[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 17 (Thursday, January 27, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Pages 3959-3960]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 05-1525]


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DEPARTMENT OF STATE

[Public Notice 4975]


Culturally Significant Objects Imported for Exhibition 
Determinations: ``Max Ernst: A Retrospective''

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.

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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, ``Max Ernst: A Retrospective,'' 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 April 4, 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 or a list of 
exhibit objects, contact Paul W. Manning, Attorney-Adviser, Office of 
the Legal Adviser, (202) 453-8052, and the address is United States 
Department of State, SA-44, Room 700, 301 4th Street, SW., Washington, 
DC 20547-0001.

    Dated: January 21, 2005.
C. Miller Crouch,
Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Educational and Cultural 
Affairs, Department of State.
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