Culturually Significant Objects Imported for Exhibition Determinations: 'Watteau, Music, and Theater'

Federal Register: June 16, 2009 (Volume 74, Number 114)

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DEPARTMENT OF STATE

Public Notice 6663

Culturally Significant Objects Imported for Exhibition

Determinations: ``Watteau, Music, and Theater''

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 ``Watteau, Music, and Theater,'' imported from abroad for temporary exhibition within the United States, are of cultural significance. The objects are imported

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pursuant to loan agreements with the foreign owners or custodians. I also determine that the exhibition or display of the exhibit objects at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, from on or about

September 21, 2009, until on or about November 29, 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 Carol B. Epstein, Attorney-

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

(telephone: 202/453-8048). The address is U.S. Department of State, SA- 44, 301 4th Street, SW., Room 700, Washington, DC 20547-0001.

Dated: June 10, 2009.

3. Miller Crouch,

Acting Assistant Secretary for Educational and Cultural Affairs,

Department of State.

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