[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 6 (Monday, January 10, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Page 1748]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 05-433]


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DEPARTMENT OF STATE

[Public Notice 4953]


Culturally Significant Objects Imported for Exhibition; 
Determinations: ``From Filippo Lippi to Piero della Francesca: Fra 
Carnevale and the Making of a Renaissance Master''

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 [64 FR 56014], Delegation of 
Authority No. 236 of October 19, 1999 [64 FR 57920], 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, 
``From Filippo Lippi to Piero della Francesca: Fra Carnevale and the 
Making of a Renaissance Master,'' imported from abroad for temporary 
exhibition within the United States, are of cultural significance. The 
objects are imported pursuant to loan agreements with the foreign 
lenders. I also determine that the exhibition or display of the exhibit 
objects at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York, from on 
or about January 31, 2005, to on or about May 1, 2005, 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 or a listing 
of objects, contact Paul W. Manning, Attorney-Adviser, Office of the 
Legal Adviser, 202/619-5997, and the address is United States 
Department of State, SA-44, Room 668-10, 301 4th Street, SW., 
Washington, DC 20547-0001.

    Dated: December 22, 2004.
C. Miller Crouch,
Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Educational and Cultural 
Affairs, Department of State.
[FR Doc. 05-433 Filed 1-7-05; 8:45 am]
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