[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 196 (Tuesday, October 12, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Page 55308]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-26563]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
Notice of Designation of Potential Wilderness as Wilderness, Fire
Island National Seashore
AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.
ACTION: Notice.
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The Otis Pike Fire Island High Dunes Wilderness Act, Public Law 96-
585, December 23, 1980, designated approximately 1,363 acres as
wilderness in the Fire Island National Seashore and further identified
18 acres as potential wilderness additions. The National Park Service
(NPS) described the wilderness and potential wilderness areas on maps
entitled ``Wilderness Plan-Fire Island National Seashore,'' dated
December, 1980. In November, 1983 the NPS adopted the ``Wilderness
Management Plan, Fire Island National Seashore'' which also contained
the legal description of the wilderness boundaries and a map showing
the wilderness and the potential wilderness areas.
Section (c) of Public Law 96-585 provided a process whereby
potential wilderness additions within the Fire Island National Seashore
would become designated wilderness upon publication in the Federal
Register of a notice by the Secretary of the Interior that all uses on
the land prohibited by the Wilderness Act (Public Law 88-577) have
ceased.
The NPS has determined that all of the Wilderness Act prohibited
activities of the following described designated potential wilderness
additions have ceased. Such lands are entirely in Federal ownership. In
that these parcels now fully comply with the instructions contained in
Pub. L. 96-585, this notice hereby designates the identified 17 acres
of potential wilderness within Fire Island National Seashore as
designated wilderness. This acreage will be added to the National
Wilderness Preservation System and bring the total wilderness acreage
of the Fire Island National Seashore to 1,380 acres, more or less.
There remains 1 acre, more or less, of potential wilderness additions
within Fire Island National Seashore.
The potential wilderness lands hereby designated as wilderness are
described as:
(1) The sites of former residential structures and their associated
access roads, further identified as;
(a) seven (7) sites at Long Cove
(b) thirteen (13) sites at Whalehouse Point
(c) one (1) site at Old Inlet
(2) the vehicle cuts at long Cove, Whalehouse Point, and Old Inlet,
and the sand roads leading from them to the access roads to the former
residences at Long Cove, Whalehouse Point, and Old Inlet, and the
access road to Watch Hill.
(3) The sites of the former Watch Hill horse stable and maintenance
yard, and the access roads leading to them.
(4) The former Long Cove boardwalk nature trail.
The area of 1 acre, more or less, including the boardwalk nature
trail at Smith point and the boardwalk, dune crossing and bathhouse at
Old Inlet will remain as potential wilderness until such time as
existing non-conforming uses are terminated.
The maps and legal description are on file at the headquarters of
the Fire Island National Seashore, 120 Laurel Street, Patchogue, NY
11772, and at the Office of the Director, 1849 C Street NW, Washington
DC 20240
Dated: October 4, 1999.
Robert Stanton,
Director, National Park Service.
[FR Doc. 99-26563 Filed 10-8-99; 8:45 am]
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