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[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4606 Reported in House (RH)]

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                                                 Union Calendar No. 651
115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4606

                          [Report No. 115-842]

    To provide that applications under the Natural Gas Act for the 
  importation or exportation of small volumes of natural gas shall be 
                 granted without modification or delay.

_______________________________________________________________________

                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           December 11, 2017

 Mr. Johnson of Ohio (for himself, Mr. Latta, Mr. Cramer, Mr. Flores, 
 and Mr. Cuellar) introduced the following bill; which was referred to 
                  the Committee on Energy and Commerce

                             July 18, 2018

Additional sponsors: Mr. Duncan of South Carolina and Mr. Gene Green of 
                                 Texas

                             July 18, 2018

  Reported with an amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole 
       House on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed
 [Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed 
                               in italic]
    [For text of introduced bill, see copy of bill as introduced on 
                           December 11, 2017]

_______________________________________________________________________

                                 A BILL

 
    To provide that applications under the Natural Gas Act for the 
  importation or exportation of small volumes of natural gas shall be 
                 granted without modification or delay.

 

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Ensuring Small Scale LNG Certainty 
and Access Act''.

SEC. 2. SMALL SCALE EXPORTATION OR IMPORTATION OF NATURAL GAS.

    Section 3(c) of the Natural Gas Act (15 U.S.C. 717b(c)) is 
amended--
            (1) by striking ``For purposes'' and inserting ``(1) For 
        purposes''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following:
    ``(2) For purposes of subsection (a), and in addition to any 
importation or exportation of natural gas described in paragraph (1), 
importation or exportation of natural gas shall be deemed to be 
consistent with the public interest, and an application for such 
importation or exportation shall be granted without modification or 
delay, if--
            ``(A) the application for such importation or exportation 
        proposes to import or export a volume of natural gas that does 
        not exceed 0.14 billion cubic feet per day; and
            ``(B) the Commission's approval of such application does 
        not require an environmental impact statement or an 
        environmental assessment under the National Environmental 
        Policy Act of 1969.''.
                                                 Union Calendar No. 651

115th CONGRESS

  2d Session

                               H. R. 4606

                          [Report No. 115-842]

_______________________________________________________________________

                                 A BILL

    To provide that applications under the Natural Gas Act for the 
  importation or exportation of small volumes of natural gas shall be 
                 granted without modification or delay.

_______________________________________________________________________

                             July 18, 2018

  Reported with an amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole 
       House on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed
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