[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 13 (Friday, January 21, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Page 3242]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 05-1136]


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DEPARTMENT OF STATE

[Public Notice 4957]


Culturally Significant Objects Imported for Exhibition 
Determinations: ``Defining Yongle: Imperial Art in Early Fifteenth-
Century China''

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, 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 ``Defining Yongle: Imperial Art in Early 
Fifteenth-Century China,'' 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, New York, from on 
or about April 1, 2005, to on or about July 10, 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, including a 
list of the exhibit objects, contact Wolodymyr R. Sulzynsky, the Office 
of the Legal Adviser, Department of State, (telephone: 202/453-8050). 
The address is Department of State, SA-44, 301 4th Street, SW., Room 
700, Washington, DC 20547-0001.

    Dated: January 11, 2005.
C. Miller Crouch,
Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Educational and Cultural 
Affairs, Department of State.
[FR Doc. 05-1136 Filed 1-19-05; 8:45 am]
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