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U.S. GOVERNMENT
INFORMATION
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Calendar No. 175
116TH CONGRESS SEAEREPORT
1st Session J SENATE 116-73
SMALL SCALE LNG ACCESS ACT OF 2019
AUGUST 16, 2019.-Ordered to be printed
Filed, under authority of the order of the Senate of August 1, 2019
Ms. MURKOWSKJ, from the Committee on Energy and Natural
Resources, submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany S. 816]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, to which was
referred the bill (S. 816), to amend the Natural Gas Act to expedite
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. 816 is to amend the Natural Gas Act (NGA,
Public Law 75-688) to expedite approval of exports of small vol-
umes of natural gas.
BACKGROUND AND NEED
The Department of Energy (DOE) exercises regulatory authority
to review and approve applications for the export of natural gas
under the section 3 of the NGA. Section 3(a) of the NGA provides,
among other things, 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 (Secretary) issue the order authorizing the export unless
the Secretary 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
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