Title: American Gas for Allies Act
Policy area: Energy

Summary:
American Gas for Allies Act
This bill deems the exportation of liquefied natural gas (LNG) for allied countries to be consistent with the public interest for purposes of the National Gas Act during the next three years. Thus, the bill allows such exports to be expedited during that time period. In order to be expedited, the LNG export must be for (1) a member country of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, or (2) any other foreign country if the Department of State determines that the export of LNG to that country would promote the national security interests of the United States.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6977 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6977

To provide that, for a 3-year period, applications for the exportation 
    of natural gas to member countries of the North Atlantic Treaty 
 Organization be granted without modification or delay, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 8, 2022

Mrs. Fletcher introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                    Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
To provide that, for a 3-year period, applications for the exportation 
    of natural gas to member countries of the North Atlantic Treaty 
 Organization be granted without modification or delay, and for other 
                               purposes.

    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 ``American Gas for Allies Act''.

SEC. 2. TEMPORARY TREATMENT OF CERTAIN APPLICATIONS FOR THE EXPORTATION 
              OF NATURAL GAS.

    (a) In General.--During the period described in subsection (c) of 
this section, for purposes of section 3(a) of the Natural Gas Act (15 
U.S.C. 717b(a)), the exportation of natural gas to a foreign country 
described in subsection (b) of this section shall be deemed to be 
consistent with the public interest, and applications for such 
exportation shall be granted without modification or delay.
    (b) Foreign Countries.--A foreign country described in this 
subsection is--
            (1) a member country of the North Atlantic Treaty 
        Organization; or
            (2) any other foreign country, if the Secretary of State, 
        in consultation with the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary 
        of Energy, determines that exportation of natural gas to that 
        foreign country would promote the national security interests 
        of the United States.
    (c) Applicability.--This section shall apply with respect to 
applications for the authorization to export natural gas under section 
3 of the Natural Gas Act (15 U.S.C. 717b) to a foreign country 
described in subsection (b) of this section that are pending on the 
date of enactment of this Act, or filed during the period that begins 
on such date of enactment and ends on the date that is 3 years after 
such date of enactment.
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