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In this Sept. 16, 2015, photo, West Salem police chief Charles Ashbeck flies his department's new drone in West Salem, Wis. More than a year after the U.S. Interior Department grounded hundreds of Chinese-made drones it was using to track wildfires and monitor dams and wildlife, the future of drone use by the federal government remains unmapped. The latest complication: Legislation moving through Congress that would block the U.S. government from using drones made in China. (Peter Thomson/La Crosse Tribune via AP) **FILE**

In this Sept. 16, 2015, photo, West Salem police chief Charles Ashbeck flies his department's new drone in West Salem, Wis. More than a year after the U.S. Interior Department grounded hundreds of Chinese-made drones it was using to track wildfires and monitor dams and wildlife, the future of drone use by the federal government remains unmapped. The latest complication: Legislation moving through Congress that would block the U.S. government from using drones made in China. (Peter Thomson/La Crosse Tribune via AP) **FILE**

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