[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 99 (Friday, May 22, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Page 28452]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-13767]


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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 on the 
list specified below, to be included in the exhibit, ``Letters in Gold: 
Ottoman Calligraphy from the Sakip Sabanci Collection, Istanbul (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 September 10, 1998, to on or about December 13, 1998, 
and at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California, 
from on or about February 25, 1999, to on or about May 17, 1999, 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. 
Jacqueline Caldwell, Assistant General Counsel, at 202/619-6982, and 
the address is Room 700, U.S. Information Agency, 301 4th Street, 
SW, Washington, DC 20547-0001.
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    Dated: May 13, 1998.
Les Jin,
General Counsel.
[FR Doc. 98-13767 Filed 5-21-98; 8:45 am]
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