; or (B) make a public determination that revising and updating the rule is not necessary at that time. (2) Requirement In carrying out paragraph (1), the Commission shall solicit, consider, and include in the record of any rulemaking proceeding carried out under subparagraph (A) of that paragraph or any determination made under subparagraph (B) of that paragraph any new evidence or information relating to the matters described in subparagraphs (A) through (E) of subsection (c)(2). 3002. Federal authorizations under the Natural Gas Act Section 15 of the Natural Gas Act ( 15 U.S.C. 717n ) is amended— (1) in subsection (a), by inserting before In this section the following: Definition of Federal Authorization ; (2) in subsection (e), by inserting before Hearings under this the following: Hearings and proceedings ; (3) in subsection (f), by inserting before All hearings, the following: Governing rules ; and (4) by inserting after subsection (f) the following: (g) Additional requirements (1) Definition of Effects In conducting a review under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 ( 42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq. ) relating to any Federal authorization (or to any other decision relating to the issuance of an order or certificate, or the approval or denial of an application, under section 3 or 7), the Commission shall consider the term effects , as used in that Act with respect to impacts and effects, to mean physical changes to the human environment as a result of a proposed action or alternative action to be carried out by a Federal agency that— (A) are reasonably foreseeable, not speculative, and not remote in time or geographically remote; (B) have a reasonably close causal relationship that is not the product of a lengthy causal chain to the proposed action or alternative action, respectively, as determined by the Commission; (C) the Commission has the ability to prevent and that would not occur absent the proposed action or alternative action