Responding to the 2017 Oroville Dam incident, FERC proposed tougher safety standards for commission-regulated hydropower projects.

Local officials filed a scathing lawsuit alleging corruption at the state’s main water agency and lawmakers called for FERC to delay the Oroville Dam’s relicensing.

A “long-term systemic failure” of regulatory and industry practices caused the Oroville Dam crisis, an independent forensics team said in a new report requested by FERC.

Butte County urged FERC to order the California Department of Water Resources to establish its own public safety program to help manage the Oroville Dam.