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1 <br />u <br />r <br />r <br />I Neil Levine (Colo. Bar #29083) <br />GRAND CANYON TRUST <br />2 2539 Eliot Street <br />Denver, Colorado 80211 <br />3 Phone: 303-455-0604 <br />4 Fax: 303-484-8470 <br />5 Attorneys for Plaintiff <br />6 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT <br />7 FOR THE DISTRICT OF ARIZONA <br />8 GRAND CANYON TRUST, ) <br />Case No. <br />9 Plaintiff, <br />COMPLAINT FOR <br />10 vs. ) DECLARATORY AND <br />11 U.S. BUREAU OF RECLAMATION, and INJUNCTIVE RELIEF <br />) <br />ROBERT W. JOHNSON, Commissioner U.S. <br />12 Bureau of Reclamation, ) <br />13 Defendants. ) <br />14 ) <br />15 INTRODUCTION <br />16 1. Defendants U.S. Bureau of Reclamation and Commissioner Robert <br />17 Johnson (collectively "Reclamation ") are violating the Endangered Species Act (ESA), <br />18 16 U.S.C. § 1531 et seq., in their operation of Glen Canyon Dam. Glen Canyon Dam <br />19 operations involve the release of stored river water through either "steady flows" or <br />20 "fluctuating flows." Neither flow regime impacts water supply in the Colorado River, <br />21 as dictated by the Colorado River Compact, or the amount of water stored in Lake <br />22 Powell. However, fluctuating flows harm endangered fish, destroy their critical habitat, <br />23 and degrade the natural environment in Grand Canyon National Park and Glen Canyon <br />24 Natural Recreation Area. <br />25 2. In 1994, the U.S Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) determined in an ESA <br />26 section 7(a)(2) Biological Opinion on Reclamation's Dam operations that fluctuating <br />27 flows "jeopardize" the continued existence of the humpback chub and "adversely <br />28 modify" chub critical habitat, and that to avoid jeopardy and adverse modification, <br />Complaint 1 <br />Case 3:07 -cv- 08164 -DGC Document 1 Filed 12/07/2007 Page 1 of 20 <br />