Culturally Significant Objects Imported for Exhibition Determinations: Vienna Circa 1780: An Imperial Silver Service Rediscovered

Federal Register: February 26, 2010 (Volume 75, Number 38)

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DEPARTMENT OF STATE

Public Notice 6908

Culturally Significant Objects Imported for Exhibition

Determinations: ``Vienna Circa 1780: An Imperial Silver Service

Rediscovered''

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 ``Vienna Circa 1780: An Imperial Silver

Service Rediscovered,'' 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 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, from on or about April 13, 2010, until on or about November 7, 2010, and at possible additional exhibitions or venues yet to be determined, is in the national interest. I have ordered that Public Notice of these

Determinations be published in the Federal Register.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For further information, including a list of the exhibit objects, contact Julie Simpson, Attorney-Adviser,

Office of the Legal Adviser, U.S. Department of State (telephone: 202- 632-6467). The mailing address is U.S. Department of State, SA-5, L/PD,

Fifth Floor (Suite 5H03), Washington, DC 20522-0505.

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Dated: February 23, 2010.

Maura M. Pally,

Deputy Assistant Secretary for Professional and Cultural Exchanges,

Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, Department of State.

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