HR6365119th Congress

Wintergreen Emergency Egress Act

Sponsored By: Representative McGuire

In Committee

Summary

A mandatory right-of-way for an emergency exit across Blue Ridge Parkway land near Wintergreen, Virginia. This bill would require the Secretary of the Interior to issue a right-of-way shown on a specific map once required environmental and planning analyses are finished and reported to designated congressional committees.

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  • Families and local residents: Would gain a planned emergency egress corridor near milepost 9.6 intended to help evacuations during fire emergencies.
  • Emergency responders and planners: Would see a requirement for analyses of alternatives that avoid Federal land when possible and an analysis of expected fire ecology behavior before the right-of-way can be issued. Those reviews must include the National Environmental Policy Act and related federal reviews and be reported to the House Natural Resources Committee and the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee.
  • Project scope and limits: The authorization is tied to the corridor depicted on the map dated September 2024, creating a narrowly defined alignment for the egress.

Bill Overview

Analyzed Economic Effects

1 provisions identified: 1 benefits, 0 costs, 0 mixed.

Emergency exit road near Wintergreen

This bill would require the Secretary of the Interior to issue a right-of-way for an emergency exit on National Park Service land along the Blue Ridge Parkway near Wintergreen, Virginia. The right-of-way would follow the alignment shown as “Proposed Egress” on the map titled "Blue Ridge Parkway, Proposed Wintergreen Emergency Egress Near Milepost 9.6," map number 601/194,694, dated September 2024. Before issuing the right-of-way, the Secretary would have to report to the House Committee on Natural Resources and the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources that: an evaluation of alternatives avoiding Federal land (including whether existing trails can be converted to roads) is complete; an analysis of expected fire-ecology behavior for the corridor is complete; and required reviews under the National Environmental Policy Act (42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.) and division A of subtitle III of title 54 are complete. Once those analyses and reviews are reported to the two committees, the Secretary would be required to issue the right-of-way as depicted.

Sponsors & CoSponsors

Sponsor

McGuire

VA • R

Cosponsors

  • Wittman

    VA • R

    Sponsored 12/2/2025

  • McClellan

    VA • D

    Sponsored 12/2/2025

  • Griffith

    VA • R

    Sponsored 12/2/2025

  • Vindman

    VA • D

    Sponsored 12/2/2025

  • Cline

    VA • R

    Sponsored 12/2/2025

  • Walkinshaw

    VA • D

    Sponsored 12/2/2025

  • Kiggans (VA)

    VA • R

    Sponsored 12/2/2025

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