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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 Vir-
ginia) 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] 
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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. 
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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives 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 insert-
ing ‘‘; and’’; and 
(3) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(2) shall issue the right-of-way generally de-
picted 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— 
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‘‘(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 be-
havior 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 accord-
ance with— 
‘‘(i) the National Environmental Pol-
icy Act of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.); 
and 
‘‘(ii) division A of subtitle III of title 
54, United States Code.’’. 
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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 Vir-
ginia, and for other purposes. 
FEBRUARY 23, 2026 
Reported with an amendment, committed to the Com-
mittee of the Whole House on the State of the Union, 
and ordered to be printed 
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