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House Bill 6365
119th Congress(2025-2026)
Wintergreen Emergency Egress Act
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Introduced in House on Dec 2, 2025
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H. R. 6365 (Reported-in-House)

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.


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]


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