[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4606 Referred in Senate (RFS)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4606


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           September 6, 2018

   Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and 
                           Natural Resources

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                                 AN ACT


 
    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.

    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 ``Ensuring Small Scale LNG Certainty 
and Access Act''.

SEC. 2. 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.''.

            Passed the House of Representatives September 6, 2018.

            Attest:

                                                 KAREN L. HAAS,

                                                                 Clerk.