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COMPLAINT
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EXTRACTED KEY WORDS
CHINOOK SALMON STREET PROJECT PUGET SOUND SPECIES THREATENED PUGET SOUND BIOLOGICAL OPINION DESIGNATED CRITICAL HABITAT JEOPARDIZE WASHINGTON EVERETT SNOHOMISH RIVER ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT ADVERSE MODIFICATION NMFS SIMPSON SITE PLAINTIFFS PILCHUCK AUDUBON SOCIETY CONTINUED EXISTENCE CONSULTATION LANDFILL SITE LOWELL RIVER ROAD ESA AUDUBON SOCIETY DESTRUCTION LISTED SPECIES ATTORNEYS WESTERN DISTRICT FISHERIES SERVICE UNDULY NARROW |
1 KRISTEN L. BOYLES (WSB #23806)
PATTI A. GOLDMAN (WSB #24426)
2 Earthjustice Legal Defense Fund
705 Second Ave., Suite 203
3 Seattle, WA 98104
(206) 343-7340
4 (206) 343-1526 [FAX]
kboyles@earthjustice.org
5 pgoldman@earthjustice.org
6 Attorneys for Plaintiffs
7 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF WASHINGTON
8 PILCHUCK AUDUBON SOCIETY; and ) Civ. No.
9 PUBLIC EMPLOYEES FOR )
ENVIRONMENTAL RESPONSIBILITY, ) COMPLAINT FOR DECLARATORY
10 ) JUDGMENT AND INJUNCTIVE RELIEF
Plaintiffs, )
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v. )
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NATIONAL MARINE FISHERIES )
13 SERVICE, )
Defendant. )
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15 INTRODUCTION
16 1. This action challenges a biological opinion issued by the National Marine
17 Fisheries Service under Section 7(a)(2) of the Endangered Species Act, 16 U.S.C. § 1536(a)(2),
18 for the 41st Street Overcrossing Freight Mobility Project ("the 41st Street Project") a
19 proposed highway project in Everett, Washington. The biological opinion concludes that the
20 41st Street Project will not jeopardize the continued existence of threatened Puget Sound
21 chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) or result in destruction or adverse modification of
22 the salmon's designated critical habitat. This action challenges the biological opinion because
23 the scope of the biological opinion is unduly narrow; it misses key impacts on threatened Puget
24 Sound salmon; it runs counter to the evidence before the agency and prior determinations made
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