[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 19 (Wednesday, January 29, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Page 4379]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-2235]


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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, ``The Glory of Byzantium'' (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 exhibition or display of the listed exhibit objects 
at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, New York, from on or 
about March 3, 1997 to on or about July 6, 1997, 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 Ms. Carol 
B. Epstein, Assistant General Counsel, at 202/619-6981, 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: January 23, 1997.
Les Jin,
General Counsel.
[FR Doc. 97-2235 Filed 1-28-97; 8:45 am]
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