  This study investigates the impact of the fluctuations in the extra galactic
background light (EBL) on the attenuation of the hard $\gamma$-ray spectra of
distant blazars. EBL fluctuations occur on the scales up to 100 Mpc and are
caused by clustering of galaxies. The EBL photons interact with high energy
$\gamma$-rays via the electron-positron pair production mechanism: $\gamma +
\gamma' \rightarrow e^+ + e^-$. The attenuation of $\gamma$-rays depends on
their energy and the density of the intervening EBL photon field. Using a
simple model for the evolution of the mean EBL photon density, we implement an
analytical description of the EBL fluctuations. We find that the amplitudes of
the EBL energy density can vary by $\pm 1\%$ as a function of environment. The
EBL fluctuations lead to mild alterations of the optical depth or equivalently
the transmissivity for $\gamma$-rays from distant blazars. Our model predicts
maximum changes of $\pm 10\%$ in the $\gamma$-ray transmissivity. However, this
translates into marginal differences in the power law slopes of currently
observed $\gamma$-ray spectra. The slopes of deabsorbed $\gamma$-ray spectra
differ by not more than $\pm 1\%$ if EBL fluctuations are included.
