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—
by striking Secretary of the Interior may issue and inserting the following: “Secretary of the Interior—
may issue
by striking the period at the end and inserting ; and; and
by adding at the end the following:
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—
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;
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
any required reviews with respect to the right-of-way have been completed in accordance with—
the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.); and
division A of subtitle III of title 54, United States Code.