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Notice of Motion to Intervene by the Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation

Tim Weaver
Cockrill & Weaver, P.S.
316 N. Third St.
PO Box 487
Yakima, WA 98907
Phone: (509) 575-1500
Fax: (509) 575-1227

Thomas A. Zeilman
Yakama Nation Office of Legal Counsel
PO Box 151, Fort Rd.
Toppenish, WA 98948
Phone: (509) 865-7268
Fax: (509) 865-4713
e-mail: tzeilman@yakama.com

Attorneys for intervention applicant Yakama Nation

In the Unitead States District Court for the District of Oregon

Robson Bonnichsen, et al.,
Plaintiffs

v.

United States of America, et al.,
Defendants
And
Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakima Nation
Proposed Intervenor

Notice of Motion to Intervene by the Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation

To: Plaintiffs Robson Bonnichsen, C. Loring Brace, George W. Gill, C. Vance Haynes, Jr., Richard L. Jantz, Douglas W. Owsley, Dennis J. Stanford, and D. Gentry Steele, and Counsel for Plaintiffs:

Paul A. Barran
Barran Liebman LLP
520 SW Yamhill Street, Suite 600
Portland, OR 97204-1383

Alan Schneider
1437 SW Columbia St., Suite 200
Portland, OR 97201

TO: Defendants United States of America, Department of the Army, U. S. Army Corps of Engineers, U. S. Department of the Interior, Bartholomew Bohn II, Donald R. Curtis, and Lee Turner, and Counsel for the Defendants:

Lois J Schiffer
Assistant Attorney General
Allison B. Rumsey
U. S. Department of Justice
Environmental and Natural Resources Division
Office of the Assistant Attorney General
950 Penn. Ave. NW, Room 2740

Kristine Olson
U.S. Attorney
Timothy Simmons
Assistant U. S. Attorney
District of Oregon
1000 SW Third Ave., Ste 600
Portland, OR 97204 - 2902

Please be advised that the Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Natin will move for leave to intervene as a defendant in the above named action to assert the defenses and counterclaim set out in its proposed answer and counterclaim in intervention, a copy of which is attached hereto as Exhibit A.

The grounds for this mortion are set out in a memorandum in support of the motion to intervene, a copy of which is attached hereto in Exhibit B.

The motion will be based on tis notice and on all the pleadings, papers, and records filed in this action.

Dated this 26th day of May, 2000.

(signed)
Tim Weaver, WSBA #3364
Cockrill & Weaver, P.S.
Attorney for intervention applicant
Yakama Nation

Thomas Zeilman WSBA 28470
Yakama Nationa Office of Legal Counsel
Attorney for intervention applicant
Yakama Nation

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