Culturally Significant Objects Imported for Exhibition Determinations: Roy Lichtenstein's Girl with Tear III

Federal Register: June 18, 2008 (Volume 73, Number 118)

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DEPARTMENT OF STATE

Public Notice 6266

Culturally Significant Objects Imported for Exhibition

Determinations: ``Roy Lichtenstein's Girl With Tear III''

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 object to be included in the exhibition ``Roy Lichtenstein's Girl with Tear III,'' imported from abroad for temporary exhibition within the United States, is of cultural significance. The object is imported pursuant to a loan agreement with the foreign owner or custodian. I also determine that the exhibition or display of the exhibit object at The Metropolitan

Museum of Art, New York, NY, from on or about July 1, 2008, until on or about September 20, 2008, 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 object, contact Julie Simpson, 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.

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Dated: June 11, 2008.

3. Miller Crouch,

Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Educational and Cultural

Affairs, Department of State.

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