1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Appalachian Energy for National Security Act . 2. Findings Congress finds that— (1) the Energy Information Administration projects that— (A) domestic natural gas production from shale resources will more than double between 2017 and 2050; and (B) continued development of the Marcellus and Utica shale plays in the eastern United States is the main driver of growth in total domestic natural gas production across most scenarios; (2) the Department of Energy has found that— (A) the shale resource endowment of the Appalachian Basin is so bountiful that, if the Appalachian Basin were an independent country, the Appalachian Basin would be the third largest producer of natural gas in the world; (B) with more than $300,000,000,000 of net revenue, 900,000 workers, and 7,500 establishments, Appalachia and surrounding areas account for nearly a third of United States activities in 13 petrochemical industries; and (C) the aggregate revenue growth from commodity chemicals that can be derived from ethane (commonly known as the value chain ) is projected to be $716,000,000,000 between 2018 and 2040; (3) geographical diversity and structural resilience is critical, given that the Department of Energy has found that— (A) 95 percent of ethylene production capacity in the United States currently exists in the States of Louisiana and Texas; (B) this concentration of assets and operations may pose a strategic risk to the economy of the United States as extreme weather events impacting the production of petrochemicals (including plastic resin) on the Gulf Coast can limit the availability of feedstocks to manufacturers across the United States; and (C) in August 2017, many Gulf Coast refineries and petrochemical facilities shut down, which affected 54 percent of United States ethylene production and 36 percent of United States ethylene consumption capacity