[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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