[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 114 (Wednesday, June 13, 2018)]
[Notices]
[Pages 27647-27648]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2018-12721]


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DEPARTMENT OF STATE

[Public Notice: 10452]


Notice of Determinations; Culturally Significant Object Imported 
for Exhibition Determinations: Exhibition of the ``Wagner Garden 
Carpet''

SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given of the following determinations: I 
hereby determine that a certain object, entitled the ``Wagner Garden 
Carpet,'' to be exhibited in the Department of Islamic Art of The 
Metropolitan Museum of Art and at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and 
imported from abroad for temporary exhibition within the United States, 
is of cultural significance. The object is imported pursuant to loan 
agreements 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, New York, from on or about July 10, 2018, 
until on or about October 7, 2018, at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 
in Houston, Texas, from on or about November 2, 2018, until on or about 
March 24, 2019, 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: Julie Simpson, Attorney-Adviser, 
Office of the Legal Adviser, U.S. Department of State (telephone: 202-
632-6471; email: [email protected]). The mailing address is U.S. 
Department of State, L/PD, SA-5, Suite 5H03, Washington, DC 20522-0505.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The foregoing determinations were made 
pursuant to the authority vested in me

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by the Act of October 19, 1965 (79 Stat. 985; 22 U.S.C. 2459), E.O. 
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, and Delegation of 
Authority No. 236-3 of August 28, 2000.

Marie Therese Porter Royce,
Assistant Secretary for Educational and Cultural Affairs, Department of 
State.
[FR Doc. 2018-12721 Filed 6-12-18; 8:45 am]
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