WASHINGTON, D.C. — Legislation to rebuild the upper Stehekin Valley Road passed a U.S. House of Representatives committee Thursday, and is now ready for a hearing by the full House and Senate, an aide for Rep. Doc Hastings said.

The 10 miles of roadway to popular sites in the North Cascades National Park closed after a 2003 flood wiped out parts of the one-lane dirt road. The National Park Service found Congress had to move a wilderness boundary to rebuild the road because the 100-foot wide corridor of non-wilderness was not wide enough to move the road.

Hastings proposed the measure to the House Natural Resources Committee, which held hearings earlier this year, and now passed the measure authorizing the National Park Service to adjust the wilderness boundary.

The change would result in no net loss of wilderness, and all federal environmental laws would be followed in moving the road, according to Hastings.

No timeline has been set for the full House to hear the bill, said Charlie Keller, communications director for Hastings.