DOE Implementing New LNG Export Approval Procedures

The Energy Department says it is revising its procedures related to the approval of facilities to export liquefied natural gas (LNG) to non-free trade agreement (FTA) countries. Effective Aug. 15, DOE will no longer issue conditional approvals while the application awaits a decision on environmental impact by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). The agency will process applications in the order they become ready, rather than any predetermined order of precedence. The change will not affect conditional approvals already issued by DOE, it said.