H.R. 6365 — Wintergreen Emergency Egress Act

This section revises the Secretary of the Interior's discretionary authority to issue revocable licenses or permits for rights-of-way over, across, or upon Natchez Trace Parkway lands (or for use of such lands by adjacent landowners) by restructuring it as paragraph (1) and adding paragraph (2), which directs issuance of a 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, dated September 2024), if the Secretary reports to the House Committee on Natural Resources and the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources that— (1) an evaluation of alternatives for egress that do not cross federal land (including conversion of existing trails to roads) has been completed; (2) an analysis of expected fire ecology behavior in a fire emergency for the right-of-way has been completed; and (3) required reviews for the right-of-way have been completed under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 and division A of subtitle III of title 54, United States Code (historic preservation requirements).