[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 31 (Thursday, February 14, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Page 6944]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-3563]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service


Notice of Conversion of Potential Wilderness as Designated 
Wilderness, Haleakala National Park

    Public Law No. 94-567, Approved October 20, 1976 designated 19,270 
acres of Haleakala National Park as wilderness and an additional 5,500 
acres as potential wilderness additions. These wilderness designations 
apply to portions of Haleakala National Park depicted on a map entitled 
``Wilderness Plan, Haleakala National Park'', numbered 162-20,006-A and 
dated July 1972, known as the Haleakala Wilderness.
    Section 3 of Pub. L. 94-567 directed the Secretary of the Interior 
to designate that potential wilderness additions be converted to 
``designated'' wilderness through the publication of a notice in the 
Federal Register stating that these lands have been acquired by the 
federal government and that any previous uses thereon that are 
prohibited by the Wilderness Act (Pub. L. 88-577) have ceased.
    All lands, with the exception of 51 acres owned by East Maui 
Irrigation Inc., designated as potential wilderness on map #162-20, 006 
have been acquired and are now owned by the U.S. government as 
administered by Haleakala National Park. There are no current or 
proposed uses of the 5,449 acres proposed for conversion which are 
incompatible with the Wilderness Act. Since the 51 acres included 
within the Maui Irrigation parcel is not owned by the federal 
government, it will continue to be identified as ``potential 
wilderness'' in keeping with the instructions of Pub. L. 94-567.
    These 5,449 acres of federally owned land now fully comply with the 
instructions contained in Pub. L. 95-625. Accordingly, this notice 
hereby converts the 5,449 acres of ``potential wilderness: within 
Haleakala National Park to designated wilderness.'' The 5,449 acres are 
accordingly added to the 19,270 acres already preserved within the 
National Wilderness Preservation System and bring the total area of 
designated wilderness at Haleakala National Park to 24,719 acres of 
wilderness and 51 acres of ``potential wilderness''. It is noted that 
construction of fences to exclude feral animals and access into the 
wilderness via helicopter for fence maintenance to control destructive 
invasive alien plants and non-native animals may be necessary to 
preserve wilderness resources and ecosystem processes.

    Dated: February 1, 2002.
Fran P. Mainella,
 Director, National Park Service.
[FR Doc. 02-3563 Filed 2-13-02; 8:45 am]
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