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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] 
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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. 
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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives 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 ex-
portation 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 applica-
tion does not require an environmental impact state-
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ment or an environmental assessment under the Na-
tional Environmental Policy Act of 1969.’’. 
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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 Com-
mittee of the Whole House on the State of the Union, 
and ordered to be printed 
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