19, 1960, and entered into force June 23, 1960 
(11 UST 1632; TIAS 4509), between the 
United States and Japan, remains in effect. 
‘‘(2) EXPEDITED APPROVAL.—For purposes’’; 
(2) in paragraph (2) (as so designated), by 
striking ‘‘nation with which there is in effect a free 
trade agreement requiring national treatment for 
trade in natural gas’’ and inserting ‘‘covered na-
tion’’; and 
(3) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(3) EFFECT.—Nothing in this subsection— 
‘‘(A) authorizes the use of eminent domain 
to seize land or land rights; or 
‘‘(B) waives any requirement under— 
‘‘(i) the Endangered Species Act of 
1973 (16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.); 
‘‘(ii) the Federal Water Pollution 
Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1251 et seq.); 
‘‘(iii) the National Environmental Pol-
icy Act of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.); 
or 
‘‘(iv) the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 
7401 et seq.).’’. 
(c) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made by 
this section shall apply with respect to applications for the 
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authorization to export natural gas under section 3 of the 
Natural Gas Act (15 U.S.C. 717b) that are pending on, 
or filed on or after, the date of enactment of this Act. 
SEC. 
211. 
STRATEGY 
FOR 
COOPERATION 
ON 
INTER-
MEDIATE-RANGE MISSILE LAUNCHERS AND 
SYSTEMS TO NATO ALLIES. 
(a) FINDINGS.—Congress finds the following: 
(1) All NATO allies agree that the SSC–8/ 
9M729 missile system developed and deployed by the 
Government of Russia violated the Intermediate- 
Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (in this section re-
ferred to as the ‘‘INF Treaty’’), while posing a sig-
nificant risk to NATO security. 
(2) Despite NATO allies’ repeated calls on the 
Government of Russia to return to full and verifiable 
compliance with the INF Treaty, Russia continued 
to develop and deploy INF Treaty-violating systems, 
which led to the INF Treaty’s demise on August 2, 
2019. 
(3) As of the INF Treaty’s demise, Russia had 
produced and deployed multiple battalions of INF 
Treaty-violating missiles, capable of reaching key 
European capitals and targets. 
(b) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—A mutual deployment 
moratorium in the European theater with the Russian 
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Federation is not in the interest of the United States. 
Even if a European-Theater intermediate-range ground- 
launched missile deployment moratorium were verifiable, 
any such moratorium would significantly advantage Rus-
sia and disadvantage NATO. This is due to the Russian 
Federation’s continual threats of aggression against sov-
ereign European nations, the relative ease by which Russia 
could deploy such systems to the theater, and the logistical 
impediments with which the United States and NATO 
would have to contend should it be determined a commen-
surate response was warranted. 
(c) STRATEGY.—Not later than 90 days after the 
date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense 
and the Secretary of State shall jointly develop and submit 
to the appropriate committees of Congress a strategy to 
cooperate with willing NATO member countries in the 
joint research, development, training and possible transfer 
of conventional intermediate-range ground-launched mis-
siles, associated launchers and support equipment, and as-
sociated technology. 
(d) APPROPRIATE COMMITTEES OF CONGRESS DE-
FINED.—In this section, the term ‘‘appropriate commit-
tees of Congress’’ means— 
(1) the Committee on Foreign Relations and 
the Committee on Armed Services of the Senate; and 
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