What a yes vote endorsed
Wintergreen Emergency Egress Act
What this does
The bill requires the Secretary of the Interior to grant a right-of-way for an emergency exit road across National Park Service land on the Blue Ridge Parkway near Milepost 9.6 in Virginia. The mandate is conditional. The Secretary must issue the right-of-way only after reporting to the House Natural Resources Committee and the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee that three steps are complete: an evaluation of alternatives that do not cross Federal land, an analysis of fire ecology behavior in a fire emergency, and any required reviews under the National Environmental Policy Act and title 54 of the U.S. Code. It leaves in place the Secretary's existing discretionary authority to issue rights-of-way under the 1936 law it amends.
Passed the House by voice vote
How we know · 5 sourced claims
- The bill requires the Secretary of the Interior to grant a right-of-way for an emergency exit road on National Park Service land on the Blue Ridge Parkway near Milepost 9.6 in Virginia.Source: Sec. 2
- The mandate is conditional: the Secretary must issue the right-of-way only after reporting to the House Natural Resources Committee and the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee that specified steps are complete.Source: Sec. 2
- The required steps are an evaluation of alternatives that do not cross Federal land, an analysis of fire ecology behavior in a fire emergency, and any required reviews under the National Environmental Policy Act and title 54 of the U.S. Code.Source: Sec. 2(A)-(C)
- The bill amends Section 2 of the Act of June 30, 1936 (16 U.S.C. 460a-3) and leaves in place the Secretary's existing discretionary authority to issue rights-of-way while adding this mandatory duty.Source: Sec. 2
- The right-of-way is the one generally depicted as Proposed Egress on the map titled Blue Ridge Parkway, Proposed Wintergreen Emergency Egress Near Milepost 9.6, dated September 2024.Source: Sec. 2
Reported lobbying
At least
1
organization named this measure in a lobbying filing.
A floor, not a total. Those organizations were counted by the client name on 3 quarterly reports filed by 1 registered lobbying firm in 2025 Q4 and 2026 Q1. The disclosure form takes a free text description of the issue, so an organization that lobbied this measure without naming it is not counted here.
The filings record that lobbying was reported on the measure. They carry no per-bill dollar figure and no position, so nothing here says how much was spent or which side an organization took.
The organization named
- NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION
Listed as filed. It is every client name on the filings counted here.
From the LD-2 quarterly lobbying filings published at lda.gov by the Senate Office of Public Records. Read for 2025 Q1, 2025 Q2, 2025 Q3, 2025 Q4, 2026 Q1 and 2026 Q2. The pull came up 2 short in 2025 Q4 and 7 short in 2026 Q2 against the register's own count, so those quarters are the filings posted rather than every one filed. 2026 Q3 is still inside its filing window, so that quarter is only the filings posted so far.