Bill Croyle, center, the acting director of the Department of Water Resources, flanked by Resources Secretary John Laird, left, and consultant David Gutierrez, discusses the damaged spillways of the Oroville Dam during a joint Assembly committee hearing Thursday, May 11, 2017, in Sacramento, Calif. Lawmakers cited numerous factors emerging from technical reports done by two independent teams of experts on the Oroville Dam's two spillway's, that contributed to the near collapse of the spillways that caused the evacuation of nearly 200,000 people downstream of the Oroville Dam in February. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)
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