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Concerns over a bird that ranges across the American West continue to delay federal oil and gas lease sales five months after officials said they'd found a way to balance drilling and conservation.

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(AP) - Gov. Brian Sandoval says the U.S. Interior Department has agreed to defer to new, higher quality maps of sage grouse habitat in Nevada that correct glaring inaccuracies in earlier maps that showed the birds living near urban areas in Reno and Sparks.

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Government investigators squarely blame the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for a 3 million gallon wastewater spill from a Colorado gold mine, saying a cleanup crew rushed its work and failed to consider the complex engineering involved, triggering the very blowout it hoped to avoid.