[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 40 (Friday, February 28, 2020)]
[Notices]
[Pages 12046-12047]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-04093]


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DEPARTMENT OF STATE

[Public Notice: 11055]


Notice of Determinations; Culturally Significant Objects Re-
Imported for Exhibition--Determinations: ``Caravans of Gold, Fragments 
in Time: Art, Culture, and Exchange Across Medieval Saharan Africa'' 
Exhibition

SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given of the following determinations: I 
hereby determine that certain objects included in the exhibition 
``Caravans of Gold, Fragments in Time: Art, Culture, and Exchange 
across Medieval Saharan Africa,'' being re-imported from abroad for 
temporary exhibition within the United States, are of cultural 
significance. The objects are re-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 National Museum of 
African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, District of

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Columbia, from on or about April 8, 2020, until on or about November 
29, 2020, and at possible additional exhibitions or venues yet to be 
determined, is in the national interest. I have ordered that Public 
Notice of these determinations be published in the Federal Register.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Chi D. Tran, Program Administrator, 
Office of the Legal Adviser, U.S. Department of State (telephone: 202-
632-6471; email: [email protected]). The mailing address is U.S. 
Department of State, L/PD, SA-5, Suite 5H03, Washington, DC 20522-0505.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The foregoing determinations were made 
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. 
236-3 of August 28, 2000.

Marie Therese Porter Royce,
Assistant Secretary, Educational and Cultural Affairs, Department of 
State.
[FR Doc. 2020-04093 Filed 2-27-20; 8:45 am]
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