[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 168 (Friday, August 29, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Pages 52066-52067]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-22149]


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DEPARTMENT OF STATE

[Public Notice 4461]


Culturally Significant Objects Imported for Exhibition 
Determinations: ``Turning Point: Oribe and the Arts of Sixteenth-
Century Japan''

AGENCY: Department of State.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: 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, the Foreign Affairs Reform and Restructuring Act of 1998 (112 
Stat. 2681, et seq.; 22 U.S.C. 6501 note, et seq.), Delegation of 
Authority No. 234 of October 1, 1999, and Delegation of Authority No. 
236 of October 19, 1999, as amended, and Delegation of Authority No. 
257 of April 15, 2003 (68 FR 19875), I hereby determine that the 
objects to be included in the exhibition ``Turning Point: Oribe and the 
Arts of Sixteenth-Century Japan,'' imported from abroad for temporary 
exhibition within the United States, are of cultural

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significance. The objects are imported pursuant to a loan agreement 
with the foreign owner. I also determine that the exhibition or display 
of the exhibit objects at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, 
from on or about October 20, 2003, to on or about January 11, 2004, and 
at possible additional venues yet to be determined, is in the national 
interest. Public Notice of these Determinations is ordered to be 
published in the Federal Register.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For further information, including a 
list of the exhibit objects, contact Carol B. Epstein, Attorney-
Adviser, Office of the Legal Adviser, Department of State, (telephone: 
202/619-6981). The address is Department of State, SA-44, 301 4th 
Street, SW., Room 700, Washington, DC 20547-0001.

    Dated: August 25, 2003.
C. Miller Crouch,
Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Educational and Cultural 
Affairs, Department of State.
[FR Doc. 03-22149 Filed 8-28-03; 8:45 am]
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