[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 222 (Thursday, November 18, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Page 63057]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-29779]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
Notice of Designation of Potential Wilderness as Wilderness,
Point Reyes National Seashore
AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior
ACTION: Notice.
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Public Law 94-567, approved October 20, 1976, designated 25,370
acres in Point Reyes National Seashore as Wilderness, and further
identified 8,003 acres as potential wilderness additions in maps
entitled ``Wilderness Plan, Point Reyes National Seashore'', numbered
612-90,000-B and dated September 1976. These maps showing the
wilderness area and potential wilderness additions are on file at the
headquarters of Point Reyes National Seashore, Point Reyes Station,
California, 94956.
Section 3 of Public Law 94-567 provided a process whereby potential
wilderness additions within the Point Reyes National Seashore would
convert to designated wilderness upon publication in the Federal
Register of a notice that all uses of the land, prohibited by the
Wilderness Act (Pub. L. 88-577), have ceased.
The National Park Service has determined that all Wilderness Act
prohibited activities on the following described designated potential
wilderness additions have ceased. The lands are located in the Muddy
Hollow, Abbotts Lagoon, and Limantour Area and are described on map
612-60, 189. Such lands are entirely in Federal ownership. Because such
lands now fully comply with congressional direction in Section 3 of
Public Law 94-567, this notice hereby effects the change in status of
the lands in these areas to designated wilderness, totaling 1,752
acres, more or less. The map showing this change is on file at the
headquarters of Point Reyes National Seashore, Point Reyes Station,
California, 94956.
This notice hereby changes the total wilderness acreage within
Point Reyes National Seashore to 27,122 acres. The potential wilderness
additions remaining consist of 6,251 more or less. The remaining
potential wilderness areas will remain as such until all uses
conflicting with the provisions of the Wilderness Act have ceased.
Note that Congress in Public Law 99-68, approved on July, 1985,
designated that the wilderness area of Point Reyes National Seashore,
to be known as the ``Phillip Burton Wilderness.''
Dated: October 29, 1999.
Robert Stanton,
Director, National Park Service.
[FR Doc. 99-29779 Filed 11-17-99; 8:45 am]
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