IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF FEDERAL CLAIMS

KLAMATH IRRIGATION DISTRICT, an Oregon              )

irrigation district; TULELAKE IRRIGATION DISTRICT,        )

a California irrigation district; KLAMATH DRAINAGE         )

DISTRICT, an Oregon drainage district, POE VALLEY    )

IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT, an Oregon improvement        )

district; SUNNYSIDE IRRIGATION DISTRICT, an               )

Oregon irrigation district; KLAMATH BASIN                   )

IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT, an Oregon improvement        )

district; KLAMATH HILLS DISTRICT                                   )

IMPROVEMENT CO., an Oregon corporation for use         )

or control of water; MIDLAND DISTRICT                             )

IMPROVEMENT CO., an Oregon corporation for use         )

or control of water; MALIN IRRIGATION DISTRICT,          )

an Oregon irrigation district; ENTERPRISE IRRIGATION    )           No._______________

 DISTRICT, an Oregon irrigation district; PINE                     )

GROVE IRRIGATION DISTRICT, an Oregon irrigation      )           Judge ____________

district, WESTSIDE IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT NO. 4,     )

a California improvement district, SHASTA VIEW                )

IRRIGATION  DISTRICT, an Oregon irrigation district,       )

VAN BRIMMER DITCH CO., an Oregon corporation        )

for use  or control of water, FRED A. ROBISON,                   )

ALBERT J. ROBISON, LONNY E. BALEY, MARK R.        )

TROTMAN, BALEY TROTMAN FARMS, a partnership,     )

JAMES L. MOORE, CHERYL L. MOORE, DANIEL           )

G. CHIN, DELORIS D. CHIN, WONG POTATOES,           )

INC., an Oregon corporation, MICHAEL J. BYRNE,          )

DANIEL W. BYRNE, and BYRNE BROTHERS, a                )

partnership,                                                                              )

                                                                                                )

                                                Plaintiffs,                                   )          

                                                                                                )

vs.                                                        )          

                                                                                                )

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ,                                     )

                                                                                                )

                                                Defendant.                                )

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MOTION OF PLAINTIFFS KLAMATH IRRIGATION DISTRICT ET AL.

TO CERTIFY INDIVIDUAL WATERS USERS AS A CLASS

           Pursuant to Rule 23 of the Rules of this Court, plaintiffs hereby move this Court to enter an Order certifying as a class all landowners who possess appurtenant water rights in the Klamath Basin and who receive their irrigation water from the Upper Klamath lake through the Link River Dam.

The joinder of these landowners as plaintiffs is impracticable due to the size of the class, which number in the thousands, and the disposition of their claims in this action rather than in individual actions will foster judicial economy.  The pursuit of separate actions is also unlikely due to the small amount of many of the claims of the individual landowners.  Each claim in this action, and of the landowners in the putative class, has a common basis with every other claim in the action, namely the taking of appurtenant water rights by defendant’s impoundment and diversion of plaintiffs water in Upper Klamath Lake (see declarations of individual water users and irrigation districts attached hereto).

            As further explained in the attached Memorandum in Support, since each of the individual water users claim a taking of the same right by the same governmental actions, class certification is appropriate and necessary for resolution of these numerous, but identical, claims.

                                                                        Respectfully submitted,

                                                                                ________________________                              Roger J. Marzulla

                                                                       Nancie G. Marzulla

                                                                        MARZULLA & MARZULLA

                                                                        1350 Connecticut Ave., N.W.

                                                                        Suite 410

                                                                        Washington , D.C.   20036

                                                                        (202) 822-6760

Counsel for Plaintiffs                                                    

Dated:  October 11, 2001