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To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: On December 11, 2019, the California Supreme Court granted review of the Third District’s decision in County of Butte v. Department of Water Resources, dismissing a CEQA challenge to DWR’s relicensing application to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) for the Oroville Dam on the basis that the claim was preempted by federal law. The Court of Appeal held the Federal Power Act (FPA) exclusively occupies the field of dam licensing and preempts state regulation, and accordingly found that it had no jurisdiction to consider the case. The Court of Appeal’s decision came on the heels of a lengthy and complicated procedural history. In an earlier opinion, the Court of Appeal had found that its authority to review the EIR was preempted by the FPA, but the California Supreme Court granted review of the case and sent it back to the Third District with directions to reconsider the case in light of

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