[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 201 (Friday, October 17, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Page 54156]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-27591]


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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, ``Flowers Underfoot: Indian Carpets of the 
Mughal Era'' (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, New York, New York, from on or about November 17, 1997, to on or 
about March 1, 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 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: October 10, 1997.
Les Jin,
General Counsel.
[FR Doc. 97-27591 Filed 10-16-97; 8:45 am]
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