3.0.0 1242 2023-01-11T13:31:11Z 2023-01-11T13:31:11Z Senate S 2015-05-07 114 sseg00 Energy and Natural Resources Committee Senate Standing Hearings by 2015-05-14T21:20:08Z Referred to 2015-05-07T15:27:12Z 2015-05-14 sseg00 Energy and Natural Resources Committee Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Hearings held. Committee 2015-05-07 sseg00 Energy and Natural Resources Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. IntroReferral 2015-05-07 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress K000383 Sen. King, Angus S., Jr. [I-ME] Angus King I ME S. N Energy Energy storage, supplies, demand Oil and gas Energy 00 2015-05-07 Introduced in Senate 2015-06-18T14:12:45Z Regional Gas Consumer Protection Act

This bill amends the Natural Gas Act to direct the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, before approving or disapproving an application for the siting, construction, expansion, or operation of a liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal, to consider: (1) regional constraints in the U.S. natural gas supply, and (2) whether the application includes provisions of benefit to the regional consumers that would be affected by the exportation of natural gas.

]]> Regional Gas Consumer Protection Act Display Title Regional Gas Consumer Protection Act Official Title as Introduced A bill to amend the Natural Gas Act to require the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to consider regional constraints in natural gas supply and whether a proposed LNG terminal would benefit regional consumers of natural gas before approving or disapproving an application for the LNG terminal, and for other purposes. Introduced in Senate IS Short Titles as Introduced Regional Gas Consumer Protection Act Introduced in Senate 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-114s1242is/xml/BILLS-114s1242is.xml 2015-05-14 Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Hearings held. 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. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.