[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
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[H.R. 6365 Reported in House (RH)]
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Union Calendar No. 437
119th CONGRESS
2d Session
H. R. 6365
[Report No. 119-511]
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
February 23, 2026
Reported with an amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole
House on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed
[Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed
in italic]
[For text of introduced bill, see copy of bill as introduced on
December 2, 2025]
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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 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.''.
Union Calendar No. 437
119th CONGRESS
2d Session
H. R. 6365
[Report No. 119-511]
_______________________________________________________________________
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.
_______________________________________________________________________
February 23, 2026
Reported with an amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole
House on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed