[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 106 (Monday, June 2, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Pages 31533-31534]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-12252]


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DEPARTMENT OF STATE

[Public Notice 6239]


Culturally Significant Objects Imported for Exhibition 
Determinations: ``The Tsar and the President: Alexander II and Abraham 
Lincoln''

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

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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 
``The Tsar and the President: Alexander II and Abraham Lincoln,'' 
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 owners or custodians. I also determine that 
the exhibition or display of the exhibit objects at the Oshkosh Public 
Museum, Oshkosh, Wisconsin, from on or about July 12, 2008, until on or 
about October 12, 2008, and at the Union Station Kansas City Museum, 
Kansas City, Missouri, from on or about November 1, 2008, until on or 
about April 19, 2009, and at possible additional exhibitions or venues 
yet to be determined, is in the national interest. Public Notice of 
these Determinations is ordered to be published in the Federal 
Register.
    This notice supersedes the notice that was published on pages 
28544-28545 of the Federal Register (Volume 73, Number 96), Friday, May 
16, 2008, of determinations made by the Department of State pertaining 
to the exhibit, ``The Tsar and the President: Alexander II and Abraham 
Lincoln.''

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For further information, including a 
list of the exhibit objects, contact Wolodymyr Sulzynsky, Attorney-
Adviser, Office of the Legal Adviser, U.S. Department of State 
(telephone: 202/453-8050). The address is U.S. Department of State, SA-
44, 301 4th Street, SW., Room 700, Washington, DC 20547-0001.

    Dated: May 27, 2008.
C. Miller Crouch,
Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Educational and Cultural 
Affairs, Department of State.
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