H.R. 6365

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6365 Referred in Senate (RFS)]

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119th CONGRESS
2d Session
H. R. 6365

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IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

March 4, 2026

Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and 
Natural Resources

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AN ACT

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 reports to the Committee on Natural Resources of the 
House of Representatives and the Committee on Energy and 
Natural Resources of the Senate 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.''.

Passed the House of Representatives March 3, 2026.

Attest:

KEVIN F. MCCUMBER,

Clerk.