115 HR 4606 RH: Ensuring Small Scale LNG Certainty and Access Act U.S. House of Representatives 2017-12-11 text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.

IB Union Calendar No. 651 115th CONGRESS2d Session H. R. 4606 [Report No. 115–842] 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, 2018Additional 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.

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Short title

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

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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..

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