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H.R. 6365 · 119th Congress

Wintergreen Emergency Egress Act

Introduced Dec 2, 2025Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources

Read the textOn Congress.gov

Status: Passed House

  1. Introduced
  2. Committee
  3. Passed House
  4. Passed Senate
  5. To President
  6. Law

Latest action

: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 664.

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.

Summary by the Congressional Research Service.

Actions

  1. Senate

    Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 664.

  2. Senate

    Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Lee with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. Without written report.

  3. Senate

    Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.

  4. Senate

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

  5. Senate

    Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.

  6. House

    Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.

  7. House

    On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H2347)

  8. House

    DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 6365.

  9. House

    Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H2347-2348)

  10. House

    Mr. Westerman moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.

  11. House

    Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 437.

  12. House

    Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 119-511.

Show 7 earlier actions
  1. House

    Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Unanimous Consent.

  2. House

    Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held

  3. House

    Subcommittee on Federal Lands Discharged

  4. House

    Subcommittee Hearings Held

  5. House

    Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Lands.

  6. House

    Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.

  7. Introduced in House