STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] ORDER EXTENDING TIME FOR FEDERAL DEFENDANTS TO ANSWER AMENDED COMPLAINT

LAUREL BEELER, Magistrate Judge.

Plaintiffs SPRAWLDEF and Sierra Club and Federal Defendants Federal Emergency Management Agency and Karen Armes stipulate, subject to Court approval, that the Federal Defendants may have up to and including September 14, 2015, to respond to the amended complaint once it is filed. In accordance with the Court's Text order of August 8, 2015, ECF No. 25, Plaintiffs anticipate filing their amended complaint shortly.

In support of this stipulation, Federal Defendants represent as follows:

1. Counsel for the Federal Defendants will be out of the country from August 11 through August 24. Decl. of David B. Glazer ¶ 2. Federal Defendants' response to the amended complaint will likely be due during that time or very soon after, if the amended complaint is filed shortly. Id.

2. Counsel will not have access to e-mail or to any Department of Justice systems while he is away, making it impossible to work on Federal Defendants' response to the amended complaint during that time, or to perform any other official functions. Glazer Decl. ¶ 3.

3. Federal Defendants have not asked for any other extensions of time in this case, Glazer Decl. ¶ 4, and the requested extension will not affect the litigation schedule proposed in the parties' Joint Case Management Statement, ECF No. 23.

4. Plaintiffs do not oppose Federal Defendants' request that their response to the amended complaint be due on September 14. Glazer Decl. ¶ 5.

Accordingly, the parties stipulate that Federal Defendants may have until September 14, 2015, to respond to the amended complaint

[PROPOSED ORDER]

The foregoing Stipulation is APPROVED, and the Federal Defendants may have up to and including September 14, 2015, to answer the amended complaint.

See Court's Previous Text Order entry authorizing alternative process of the reply or existing answer.