[Federal Register Volume 59, Number 73 (Friday, April 15, 1994)]
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From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 94-9096]
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[Federal Register: April 15, 1994]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
Designation of Wilderness, Gulf Islands National Seashore, MS
AGENCY: National Park Service, Department of the Interior.
ACTION: Designation of Wilderness, Gulf Islands National Seashore,
Mississippi.
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SUMMARY: Public Law 95-625 (92 Stat. 3490) approved on November 10,
1978, designated 1,800 acres of Gulf Islands National Seashore as
wilderness and another 2,800 acres as potential wilderness additions.
These wilderness designations apply to portions of Horn and Petit Bois
Islands in Mississippi and are depicted on a map entitled ``Wilderness
Plan, Gulf Islands National Seashore, Mississippi, Florida'' numbered
635-20,018A and dated March 1977. Section 403 of the public law
directed the Secretary of the Interior to designate the potential
wilderness additions as wilderness, by the publication of a notice in
the Federal Register, when all uses thereon that were prohibited by the
Wilderness Act (Public Law 88-577) had ceased.
Five tracts on Horn Island totalling 159.85 acres and two tracts on
Petit Bois Island totalling 717.42 acres were a portion of the
properties designated as potential wilderness by Public Law 95-625 in
1978. These seven tracts described, respectively, as Tracts 02-106, 02-
114, 02-121, 02-122, 02-147, 04-105 and 04-107, were acquired by the
United States subsequent to their designation as potential wilderness.
All uses of these tracts which are prohibited by the Wilderness Act
have now ceased.
Since all uses of this property now comply with the restrictions of
the Wilderness Act, this notice, pursuant to the authority found in
U.S.C. section 1132(c), hereby changes the designation of the seven
described tracts of land from potential wilderness to wilderness. This
increases the designated Gulf Islands Wilderness by 877.27 acres to a
total of 4,080.15 acres. By virtue of this designation, these
properties have become a component of the National Wilderness
Preservation System.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: The Superintendent, Gulf Islands
National Seashore, (904) 934-2604, at the address below.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Each of the tract numbers used in this
notice refers to National Park Service Map Number 63535000B, Sheets 3
and 5 of 12, dated April 1971. All 12 sheets of this map are available
at the following addresses:
ADDRESSES:
Department of the Interior, National Park Service--room 3230, 18th & C
Streets NW., Washington, DC 20240
Southeast Regional Office, National Park Service, 75 Spring Street SW.,
Atlanta, Georgia 30303
Gulf Islands National Seashore, 1801 Gulf Breeze Parkway, Gulf Breeze,
Florida 32561.
Dated: April 7, 1994.
Roger G. Kennedy,
Director, National Park Service.
[FR Doc. 94-9096 Filed 4-14-94; 8:45 am]
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