Notice of Designation of Potential Wilderness as Wilderness, Fire Island National Seashore

[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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