Unlocking our Domestic LNG Potential Act of 2025 in plain language
1: Short title
This section would give the Act the short title 'Unlocking our Domestic LNG Potential Act of 2025.'
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1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Unlocking our Domestic LNG Potential Act of 2025 .
2: Advancing United States global leadership
This section would rewrite section 3 of the Natural Gas Act (15 U.S.C. 717b), the law that governs federal approval of facilities to export natural gas from the United States or import natural gas into the United States, including LNG terminals. It would remove the section's former subsections (a) through (c). It would renumber the former subsections (e) and (f) as (a) and (b), and would move the former subsection (d) later in the section, redesignating it as subsection (c) and placing it after new subsection (b); the wording of that relocated subsection, and of new subsection (b), is not changed by this bill. Within new subsection (a), paragraph (1) would be rewritten to give the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission the exclusive authority to approve or deny an application for authorization to site, build, expand, or operate a facility that exports natural gas from the United States to a foreign country or imports natural gas from a foreign country, including an LNG terminal. In deciding such an application, the Commission would be required to treat the export or import of the natural gas as consistent with the public interest. Except as specifically provided elsewhere in this Act, the rewritten paragraph states that nothing in the Natural Gas Act is meant to affect any federal agency's existing legal authorities or responsibilities over facilities that import or export natural gas, including LNG terminals. The section would also add a new subsection (d) stating that nothing in the Natural Gas Act limits the President's authority under the Constitution, the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, the National Emergencies Act, part B of title II of the Energy Policy and Conservation Act, the Trading With the Enemy Act, or any other law that imposes sanctions on a foreign person or foreign government, including a law that bars or restricts United States persons from engaging in a transaction with a sanctioned person or government, to prohibit imports or exports, even where the sanctioned government is a country designated as a state sponsor of terrorism. New subsection (d) would also define state sponsor of terrorism, for purposes of that subsection, as a country whose government the Secretary of State determines has repeatedly provided support for international terrorism under section 1754(c)(1)(A) of the Export Control Reform Act of 2018, section 620A of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, section 40 of the Arms Export Control Act, or any other provision of law.
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2. Advancing United States global leadership Section 3 of the Natural Gas Act ( 15 U.S.C. 717b ) is amended— (1) by striking subsections (a) through (c); (2) by redesignating subsections (e) and (f) as subsections (a) and (b), respectively; (3) by redesignating subsection (d) as subsection (c), and moving such subsection after subsection (b), as so redesignated; (4) in subsection (a), as so redesignated, by amending paragraph (1) to read as follows: (1) The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (in this subsection referred to as the Commission ) shall have the exclusive authority to approve or deny an application for authorization for the siting, construction, expansion, or operation of a facility to export natural gas from the United States to a foreign country or import natural gas from a foreign country, including an LNG terminal. In determining whether to approve or deny an application under this paragraph, the Commission shall deem the exportation or importation of natural gas to be consistent with the public interest. Except as specifically provided in this Act, nothing in this Act is intended to affect otherwise applicable law related to any Federal agency’s authorities or responsibilities related to facilities to import or export natural gas, including LNG terminals. ; and (5) by adding at the end the following new subsection: (d) (1) Nothing in this Act limits the authority of the President under the Constitution, the International Emergency Economic Powers Act ( 50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq. ), the National Emergencies Act ( 50 U.S.C. 1601 et seq. ), part B of title II of the Energy Policy and Conservation Act ( 42 U.S.C. 6271 et seq. ), the Trading With the Enemy Act ( 50 U.S.C. 4301 et seq. ), or any other provision of law that imposes sanctions on a foreign person or foreign government (including any provision of law that prohibits or restricts United States persons from engaging in a transaction with a sanctioned person or government), including a country that is designated as a state sponsor of terrorism, to prohibit imports or exports. (2) In this subsection, the term state sponsor of terrorism means a country the government of which the Secretary of State determines has repeatedly provided support for international terrorism pursuant to— (A) section 1754(c)(1)(A) of the Export Control Reform Act of 2018 ( 50 U.S.C. 4318(c)(1)(A) ); (B) section 620A of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 ( 22 U.S.C. 2371 ); (C) section 40 of the Arms Export Control Act ( 22 U.S.C. 2780 ); or (D) any other provision of law. . Passed the House of Representatives November 20, 2025. Kevin F. McCumber, Clerk.