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kind: "diff"
citation: "H.R. 4606"
bill: "115-hr-4606"
heading: "Ensuring Small Scale LNG Certainty and Access Act"
from: "ih"
from_label: "Introduced in House"
to: "rh"
to_label: "Reported in House"
sections_amended: 1
sections_added: 0
sections_removed: 0
url: "https://uscodex.org/bills/115/hr/4606/changes/rh"
---

# H.R. 4606 — what changed

H.R. 4606, Ensuring Small Scale LNG Certainty and Access Act — 1 section amended between Introduced in House and Reported in House.

Edits are marked `<del>struck</del>` and `<ins>inserted</ins>`.

## 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 <del>“subsection (b), or ” </del><ins>“For purposes” </ins>and inserting <del>“subsection (b),”; </del><ins>“(1) For purposes”; </ins>and
- (2) by <del>inserting “, or </del><ins>adding at </ins>the <del>importation or exportation of a volume of natural gas that does not exceed 0.14 billion cubic feet per day” after “national treatment for trade in natural gas” .</del><ins>end the following:</ins>
  - <ins>“(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—</ins>
  - <ins>“(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</ins>
  - <ins>“(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.”</ins>