FINAL JUDGMENT

GEORGE H. WU, District Judge.

On June 20, 2019, this matter came before the Court on cross motions for summary judgment filed by Plaintiff National Parks Conservation Association ("NPCA"), Federal Defendants Secretary of the Department of the Interior David Bernhardt et al. (collectively, "Federal Defendants"), and Defendant-Intervenors Cadiz, Inc. et al. (collectively, "Cadiz, Inc."). Pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 56, and after full consideration of the matter, including all memoranda of law, declarations, the revised administrative record as supplemented on March 18, 2019, other documents filed in relation to this matter, and the oral arguments of the Parties, the Court issued a final ruling on June 21, 2019, finding that Federal Defendants' 2017 Determination was (1) contrary to law, and (2) arbitrary and capricious for "fail[ing] to explain its reversal from the 2015 Determination." ECF Docket No. 61, June 21, 2019 Opinion, at 47. The Court found the "2017 Determination therefore violated the Administrative Procedure Act." Id.

Accordingly, the Court ENTERS final judgment: DENYING Defendants' and Defendant Intervenors' motions for summary judgment; GRANTING Plaintiff's motion for summary judgment to the extent that it attacked the 2017 Determination under the APA as unlawful and arbitrary and capricious for failing to explain its reversal from the 2015 Determination; SETTING ASIDE the 2017 Determination; and REMANDING the matter to the Federal Defendants for further action consistent with the Court's Opinion of June 21, 2019.

The Court will retain jurisdiction to resolve any motion by Plaintiff for attorneys' fees and costs.

IT IS SO ORDERED