[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 186 (Monday, September 27, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Page 57746]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-21612]


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DEPARTMENT OF STATE

[Public Notice 4839]


Culturally Significant Objects Imported for Exhibition

    Determinations: ``Nineteenth-Century European Paintings Galleries''
    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 ``Nineteenth-Century European 
Paintings Galleries,'' imported from abroad for temporary exhibition 
within the United States, are of cultural 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 in late September 2004, for 
two years, 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: September 21, 2004.
C. Miller Crouch,
Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Educational and Cultural 
Affairs, Department of State.
[FR Doc. 04-21612 Filed 9-24-04; 8:45 am]
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