[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2100 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2100

   To prohibit the Secretary of Transportation from prohibiting the 
    transportation of liquefied natural gas by rail, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 19, 2021

 Mr. Nehls (for himself, Mr. Crawford, Mr. Weber of Texas, Mr. Perry, 
 Mr. Stauber, and Mr. Balderson) introduced the following bill; which 
   was referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure

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                                 A BILL


 
   To prohibit the Secretary of Transportation from prohibiting the 
    transportation of liquefied natural gas by rail, 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 ``Providing Americans with LNG Safely 
Act'' or the ``PALS Act''.

SEC. 2. LIQUEFIED NATURAL GAS BY RAIL.

    (a) In General.--The Secretary of Transportation may not issue any 
regulation or long-term order that--
            (1) prohibits the transportation of ``methane, refrigerated 
        liquid,'', commonly known as liquefied natural gas (LNG), by 
        rail; or
            (2) restricts or contracts the scope of allowance provided 
        by the final rule of the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials 
        Safety Administration, titled ``Hazardous Materials: Liquefied 
        Natural Gas by Rail'' and published in the Federal Register on 
        July 24, 2020 (85 Fed. Reg. 44994).
    (b) Rule of Construction.--Nothing in this section shall be 
construed to limit the authority of the Secretary of Transportation 
from issuing short-term emergency orders related to the transportation 
of liquefied natural gas by rail.
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