Section 1 Short title
This Act may be cited as the “Wintergreen Emergency Egress Act”.
Wintergreen Emergency Egress Act
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.
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—
by striking “Secretary of the Interior may issue” and inserting the following: “Secretary of the Interior—
“(1) may issue”
by striking the period at the end and inserting “; and”; and
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.”