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| 2 | 2 | | 118THCONGRESS |
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| 4 | 4 | | STSESSION H. R. 647 |
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| 5 | 5 | | To repeal restrictions on the export and import of natural gas. |
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| 6 | 6 | | IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES |
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| 7 | 7 | | JANUARY31, 2023 |
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| 8 | 8 | | Mr. J |
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| 9 | 9 | | OHNSONof Ohio introduced the following bill; which was referred to the |
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| 10 | 10 | | Committee on Energy and Commerce |
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| 11 | 11 | | A BILL |
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| 12 | 12 | | To repeal restrictions on the export and import of natural |
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| 13 | 13 | | gas. |
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| 14 | 14 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 |
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| 15 | 15 | | tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 |
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| 16 | 16 | | SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3 |
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| 17 | 17 | | This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Unlocking our Domes-4 |
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| 18 | 18 | | tic LNG Potential Act of 2023’’. 5 |
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| 19 | 19 | | SEC. 2. ADVANCING UNITED STATES GLOBAL LEADERSHIP. 6 |
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| 20 | 20 | | Section 3 of the Natural Gas Act (15 U.S.C. 717b) 7 |
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| 21 | 21 | | is amended— 8 |
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| 22 | 22 | | (1) by striking subsections (a) through (c); 9 |
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| 23 | 23 | | (2) by redesignating subsections (e) and (f) as 10 |
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| 24 | 24 | | subsections (a) and (b), respectively; 11 |
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| 28 | 28 | | (3) by redesignating subsection (d) as sub-1 |
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| 29 | 29 | | section (c), and moving such subsection after sub-2 |
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| 30 | 30 | | section (b), as so redesignated; 3 |
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| 31 | 31 | | (4) in subsection (a), as so redesignated, by 4 |
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| 32 | 32 | | amending paragraph (1) to read as follows: ‘‘(1) The 5 |
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| 33 | 33 | | Commission shall have the exclusive authority to ap-6 |
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| 34 | 34 | | prove or deny an application for the siting, construc-7 |
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| 35 | 35 | | tion, expansion, or operation of a facility to export 8 |
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| 36 | 36 | | natural gas from the United States to a foreign 9 |
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| 37 | 37 | | country or import natural gas from a foreign coun-10 |
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| 38 | 38 | | try, including an LNG terminal. Except as specifi-11 |
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| 39 | 39 | | cally provided in this Act, nothing in this Act is in-12 |
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| 40 | 40 | | tended to affect otherwise applicable law related to 13 |
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| 41 | 41 | | any Federal agency’s authorities or responsibilities 14 |
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| 42 | 42 | | related to facilities to import or export natural gas, 15 |
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| 43 | 43 | | including LNG terminals.’’; and 16 |
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| 44 | 44 | | (5) by adding at the end the following new sub-17 |
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| 45 | 45 | | section: 18 |
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| 46 | 46 | | ‘‘(d)(1) Nothing in this Act limits the authority of 19 |
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| 47 | 47 | | the President under the Constitution, the International 20 |
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| 48 | 48 | | Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et 21 |
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| 49 | 49 | | seq.), the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1601 et 22 |
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| 50 | 50 | | seq.), part B of title II of the Energy Policy and Conserva-23 |
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| 51 | 51 | | tion Act (42 U.S.C. 6271 et seq.), the Trading With the 24 |
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| 52 | 52 | | Enemy Act (50 U.S.C. 4301 et seq.), or any other provi-25 |
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| 56 | 56 | | sion of law that imposes sanctions on a foreign person or 1 |
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| 57 | 57 | | foreign government (including any provision of law that 2 |
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| 58 | 58 | | prohibits or restricts United States persons from engaging 3 |
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| 59 | 59 | | in a transaction with a sanctioned person or government), 4 |
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| 60 | 60 | | including a country that is designated as a state sponsor 5 |
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| 61 | 61 | | of terrorism, to prohibit imports or exports. 6 |
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| 62 | 62 | | ‘‘(2) In this subsection, the term ‘state sponsor of ter-7 |
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| 63 | 63 | | rorism’ means a country the government of which the Sec-8 |
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| 64 | 64 | | retary of State determines has repeatedly provided sup-9 |
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| 65 | 65 | | port for international terrorism pursuant to— 10 |
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| 66 | 66 | | ‘‘(A) section 1754(c)(1)(A) of the Export Con-11 |
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| 67 | 67 | | trol Reform Act of 2018 (50 U.S.C. 4318(c)(1)(A)); 12 |
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| 68 | 68 | | ‘‘(B) section 620A of the Foreign Assistance 13 |
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| 69 | 69 | | Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2371); 14 |
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| 70 | 70 | | ‘‘(C) section 40 of the Arms Export Control Act 15 |
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| 71 | 71 | | (22 U.S.C. 2780); or 16 |
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| 72 | 72 | | ‘‘(D) any other provision of law.’’. 17 |
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