[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 119 (Monday, June 22, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Page 33989]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-16446]



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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 ``Sacred Visions: Early Painting from Tibet'' 
(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 loan agreements 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 October 5, 1998, to on or about January 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. Neila 
Sheahan, Assistant General Counsel, at 202/619-5030, and the address 
is Room 700, U.S. Information Agency, 301 Fourth Street, SW, 
Washington, DC 20547-0001.
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    Dated: June 16, 1998.

Les Jin,
General Counsel.
[FR Doc. 98-16446 Filed 6-19-98; 8:45 am]
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