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H. Rept. 119-511 1 (2026-02-23)

handle is hein.congrecreports/crptxaibi0001 and id is 1 raw text is: AUTHENTICATED r U.S. GOVERNMENT INFORMATION 4 119TH CONGRESS REPORT 2d Session j HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 119-511 WINTERGREEN EMERGENCY EGRESS ACT FEBRUARY 23, 2026.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed Mr. WESTERMAN, from the Committee on Natural Resources, submitted the following REPORT [To accompany H.R. 6365] The Committee on Natural Resources, to whom was referred the bill (H.R. 6365) to require the Secretary of the Interior to issue a right-of-way for an emergency exit on certain National Park Serv- ice land in the State of Virginia, and for other purposes, having considered the same, reports favorably thereon with an amendment and recommends that the bill as amended do pass. The amendment is as follows: Strike all after the enacting clause and insert the following: 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 fol- lowing: 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 '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 Rep- resentatives and the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of the Senate 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 com- pleted in accordance with- 69-006