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`JEFFREY BOSSERT CLARK
`Acting Assistant Attorney General
`JOHN V. COGHLAN
`Deputy Assistant Attorney General
`ERIC WOMACK
`Assistant Branch Director, Federal Programs Branch
`MICHAEL J. GAFFNEY (D.C. Bar No. 1048531)
`Trial Attorney
`United States Department of Justice
`Civil Division, Federal Programs Branch
`1100 L St. NW
`Washington, DC 20005
`Tel: (202) 514-2356
`Fax: (202) 616-8470
`Email: Michael.J.Gaffney@usdoj.gov
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`Attorneys for Defendants
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`IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
`EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA
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`FRESNO DIVISION
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`Case No. 1:20-CV-01452-DAD-JLT
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`Defendants the United States Department of Agriculture, Secretary Perdue, and Undersecretary
`Northey hereby notify the Court and the parties that today, October 21, 2020, the United States Department
`of Labor transmitted to OIRA the draft final rule titled Labor Certification Process for Temporary
`Agricultural Employment in the United States (H-2A workers). See OIRA, Pending EO 12866 Regulatory
`Review (October 21, 2020), https://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/eoDetails?rrid=131303. As set forth in
`the Defendants’ October 19, 2020 filing with the Court, the Department of Labor “intends to publish and
`have effective before the end of the calendar year” this final rule “to ensure there is no disruption in setting
`the[] AEWRs for calendar year 2021.” ECF 27-1, Declaration of Brian D. Pasternak ¶ 9.
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`UNITED FARM WORKERS, et al.,
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`Respectfully submitted,
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`JEFFREY BOSSERT CLARK
`Acting Assistant Attorney General
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`JOHN V. COGHLAN
`Deputy Assistant Attorney General
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`ERIC WOMACK
`Assistant Branch Director, Federal Programs
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`By:
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`/s/ Michael J. Gaffney
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`MICHAEL J. GAFFNEY (D.C. Bar No. 1048531)
`Trial Attorney
`United States Department of Justice
`Civil Division, Federal Programs Branch
`1100 L St. NW
`Washington, DC 20005
`Tel: (202) 514-2356
`Fax: (202) 616-8470
`Email: Michael.J.Gaffney@usdoj.gov
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