Culturally Significant Objects Imported for Exhibition Determinations: Sacred Spain; Art and Belief in the Spanish World

Federal Register: September 3, 2009 (Volume 74, Number 170)

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DEPARTMENT OF STATE

Public Notice 6756

Culturally Significant Objects Imported for Exhibition

Determinations: ``Sacred Spain: Art and Belief in the Spanish World''

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 ``Sacred Spain: Art and Belief in the

Spanish World,'' 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 Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN, from on or about October 11, 2009, until on or about January 3, 2010, 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 Carol B. Epstein, Attorney-

Adviser, Office of the Legal Adviser, U.S. Department of State

(telephone: 202/632-6473). The address is U.S. Department of State, SA- 5, L/PD, Fifth Floor, Washington, DC 20522-0505.

Dated: August 27, 2009.

Maura M. Pally,

Deputy Assistant Secretary for Professional and Cultural Exchanges,

Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, Department of State.

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