Wintergreen Emergency Egress Act

This Act may be cited as the “Wintergreen Emergency Egress Act”.

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.”.