[Federal Register: December 12, 2005 (Volume 70, Number 237)]
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DEPARTMENT OF STATE

[Public Notice 5243]

 
Culturally Significant Object Imported for Exhibition; 
Determinations: ``Portraits of a People: Picturing African Americans in 
the Nineteenth Century'

    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, and 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 Portraits of a People: Picturing 
African Americans in the Nineteenth Century,'' 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 lender. I also determine that the exhibition or display of 
the exhibit object at the Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA 
from on or about January 14, 2006 to on or about March 14, 2006, 
Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE from on or about April 21, 2006 to 
on or about July 16, 2006, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA 
from on or about August 25, 2006 to on or about November 26, 2006, and 
at possible additional 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 
the exhibit object, contact Carol B. Epstein, Attorney-Adviser, Office 
of the Legal Adviser, Department of State, (telephone: 202/453-8048). 
The address is Department of State, SA-44, 301 4th Street, SW., Room 
700, Washington, DC 20547-0001.

    Dated: December 5, 2005.
C. Miller Crouch,
Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Educational and Cultural 
Affairs, Department of State.
[FR Doc. 05-23918 Filed 12-9-05; 8:45 am]

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