Washington, D.C. >> The board with the responsibility for relicensing Oroville Dam finally has a quorum again.

The five-member Federal Energy Regulatory Commission was down to a single member after two resignations earlier this year, but the Senate Thursday confirmed two of President Donald Trump’ nominees: Neil Chatterjee and Robert Powelson.

Chatterjee is an aide to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky, and Powelson is a Pennsylvania utilities regulator.

Trump has also nominated Richard Glick and Kevin McIntyre to fill out the board. Hearings are planned on those nominations in September.

FERC was expected to grant a new license to operate the dam to the Department of Water Resources early this year, after a final environmental report was completed.

But the board already had two vacancies, and the resignation of Norman Bay after Trump replaced him as chairman left the board at two, not enough to make a decision.

Then commissioner Colette Honorable quit in June, leaving the board at one: Cheryl LaFleur.

Since the Oroville Dam spillway emergency in February, two requests have been made locally for FERC to delay a decision on the dam license until the independent report on what went wrong is completed and released. That’s expected in September.

A coalition of 15 local governments and groups signed on to one letter seeking the delay, while congressmen Doug LaMalfa, R-Richvale, and John Garamendi, D-Walnut Grove, filed the other.