[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 120 (Monday, June 22, 2020)]
[Notices]
[Pages 37491-37492]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-13340]


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DEPARTMENT OF STATE

[Public Notice 11140]


Modified Display Dates Due to the COVID-19 Pandemic, for 
Culturally Significant Objects Imported for Exhibition

SUMMARY: The Department understands that, due to museum closures and 
other effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, many exhibition venues 
throughout the United States are modifying the dates of exhibitions for 
which they had already

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imported certain objects that I or another Department official with 
delegated authority under 22 U.S.C. 2459 had determined, prior to 
importation, are of cultural significance and whose temporary 
exhibition or display is in the national interest. I hereby confirm 
that if the national interest determination contained in a Federal 
Register Notice for such objects noted the possibility of display at 
``additional exhibitions or venues to be determined'' following the 
approximate (i.e., ``on or about'') dates of exhibition at the venue or 
venues stated in the Notice, the Department official's intention was to 
make determinations that would continue through a reasonable period of 
temporary display--including at the originally stated venue or venues--
not necessarily limited to the dates of exhibition referenced in the 
Notice. As such, the Department regards its determinations of cultural 
significance and national interest made upon such objects prior to 
their importation as remaining valid through a reasonable but 
originally unforeseen extension of the objects' display due to the 
COVID-19 pandemic.

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.

Marie Therese Porter Royce,
Assistant Secretary, Educational and Cultural Affairs, Department of 
State.
[FR Doc. 2020-13340 Filed 6-19-20; 8:45 am]
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