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FILE - In this June 5, 2013, file photo, horses stand behind a fence at the Bureau of Land Management's Palomino Valley holding facility in Palomino Valley, Nev. The head of the government's $70 million wild horse management program warned last summer it is headed for financial collapse unless ``drastic changes'' are made. Lingering drought, a record 49,000 mustangs in long- and short-term holding, and an on-range population that doubles every four years and is projected to exceed 60,000 in 2015, threaten the program's future. (AP Photo/Scott Sonner, File)
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Hydroponically grown tomato plants are photographed inside the greenhouse at Cardinal Farms in Dakota City, Neb. on Friday, Feb. 7, 2014. The greenhouse contains a network of pipes and tubes running nutrient-rich water into pots of tomatoes and cucumbers lined up in neat rows. If you're going to have tomatoes ready to harvest by May 1, you've got to get them growing in January. (AP Photo/The Sioux City Journal, Dawn J. Sagert)
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Hydroponically grown tomato plants are photographed inside the greenhouse at Cardinal Farms in Dakota City, Neb. on Friday, Feb. 7, 2014. The greenhouse contains a network of pipes and tubes running nutrient-rich water into pots of tomatoes and cucumbers lined up in neat rows. If you're going to have tomatoes ready to harvest by May 1, you've got to get them growing in January. (AP Photo/The Sioux City Journal, Dawn J. Sagert)
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Cody Garwood, of Cardinal Farms shows hydroponically grown tomato plants inside the greenhouse at Cardinal Farms in Dakota City, Neb. on Friday, Feb. 7, 2014. The greenhouse contains a network of pipes and tubes running nutrient-rich water into pots of tomatoes and cucumbers lined up in neat rows. If you're going to have tomatoes ready to harvest by May 1, you've got to get them growing in January. (AP Photo/The Sioux City Journal, Dawn J. Sagert)
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Flemington Road community resident Sam Malpass, left, and Kenneth Sandlin of Wilmington, North Carolina, stand outside the well water treatment plant that services their homes on Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2014. The neighbors are part of the small community nearby the L.V. Sutton Complex operated by Duke Energy they feel could be polluting well water with spill off and seepage from large coal ash ponds. (AP Photo/Randall Hill)
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Photo shows the small well water treatment plant that services the neighbors of the Flemington Road community located in Wilmington, N.C.,, on Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2014. The facility is located nearby the L.V. Sutton Complex operated by Duke Energy just outside of Wilmington. Members of the community feel the plant could be polluting well water with spill off and seepage from large coal ash ponds nearby the treatment plant. (AP Photo/Randall Hill)
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Men work at the L.V. Sutton Complex operated by Duke Energy in Wilmington, North Carolina on Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2014. Members of the Flemington Road community near the plant feel the facility could be polluting well water with spill off and seepage from large coal ash ponds. (AP Photo/Randall Hill)
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Fishermen get ready to dock their boat on Sutton Lake near the L.V. Sutton Complex operated by Duke Energy in Wilmington, N.C., on Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2014. Members of the Flemington Road community next to the plant, feel the facility could be polluting well water with spill off and seepage from large coal ash ponds. A recent scientific study shows toxic chemicals leaking from Duke’s coal-ash dumps at Sutton have triggered genetic mutations in fish living in nearby Sutton Lake. (AP Photo/Randall Hill)
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Flemington Road community resident Kenneth Sandlin of Wilmington, N.C., drives by the L.V. Sutton Complex operated by Duke Energy on Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2014. Sandlin is part of the small community that feels nearby Sutton Lake and well water could be polluted from spill off and seepage from large coal ash ponds at the facility. In the wake of Duke Energy’s massive coal ash spill in Eden, people in the Flemington community are paying close attention to the environmental disaster unfolding 200 miles to the northwest along the Dan River. (AP Photo/Randall Hill)
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Cape Fear Riverkeeper Kemp Burdette shows the location of the L.V. Sutton Complex operated by Duke Energy and it's proximity to Sutton Lake and the Cape Fear River at a map located at the lake's landing in Wilmington, N.C., Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2014. In the wake of Duke Energy’s massive coal ash spill in Eden, people in the tight-knit Flemington community are paying close attention to the environmental disaster unfolding 200 miles to the northwest along the Dan River. (AP Photo/Randall Hill)
