[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 169 (Thursday, August 29, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Page 45473]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-22096]


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UNITED STATES INFORMATION AGENCY


Culturally Significant Objects Imported for Exhibition; 
Determination

    Notice is hereby given of the following determination: 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 FR 
13359, March 29, 1978), and Delegation Order No. 85-5 of June 27, 1985 
(50 FR 27393, July 2, 1985), I hereby determine that the objects to be 
included in the exhibit, ``Corot'' (See list 1), imported from 
abroad 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 lenders. I also determine 
that the temporary exhibition or display of the listed exhibit objects 
at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, New York from on or 
about October 21, 1996, to on or about January 19, 1997, is in the 
national interest. Public Notice of this determination is ordered to be 
published in the Federal Register.

    \1\ A copy of this list may be obtained by contacting Mrs. 
Jacqueline H. Caldwell, Assistant General Counsel, at 202/619-6982, 
and the address is Room 700, U.S. Information Agency, 301 Fourth 
Street, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20547-0001.
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    Dated: August 23, 1996.
Les Jin,
General Counsel.
[FR Doc. 96-22096 Filed 8-28-96; 8:45 am]
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