[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 87 (Tuesday, May 6, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Page 24687]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-11867]


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UNITED STATES INFORMATION AGENCY


Culturally Significant Objects Imported for Exhibition; Notice

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 USC 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, ``The Padshahnama (History of the Emperor)'' 
(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 Arthur M. Sackler, Smithsonian 
Institution from on or about May 18, 1997 to on or about October 13, 
1997, and at the Metropolitan Museum of Art from on or about November 
16, 1997 to on or about February 8, 1998, and at Los Angeles County 
Museum of Art from on or about February 22, 1998 to on or about May 17, 
1998, and at the Kimbell Art Museum from on or about May 31, 1998 to on 
or about August 23, 1998, and at the Indianapolis Museum of Art from on 
or about September 6, 1998 to on or about November 29, 1998, 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 Mrs. 
Jacqueline H. Caldwell, Assistant General Counsel, at 202/619-6982, 
and the address is Room 700, U.S. Information Agency, 301 Fourth 
Street, SW., Washington, DC 20547-0001.
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    Dated: May 2, 1997.
Les Jin,
General Counsel.
[FR Doc. 97-11867 Filed 5-2-97; 12:55 pm]
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