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A woman walks over the mud and debris at the corner of Sierra Madre Avenue and Highcrest Road along the hillside in Glendora, Calif. on Saturday, March 1, 2014. A burst of heavy showers before dawn Saturday impacted wildfire-scarred mountainsides above foothill suburbs east of Los Angeles, causing another round of mud and debris flows in the city of Glendora. (AP Photo/Ringo H.W. Chiu)

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A man runs through Shoreline Aquatic Park in Long Beach, Calif. on Saturday, March 1, 2014. Earlier, a powerful Pacific storm hit the area, but did not put a major dent in a drought that is among the worst in recent California history. (AP Photo/Ringo H.W. Chiu)

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Trash collects along the shore after after a rainstorm in Long Beach, Calif. on Saturday, March 1, 2014. Evacuation orders remained in effect for hundreds of homes in Los Angeles County foothill communities where fires have burned away vegetation that holds soil in place, and bursts of rain caused the mountains to belch occasional debris flows. (AP Photo/Ringo H.W. Chiu)

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FILE --In this April 15, 2008 file photo, a male sage grouse performs his "strut" near Rawlins, Wyo. Divisions in Nevada’s approach to sage grouse have resurfaced in the state’s fragile attempt to keep the bird off the list of endangered species and avoid economic consequences for ranching, mining and alternative energy development across large swaths of the state.(AP Photo/Rawlins Daily Times, Jerret Raffety, File)

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The headquarters of the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control, or DHEC, in Columbia., S.C. is seen on Thursday, Feb. 27, 2014. The South Carolina Supreme Court will hear arguments on March 6, 2014 over whether the agency can end a program regulating the building or expansion of medical facilities in the state. The agency suspended the Certificate of Need program last year after Gov. Nikki Haley vetoed $1.7 million needed to run the program. (AP Photo/Bruce Smith)

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The headquarters of the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control, or DHEC, in Columbia., S.C. is seen on Thursday, Feb. 27, 2014. The South Carolina Supreme Court will hear arguments on March 6, 2014 over whether the agency can end a program regulating the building or expansion of medical facilities in the state. The agency suspended the Certificate of Need program last year after Gov. Nikki Haley vetoed $1.7 million needed to run the program. (AP Photo/Bruce Smith)