David E. Lindgren

Experience

Developed concept for and negotiated complex groundwater banking and water supply agreements to restructure and extend the water supply of a multi-state, multi-utility electric generating station.

Successfully challenged (on behalf of publicly-owned electric utility) Interior Department environmental releases of water from Trinity Reservoir (E.D. Cal. 2003, on appeal); defended (on behalf of wholesale water agency for southern Nevada) environmentalist challenge to Interior Department Colorado River operations (D. Arizona, 9th Cir. 1998).

Devised contract, regulatory, and environmental strategies for development and transport of groundwater for use on distant agricultural lands.

Negotiated multi-party agreements among municipal purveyors, real estate d eveloper, and water wholesaler to provide water supply for a major regional industrial, commercial, and residential development.

Successfully led defense of litigation over claimed damages from elevated groundwater table (argued case before California Co urt of Appeal).

Negotiated innovative agreements to govern multi-agency water authority and to guide development of multi-billion dollar expansion of wholesale water system.

Negotiated first, precedent-setting U.S. Bureau of Reclamation long-term renew al water supply contract.

Former Regional Solicitor (Pacific Southwest Region) for the Department of the Interior, Sacramento, California.

Former Special Counsel to the Under Secretary of the Department of the Interior, Washington, D.C.

Former Assistant General Counsel to the American Petroleum Institute, Washington, D.C.

Former Deputy Solicitor and Associate Solicitor of Public Lands for the Department of The Interior, Washington, D.C.

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