S. 3313

119 S3313 IS: Wintergreen Emergency Egress Act
 U.S. Senate
 2025-12-02
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 II  119th CONGRESS  1st Session  S. 3313  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.
1.
Short title
This Act may be cited as the   Wintergreen Emergency Egress Act  .
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.
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