diff --git a/google-cloud-clients/google-cloud-bigtable/pom.xml b/google-cloud-clients/google-cloud-bigtable/pom.xml
index 76256c4a2097..fbfc9d5a67b9 100644
--- a/google-cloud-clients/google-cloud-bigtable/pom.xml
+++ b/google-cloud-clients/google-cloud-bigtable/pom.xml
@@ -18,10 +18,6 @@
     <site.installationModule>google-cloud-bigtable</site.installationModule>
   </properties>
   <dependencies>
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>${project.groupId}</groupId>
-      <artifactId>google-cloud-core</artifactId>
-    </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>${project.groupId}</groupId>
       <artifactId>google-cloud-core-grpc</artifactId>
@@ -34,19 +30,6 @@
       <groupId>com.google.api.grpc</groupId>
       <artifactId>proto-google-cloud-bigtable-admin-v2</artifactId>
     </dependency>
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>io.grpc</groupId>
-      <artifactId>grpc-netty-shaded</artifactId>
-    </dependency>
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>io.grpc</groupId>
-      <artifactId>grpc-stub</artifactId>
-    </dependency>
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>io.grpc</groupId>
-      <artifactId>grpc-auth</artifactId>
-    </dependency>
-
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.google.auto.value</groupId>
       <artifactId>auto-value</artifactId>
@@ -64,11 +47,6 @@
       <artifactId>grpc-google-cloud-bigtable-admin-v2</artifactId>
       <scope>test</scope>
     </dependency>
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>junit</groupId>
-      <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
-      <scope>test</scope>
-    </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.mockito</groupId>
       <artifactId>mockito-all</artifactId>
@@ -207,4 +185,4 @@
       </plugin>
     </plugins>
   </reporting>
-</project>
+</project>
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