HR6365Passed House
Wintergreen Emergency Egress Act
Introduced
In Committee
Passed One Chamber
4
Passed Both5
Signed into Law119th
Congress
2025-12-02
Introduced
7
Cosponsors
HR
ⓘType
Sponsor
John J. McGuire III
Republican · VA · Representative
Votes with party: 93.8% (662 recorded votes)
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Cosponsors (7)
Members who have signed on to support this bill since introduction. Source: Congress.gov.
- Ben Cline (R-VA-6)Original· 2025-12-02
- Eugene Simon Vindman (D-VA-7)Original· 2025-12-02
- H. Morgan Griffith (R-VA-9)Original· 2025-12-02
- James R. Walkinshaw (D-VA-11)Original· 2025-12-02
- Jennifer A. Kiggans (R-VA-2)Original· 2025-12-02
- Jennifer L. McClellan (D-VA-4)Original· 2025-12-02
- Robert J. Wittman (R-VA-1)Original· 2025-12-02
Latest Action
The most recent step in the bill's legislative path. Committee Activity below shows referrals and reports; the full action-by-action history including floor proceedings lives at Congress.gov →
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 664.
2026-09-17
Source: Congress.gov
Committee Activity
Currently in
- Senate Committee on Energy and Natural ResourcesReported By · 2026-09-17
- House Committee on Natural ResourcesReported By · 2026-02-23
Previously
- Senate Committee on Energy and Natural ResourcesMarkup By · 2026-07-29
- Senate Committee on Energy and Natural ResourcesReferred To · 2026-03-04
- House Committee on Natural ResourcesDischarged from · 2026-01-22
- House Committee on Natural ResourcesMarkup By · 2026-01-22
- House Committee on Natural ResourcesReferred To · 2025-12-02
Plain-English Summary
Wintergreen Emergency Egress Act This bill directs the Department of the Interior to issue a right-of-way through the Blue Ridge Parkway for an additional emergency exit from Wintergreen in Nelson County, Virginia, once certain requirements have been met. Specifically, Interior must grant the right-of-way if it reports to specified congressional committees that the following have been completed: (1) an evaluation of alternatives to the right-of-way for exiting Wintergreen that do not cross federal land, including an evaluation of whether existing trails can be converted to roads; (2) an analysis of expected fire ecology behavior in the event of a fire emergency with respect to the right-of-way; and (3) any required reviews under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 and the National Historic Preservation Act.
Plain-English rewrite of the Congressional Research Service summary published on Congress.gov. Cached and reviewed.
Subjects
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Full Bill Text
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[Congressional Bills 119th Congress] [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office] [H.R. 6365 Engrossed in House (EH)] <DOC> 119th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 6365 _______________________________________________________________________ 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: Clerk. 119th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 6365 _______________________________________________________________________ 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.
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