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

Résumé

The Otis Pike Fire Island High Dunes Wilderness Act, Public Law 96-585, December 23, 1980, designated approximately 1,360 acres as wilderness in the Fire Island National Seashore. Due to existing boardwalks and a pit toilet, this Act also designated approximately 18 acres of potential wilderness within Fire Island National Seashore that could be re-designated as wilderness upon elimination of these non- conforming uses. 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. On October 12, 1999, 17 acres of potential wilderness were re-designated as wilderness (see Federal Register Vol. 64, No. 196). On October 29, 2012, Hurricane Sandy moved through Fire Island National Seashore, destroying the boardwalk nature trail west of the Wilderness Visitor Center, the boardwalk dune crossing, and pit toilet at Old Inlet. The footprint of