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U.S. -OVERNMENT
INFORMATION
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Calendar No. 412
115TH CONGRESS S REPORT
2d Session J SENATE1 115-248
SMALL SCALE LNG ACCESS ACT OF 2017
MAY 10, 2018.-Ordered to be printed
Ms. MURKOWSKJ, from the Committee on Energy and Natural
Resources, submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany S. 1981]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, to which was
referred the bill (S. 1981) to amend the Natural Gas Act to expe-
dite approval of exports of small volumes of natural gas, and for
other purposes, having considered the same, reports favorably
thereon without amendment and recommends that the bill do pass.
PURPOSE
The purpose of S. 1981 is to amend the Natural Gas Act (NGA)
to expedite approval of exports of small volumes of natural gas, and
for other purposes.
BACKGROUND AND NEED
The Department of Energy exercises regulatory authority under
the section 3 of the NGA to review and approve applications for the
export of natural gas. Section 3(a) of the NGA provides, inter alia,
that no person shall export natural gas from the United States to
a foreign country without first having secured an order authorizing
it to do so. It also requires that the Secretary of Energy issue the
order authorizing the export unless he finds the export will not be
consistent with the public interest.
Section 3(c) of the NGA currently provides a statutory deter-
mination that exports of natural gas to any nation with which
there is in effect a free trade agreement requiring national treat-
ment for trade in natural gas are in the public interest, eliminating
any need for the Secretary of Energy to make that determination
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