[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 179 (Tuesday, September 16, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Page 48712]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-24679]


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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 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, ``Renoir's Portraits: Impressions of an Age'' 
(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 Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago 
Illinois from on or about October 16, 1997 to on or about January 4, 
1998, and at the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas from on or 
about February 8, 1998 to on or about April 26, 1998, is in the 
national interest. Public Notice of these determinations is ordered to 
be published in the Federal Register.
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    \1\ A copy of this list may be obtained by contacting Ms. 
Jacqueline H. Caldwell, Esq., Assistant General Counsel, at 202/619-
6975, and the address is Room 700, U.S. Information Agency, 301 
Fourth Street, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20547-0001.

    Dated: September 11, 1997.
Les Jin,
General Counsel.
[FR Doc. 97-24679 Filed 9-12-97; 12:24 pm]
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