDING THE ADMINISTRATIVE RECORD 1 [PROPOSED] ORDER 2 Before the Court is the parties’ JOINT STIPULATION REGARDING THE 3 ADMINISTRATIVE RECORD. Upon due consideration, and for good cause shown, it 4 is hereby ordered that the Administrative Record be limited as described in the 5 Stipulation. 6 IT IS SO ORDERED. 7 20th DATED this ______ day of October, 2014. 8 9 ________________________________ MAXINE M. CHESNEY United States District Judge 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 8 CASE NO. 3:13-cv-1266-MMC STIPULATION REGARDING THE ADMINISTRATIVE RECORD

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