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114TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 6454 
To require a certain percentage of LNG and crude oil exports be transported 
on United States-built and United States-flag vessels, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
DECEMBER 7, 2016 
Mr. GARAMENDI introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Com-
mittee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on 
Foreign Affairs, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speak-
er, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the ju-
risdiction of the committee concerned 
A BILL 
To require a certain percentage of LNG and crude oil exports 
be transported on United States-built and United States- 
flag vessels, and for other purposes. 
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 ‘‘Energizing American 
Shipbuilding and Maritime Act’’. 
SEC. 2. NATIONAL POLICY ON STRATEGIC ENERGY ASSET 
EXPORT TRANSPORTATION. 
(a) LNG EXPORTS.— 
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(1) FINDINGS.—Congress finds the following: 
(A) LNG is an explosive gas that can be 
hazardous to national import and export termi-
nals and ports when mishandled. 
(B) LNG is a strategic national asset, the 
export of which will be used to preserve the 
United States tanker fleet and skilled mariner 
workforce that are essential to national secu-
rity. 
(C) For the safety and security of the 
United States, LNG should be exported on ves-
sels documented under the laws of the United 
States. 
(2) REQUIREMENT.—Section 3 of the Natural 
Gas Act (15 U.S.C. 717b) is amended by adding at 
the end the following: 
‘‘(g) TRANSPORTATION OF EXPORTS OF LNG ON 
VESSELS BUILT IN THE UNITED STATES AND DOCU-
MENTED UNDER LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES.—As a 
condition for approval of any authorization to export 
LNG, the Secretary of Energy shall require the applicant 
to transport the authorized exports on vessels built in the 
United States and documented under the laws of the 
United States, as follows: 
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‘‘(1) Fifteen percent of the LNG authorized to 
be exported in each of 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, and 
2024. 
‘‘(2) Thirty percent of the LNG authorized to 
be exported in 2025 and each year thereafter.’’. 
(3) OPPORTUNITIES FOR LICENSED AND UNLI-
CENSED MARINERS.—Each Federal official respon-
sible for the issuance of a permit authorizing the ex-
port of LNG shall require, as a condition and term 
of the permit, that the permittee shall provide oppor-
tunities for United States licensed and unlicensed 
mariners to receive experience and training nec-
essary for them to become credentialed in working 
on an LNG vessel. 
(b) CRUDE OIL.—Section 101 of title I of division 
O of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2016 (42 
U.S.C. 6212a) is amended— 
(1) in subsection (b), by striking ‘‘subsections 
(c) and (d)’’ and inserting ‘‘subsections (c), (d), and 
(e)’’; 
(2) by redesignating subsection (e) as sub-
section (f); and 
(3) by inserting after subsection (d) the fol-
lowing: 
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‘‘(e) TRANSPORTATION OF EXPORTS OF CRUDE OIL 
ON VESSELS BUILT IN THE UNITED STATES AND DOCU-
MENTED UNDER LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES.—As a 
condition to export crude oil, the President shall require 
an applicant to transport the exports on vessels built in 
the United States and documented under the laws of the 
United States, as follows: 
‘‘(1) Fifteen percent of the crude oil to be ex-
ported in each of 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, and 
2024. 
‘‘(2) Thirty percent of the crude oil to be ex-
ported in 2025 and each year thereafter.’’. 
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