Wintergreen Emergency Egress Act

Tim Kaine

Democrat · VA · Senator

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• Mark R. Warner (D-VA)Original· 2025-12-02

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on National Parks. Hearings held.

2026-07-21

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The bill would establish or improve emergency exit routes and safety measures on public lands, likely focusing on areas managed by federal agencies like national forests or public lands. This would help ensure that people using these public lands—including hikers, campers, and outdoor recreationists—have clear escape routes during emergencies like wildfires or other disasters. The changes would apply to how federal land managers design and maintain trails and access points on the lands they oversee.

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[Congressional Bills 119th Congress] [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office] [S. 3313 Introduced in Senate (IS)] <DOC> 119th CONGRESS 1st Session S. 3313 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 SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES December 2, 2025 Mr. Kaine (for himself and Mr. Warner) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources _______________________________________________________________________ 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 `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.''. <all>

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