Culturally Significant Objects Imported for Exhibition Determinations: Museums of Berlin and the Legacy of James Simon

Federal Register: August 26, 2008 (Volume 73, Number 166)

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DEPARTMENT OF STATE

Public Notice 6331

Culturally Significant Objects Imported for Exhibition

Determinations: ``The Museums of Berlin and the Legacy of James Simon''

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 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 Museums of Berlin and the Legacy of

James Simon'', 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 Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Legion of Honor, San Francisco,

California, from on or about October 18, 2008, until on or about

January 18, 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.

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

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address is U.S. Department of State, SA-44, 301 4th Street, SW., Room 700, Washington, DC 20547-0001.

Dated: August 18, 2008.

3. Miller Crouch,

Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Educational and Cultural

Affairs, Department of State.

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