Culturally Significant Objects Imported for Exhibition Determinations

[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 37 (Wednesday, February 25, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Page 9629]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-4839]


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United States Information Agency


Culturally Significant Objects Imported for Exhibition 
Determinations

    Notice is hereby given of the following determinations: Pursuant to 
the authority vested in me by the Act of October 19, 1965 (79 Stat. 
985, 22 U.S.C. 2459), Executive Order 12047 of March 27, 1978 (43 F.R. 
13359, March 29, 1978), and Delegation Order No. 85-5 of June 27, 1985 
(50 F.R. 27393, July 2, 1985), I hereby determine that the objects to 
be included in the exhibit ``Gifts of the Nile: Ancient Egyptian 
Faience'' (see list \1\), imported from the Petrie Museum of Egyptian 
Archaeology, England for the temporary exhibition without profit within 
the United States, are of cultural significance. These objects are 
imported pursuant to a loan agreement with the foreign lender. I also 
determine that the exhibition or display of the listed exhibit objects 
at The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio from on or about May 
10, 1998, to on or about July 5, 1998, and Museum of Art, Rhode Island 
School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island from on or about August 24, 
1998, to on or about January 3, 1999, and Kimbell Art Museum, Fort 
Worth, Texas from on or about January 31, 1999, to on or about April 
25, 1999, is in the national interest. Public Notice of these 
determinations is ordered to be published in the Federal Register.

    \1\ A copy of this list may be obtained by contacting Mr. Paul 
W. Manning, Assistant General Counsel, at 202/619-5997, and the 
address is Room 700, U.S. Information Agency, 301 Fourth Street, 
S.W., Washington, DC 20547-0001.
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    Dated: February 19, 1998.
Les Jin,
General Counsel.
[FR Doc. 98-4839 Filed 2-24-98; 8:45 am]
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