Wilderness designations: Point Reyes National Seashore, CA,

[Federal Register: November 18, 1999 (Volume 64, Number 222)]

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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.

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. 99-29779Filed11-17-99; 8:45 am]

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