[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 133 (Monday, July 13, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 37624-37625]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-18559]


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UNITED STATES INFORMATION AGENCY


Art Objects; Importation for Exhibition; Jade in Ancient Costa 
Rica

AGENCY: United States Information Agency.

SUBJECT: Culturally Significant Objects Imported for Exhibition 
Determinations.

SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given of the following determinations: 
Pursuant to the authority vested in me by the Act of

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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, 1975).

ACTION: I hereby determine that the objects on the list specified 
below, to be included in the exhibit, ``Jade in Ancient Costa Rica,'' 
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, in New York, New York, from on or 
about September 15, 1998, to on or about February 28, 1999, is in the 
national interest. Public Notice of these determinations is ordered to 
be published in the Federal Register.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Jacqueline Caldwell, Assistant General Counsel, Office of the General 
Counsel, 202/619-6982, and the address is Room 700, U.S. Information 
Agency, 301 4th Street, SW, Washington, DC 20547-0001.

    Dated: July 8, 1998.
Les Jin,
General Counsel.
[FR Doc. 98-18559 Filed 7-10-98; 8:45 am]
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