[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6 Introduced in House (IH)]

113th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                 H. R. 6

  To provide for expedited approval of exportation of natural gas to 
      World Trade Organization countries, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 6, 2014

Mr. Gardner (for himself, Mr. Ryan of Ohio, Mr. Upton, Mr. Shimkus, Mr. 
 Whitfield, Mr. Barton, Mr. Olson, Mrs. McMorris Rodgers, Mr. Guthrie, 
Mrs. Ellmers, Mr. Gingrey of Georgia, Mr. Burgess, Mr. Johnson of Ohio, 
    Mr. Lance, Mr. Cassidy, Mr. Scalise, Mr. Latta, Mr. Griffith of 
Virginia, Mr. Pitts, Mr. Rogers of Michigan, Mr. Hall, Mr. Turner, Mr. 
  Boustany, and Mr. Womack) introduced the following bill; which was 
            referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
  To provide for expedited approval of exportation of natural gas to 
      World Trade Organization countries, 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 ``Domestic Prosperity and Global 
Freedom Act''.

SEC. 2. AMENDMENTS.

    Section 3(c) of the Natural Gas Act (15 U.S.C. 717b(c)) is 
amended--
            (1) by inserting ``(1)'' before ``For purposes'';
            (2) by striking ``a nation with which there is in effect a 
        free trade agreement requiring national treatment for trade in 
        natural gas'' and inserting ``a World Trade Organization member 
        nation''; and
            (3) by adding at the end the following:
    ``(2) For purposes of this subsection, the term `World Trade 
Organization member nation' means a country described in section 2(10) 
of the Uruguay Round Agreements Act (19 U.S.C. 3501(10)).''.

SEC. 3. PENDING APPLICATIONS.

    Any application for authorization to export natural gas under 
section 3 of the Natural Gas Act (15 U.S.C. 717b) for which a notice 
has been published in the Federal Register before March 6, 2014, shall 
be granted without modification or delay.
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