[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1242 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

114th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1242

 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.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              May 7, 2015

   Mr. King introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
       referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources

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                                 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.

    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 ``Regional Gas Consumer Protection 
Act''.

SEC. 2. REQUIRED CONSIDERATIONS FOR APPROVAL OR DISAPPROVAL OF 
              APPLICATIONS FOR LNG TERMINALS.

    Section 3(e) of the Natural Gas Act (15 U.S.C. 717b(e)) is amended 
by adding at the end the following:
            ``(5) Required considerations.--Before the Commission may 
        approve or disapprove an application for the siting, 
        construction, expansion, or operation of an LNG terminal under 
        this subsection, the Commission shall consider--
                    ``(A) regional constraints in the natural gas 
                supply of the United States; and
                    ``(B) whether the application includes provisions 
                of benefit to the regional consumers of natural gas 
                that would be affected by the exportation of natural 
                gas.''.
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