Wintergreen Emergency Egress Act

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6365 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 6365

To require the Secretary of the Interior to issue a right-of-way for an 
 emergency exit on certain National Park Service land in the State of 
                   Virginia, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            December 2, 2025

Mr. McGuire (for himself, Mr. Wittman, Ms. McClellan, Mr. Griffith, Mr. 
   Vindman, Mr. Cline, Mr. Walkinshaw, and Mrs. Kiggans of Virginia) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                           Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
To require the Secretary of the Interior to issue a right-of-way for an 
 emergency exit on certain National Park Service land in the State of 
                   Virginia, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Wintergreen Emergency Egress Act''.

SEC. 2. RIGHT-OF-WAY FOR EMERGENCY EXIT, BLUE RIDGE PARKWAY.

    Section 2 of the Act of June 30, 1936 (49 Stat. 2041, chapter 883; 
54 Stat. 250, chapter 277; 16 U.S.C. 460a-3), is amended--
            (1) by striking ``Secretary of the Interior may issue'' and 
        inserting the following: ``Secretary of the Interior--
            ``(1) may issue'';
            (2) by striking the period at the end and inserting ``; 
        and''; and
            (3) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(2) shall issue the right-of-way generally depicted as 
        `Proposed Egress' on the map entitled `Blue Ridge Parkway, 
        Proposed Wintergreen Emergency Egress Near Milepost 9.6', 
        numbered 601/194,694, and dated September 2024, if the 
        Secretary certifies that--
                    ``(A) an evaluation has been completed of 
                alternatives to the right-of-way for egress that do not 
                cross Federal land that includes evaluating whether 
                existing trails can be converted to roads;
                    ``(B) an analysis of expected fire ecology behavior 
                in the event of a fire emergency has been completed 
                with respect to the right-of-way; and
                    ``(C) any required reviews with respect to the 
                right-of-way have been completed in accordance with--
                            ``(i) the National Environmental Policy Act 
                        of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.); and
                            ``(ii) division A of subtitle III of title 
                        54, United States Code.''.
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