[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 95 (Wednesday, May 17, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Page 31577]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2023-10441]


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DEPARTMENT OF STATE

[Public Notice: 12072]


Notice of Determinations; Culturally Significant Objects Being 
Imported for Exhibition--Determinations: ``Tree and Serpent: Early 
Buddhist Art in India, 200 B.C.E.-400 C.E.'' Exhibition

SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given of the following determinations: I 
hereby determine that certain objects being imported from abroad 
pursuant to agreements with their foreign owners or custodians for 
temporary display in the exhibition ``Tree and Serpent: Early Buddhist 
Art in India, 200 B.C.E.-400 C.E.'' at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 
New York, New York, and at possible additional exhibitions or venues 
yet to be determined, are of cultural significance, and, further, that 
their temporary exhibition or display within the United States as 
aforementioned is in the national interest. I have ordered that Public 
Notice of these determinations be published in the Federal Register.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Elliot Chiu, Attorney-Adviser, 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, 2200 C Street NW (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), E.O. 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. 236-3 of August 28, 
2000, and Delegation of Authority No. 523 of December 22, 2021.

Scott Weinhold,
Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Educational and Cultural 
Affairs, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, Department of 
State.
[FR Doc. 2023-10441 Filed 5-16-23; 8:45 am]
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