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6000PIC
One must mention previous US government FAA budget funding shortcomings going back decades which prevented regulatory oversight as a contributory and causal factor in this whole debacle. The whole process of self certification by the manufacturers themselves, of aircraft construction and design must never be allowed again. In short , the FAA , and the US government are themselves accountable.
Section 212 of the FAA Reauthorization Act of 2018 requires complete delegation to ODAs as a default as lobbied for by Boeing. No changes to that law have been made.