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'use client';
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import {
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Layout, Section, Article, Masthead, Rule,
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Headline, Subhead, Kicker, BodyText, Byline, Dateline,
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Figure, PullQuote,
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} from '@newspaperui/components';
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export default function FrontPage() {
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return (
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<Layout columns={24} maxWidth="1200px" padding="2rem 1.5rem">
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<Masthead
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variant="classic"
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kicker="Late City Edition"
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title="The Daily Chronicle"
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edition="Vol. CXLIX · No. 51,895"
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date="Tuesday, May 19, 2026"
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price="$4.00"
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/>
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<Section columns={24} divider="bottom" gap="2rem" style={{ marginTop: '2rem' }}>
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<Article span={5} style={{ borderRight: '1px solid var(--nui-rule-hairline)', paddingRight: '1.5rem' }}>
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<Kicker>Inside Today</Kicker>
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<Headline weight="Low" as="h3" style={{ marginTop: 0 }}>
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Senate Approves Climate Resolution After Months of Debate
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</Headline>
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<BodyText weight="Low">
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<p>The unanimous vote concludes a contentious legislative session marked by partisan disputes
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and last-minute amendments. Page A6.</p>
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</BodyText>
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<Rule variant="hairline" style={{ margin: '1rem 0' }} />
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<Headline weight="Low" as="h3">Tech Sector Gains as Inflation Eases</Headline>
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<BodyText weight="Low">
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<p>Major indices climbed for a fifth consecutive session as new data showed price growth
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slowing across consumer goods. Business B1.</p>
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</BodyText>
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<Rule variant="hairline" style={{ margin: '1rem 0' }} />
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<Headline weight="Low" as="h3">Drought Conditions Worsen Across the Plains</Headline>
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<BodyText weight="Low">
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<p>Officials in seven states have requested federal disaster relief as reservoir levels reach
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historic lows. National A12.</p>
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</BodyText>
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<Rule variant="hairline" style={{ margin: '1rem 0' }} />
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<Headline weight="Low" as="h3">New Exhibit Opens at the Metropolitan</Headline>
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<BodyText weight="Low">
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<p>A retrospective of mid-century textile design draws record opening crowds. Arts C3.</p>
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</BodyText>
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</Article>
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<Article span={14}>
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<div style={{ textAlign: 'center' }}><Kicker>Capitol · Breaking</Kicker></div>
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<Headline weight="High" align="center">
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Historic Accord Reshapes Continental Trade After Marathon Session
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</Headline>
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<Subhead weight="High" style={{ textAlign: 'center', marginTop: 0 }}>
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Negotiators emerge with sweeping framework on tariffs, labor, and emissions; ratification expected within weeks
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</Subhead>
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<div style={{ display: 'flex', justifyContent: 'center', gap: '1rem', margin: '0.5rem 0 1rem', alignItems: 'baseline' }}>
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<Byline>By Eleanor Whitcombe and Marcus Reyes</Byline>
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<span style={{ color: 'var(--nui-text-muted)' }}>·</span>
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<span style={{ fontFamily: 'var(--font-family-meta)', fontSize: '12px', color: 'var(--nui-text-muted)' }}>5 min read</span>
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</div>
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<Figure
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src="https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1572949645841-094f3a9c4c94?auto=format&fit=crop&w=1200&q=80"
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alt="Diplomats applaud after the final draft was approved"
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caption="Negotiators applaud after the final draft was approved Monday evening at the Continental Conference Center."
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credit="Photograph by Jane Doe / Pool"
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/>
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<BodyText weight="High" columns={3} dropCap style={{ marginTop: '1.5rem' }}>
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<p><Dateline>Brussels —</Dateline> After eleven consecutive days of negotiation that several
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participants described as the most demanding in a generation, delegates from twenty-three nations
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announced on Monday a sweeping framework to reorganize commerce across the continent. The accord,
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which still requires ratification by member parliaments, would harmonize tariff schedules, set
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common labor standards, and bind signatories to a shared emissions pathway through 2040.</p>
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<p>Officials briefed on the talks said the breakthrough came shortly before midnight, when a
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dispute over agricultural subsidies was resolved with a side letter granting transitional relief
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to producers in five smaller economies. The chief negotiator, Margarethe Lindqvist, called the
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outcome “a long argument that finally became a conversation.”</p>
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<p>The framework’s most consequential provisions target heavy industry. Cement, steel, and
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chemical producers would face a graduated carbon levy beginning in 2028, with revenues recycled
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into a continental investment fund for low-carbon manufacturing. Industry associations expressed
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cautious support, while environmental groups praised the levy’s binding architecture but warned
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that the timeline gives polluters too much room to delay.</p>
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<p>Markets reacted with measured optimism. The continental composite index closed up 1.2 percent,
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led by capital-goods makers expected to benefit from infrastructure investment. The currency
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strengthened against the dollar by 0.7 percent. Bond yields, which had climbed throughout the
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negotiations on fiscal-stability concerns, retreated to levels seen before the talks began.</p>
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<p>Domestic political reaction was mixed. The accord’s labor provisions, which establish minimum
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standards for paid leave and collective bargaining, drew immediate praise from union federations
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and equally immediate concern from chambers of commerce. The chairman of the Federation of
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Industries warned that small firms would struggle with compliance costs absent transitional support.</p>
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<p>Parliamentary leaders in three capitals signaled that ratification could occur before the
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summer recess. Two governments, however, indicated that they would seek public referenda before
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committing, a process likely to extend into the autumn. Analysts at the Centre for Trade Studies
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estimated that full implementation, even on the most expedited timeline, would require at least
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eighteen months.</p>
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<p>For ordinary travelers and consumers, the immediate effects will be modest. Border procedures
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and product standards remain governed by existing arrangements pending ratification. The longer
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arc is what matters: a continent of historically fractious neighbors agreeing on a single set of
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rules for the most consequential decade in living memory.</p>
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</BodyText>
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<PullQuote weight="High" author="Margarethe Lindqvist, Chief Negotiator" align="center" style={{ margin: '2rem 0' }}>
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A long argument that finally became a conversation.
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</PullQuote>
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<BodyText weight="High" columns={2} style={{ marginTop: '1rem' }}>
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<p>The accord’s signing ceremony, originally scheduled for last Friday, was delayed three times
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as drafters reconciled competing texts on dispute resolution. The final compromise establishes
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an arbitration panel of nine jurists, three appointed by each of the bloc’s three regional
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groupings, with binding authority over commercial disputes exceeding twenty million units.</p>
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<p>Critics on the populist right denounced the framework as an erosion of national sovereignty,
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while critics on the left argued that the labor floor was set too low to meaningfully protect
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workers in tighter regulatory regimes. Both camps signaled that ratification battles would be
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fierce, particularly in legislatures with narrow majorities.</p>
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</BodyText>
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</Article>
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<Article span={5} style={{ borderLeft: '1px solid var(--nui-rule-hairline)', paddingLeft: '1.5rem' }}>
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<Kicker>Foreign Desk</Kicker>
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<Headline weight="Medium" as="h2">
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Coastal Nations Pledge Joint Action on Maritime Pollution
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</Headline>
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<Subhead weight="Medium">
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Pact follows years of stalled regional talks and a cascade of recent shipping accidents.
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</Subhead>
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<Byline>By Tomás Almeida</Byline>
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<BodyText weight="Medium" style={{ marginTop: '0.75rem' }}>
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<p><Dateline>Lisbon —</Dateline> Eleven coastal nations announced a binding compact to coordinate
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cleanup operations and harmonize liability rules for vessels exceeding fifty thousand tons. The
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agreement establishes a shared rapid-response fund and creates a regional inspectorate empowered
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to detain non-compliant ships in any signatory port.</p>
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<p>Maritime industry groups received the news with caution. A spokesperson for the Continental
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Shipping Council acknowledged that “stronger common rules are overdue” but warned that
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implementation costs could fall disproportionately on smaller operators.</p>
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<p>The compact takes effect on January 1, pending technical annexes. Environmental observers
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described the pact as the most consequential maritime accord in a decade.</p>
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</BodyText>
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</Article>
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</Section>
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<Section columns={24} divider="top" gap="2rem" style={{ marginTop: '2rem', paddingTop: '2rem' }}>
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<Article span={24}>
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<Kicker>National · Investigation</Kicker>
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<Headline weight="Medium" as="h2">
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Records Reveal Years of Overlooked Warnings at Aging Reservoirs
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</Headline>
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<Subhead weight="Medium">
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Internal inspection memoranda, obtained through public records requests, suggest that
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structural concerns flagged repeatedly by field engineers were not escalated to senior staff.
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</Subhead>
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<Byline style={{ marginBottom: '1rem' }}>By Ravi Nair, Anita Kowalski, and Charles Weston</Byline>
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<BodyText weight="High" columns={4}>
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<p><Dateline>Sacramento —</Dateline> A six-month review of more than four thousand pages of
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inspection records, interviews with twenty-three current and former engineers, and reconstructions
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of three near-failure incidents reveals a pattern of unheeded warnings about the structural
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integrity of mid-twentieth-century earthen dams across the western states.</p>
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<p>The records show that field engineers documented concerns about seepage, erosion, and spillway
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capacity in repeated annual assessments dating back at least fifteen years. In several instances,
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those concerns were rated “moderate” in the field reports but downgraded to “low” by the time they
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reached senior officials. The pattern was particularly pronounced at three facilities serving
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regions of more than two million residents.</p>
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<p>Officials at the Department of Water Resources, asked to review excerpts of the records, said
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in a written statement that “every reservoir under our oversight has been deemed safe for current
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operations” but did not specifically address the discrepancies between field and final ratings.
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The agency declined to make senior staff available for interviews.</p>
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<p>The findings come amid renewed scrutiny of aging infrastructure following the partial collapse
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of an earthen embankment in March that displaced more than fifteen hundred residents. Federal
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inspectors who responded to that incident found the proximate cause to be precisely the type of
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seepage concern that field engineers had flagged in three of the past four annual assessments.</p>
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<p>The investigative review found that of forty-seven reservoirs surveyed, sixteen had at least
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one instance in which a “moderate” or “high” field rating was downgraded before reaching senior
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management. In nine cases, the downgrades persisted for three or more consecutive years. None of
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the affected facilities have publicly disclosed the discrepancies.</p>
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<p>Engineering professional associations have, in recent years, called for an independent review
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of inspection workflows in the western states. A spokesperson for the Society of Hydraulic
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Engineers said the Society was “deeply concerned” by the patterns described and would convene a
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working group to examine reform options.</p>
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</BodyText>
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</Article>
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</Section>
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