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Scholarship grant while they were 

abroad; study the ways in which they 

shared what they learned with family, 

peers, and other community members 

upon returning to the United States; and 

investigate whether the international 

experience factored into their 

subsequent educational and 

professional choices. This study is 

authorized by the Mutual Educational 

and Cultural Exchange Act of 1961, as 

amended (also known as the FulbrightHays Act) (22 U.S.C. 2451 et seq.). The 

survey will be sent electronically to all 

grant recipients who studied abroad 

during the nine-year period spanning 

the 2002/2003 and 2010/2011 academic 

years. Data gathered will enable analysis 

that can potentially be used to design 

new programs, improve existing 

programs, and to inform ongoing and 

future activities. 

Methodology 

The survey will be entirely web-based 

to ease any burden on the participant. 

The survey will be distributed and 

responses received electronically using 

the survey application SurveyGizmo. 

Dated: February 28, 2013. 

Matt Lussenhop, 

Director of the Office of Policy and 

Evaluation, Bureau of Educational and 

Cultural Affairs, Department of State. 

[FR Doc. 2013–05655 Filed 3–11–13; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4710–05–P 

DEPARTMENT OF STATE 

[Public Notice 8217] 

Culturally Significant Objects Imported 

for Exhibition Determinations: ‘‘Hans 

Richter: Encounters’’ 

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. 236–3 of August 28, 2000 

(and, as appropriate, Delegation of 

Authority No. 257 of April 15, 2003), I 

hereby determine that the objects to be 

included in the exhibition ‘‘Hans 

Richter: Encounters,’’ 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 Los Angeles 

County Museum of Art in Los Angeles, 

California from on or about May 5, 2013, 

until on or about September 2, 2013, 

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 Ona M. 

Hahs, Attorney-Adviser, Office of the 

Legal Adviser, U.S. Department of State 

(telephone: 202–632–6473). The mailing 

address is U.S. Department of State, SA– 

5, L/PD, Fifth Floor (Suite 5H03), 

Washington, DC 20522–0505. 

Dated: March 5, 2013. 

J. Adam Ereli, 

Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau 

of Educational and Cultural Affairs, 

Department of State. 

[FR Doc. 2013–05652 Filed 3–11–13; 8:45 am] 

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OFFICE OF THE UNITED STATES 

TRADE REPRESENTATIVE 

United States-Israel Free Trade Area 

Implementation Act; Re-Designation of 

Qualifying Industrial Zones 

AGENCY: Office of the United States 

Trade Representative. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: Under the United States-Israel 

Free Trade Area Implementation Act 

(IFTA Act), articles of qualifying 

industrial zones (QIZs) encompassing 

portions of Israel and Jordan or Israel 

and Egypt are eligible to receive dutyfree treatment. Effective upon 

publication of this notice, the United 

States Trade Representative, pursuant to 

authority delegated by the President, is 

modifying the designation of the 

previously-designated Al Minya, 

Alexandria, Beni Suief, Central Delta, 

Greater Cairo, and Suez Canal zones in 

Egypt under the IFTA Act to provide 

that all present and future facilities in 

these zones are potentially able to 

export goods duty-free to the United 

States. This modification would also 

clarify and, in some cases, adjust the 

geographic boundaries of the QIZs. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Sonia Franceski, Director for Middle 

East Affairs, (202) 395–4987, Office of 

the United States Trade Representative, 

600 17th Street NW., Washington, DC 

20508. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Pursuant 

to authority granted under section 9 of 

the United States-Israel Free Trade Area 

Implementation Act of 1985 (IFTA Act), 

as amended (19 U.S.C. 2112 note), 

Presidential Proclamation 6955 of 

November 13, 1996 (61 FR 58761) 

proclaimed certain tariff treatment for 

articles of the West Bank, the Gaza 

Strip, and qualifying industrial zones. In 

particular, the Presidential Proclamation 

modified general notes 3 and 8 of the 

Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the 

United States: (a) To provide duty-free 

treatment to qualifying articles that are 

the product of the West Bank, the Gaza 

Strip, or a qualifying industrial zone 

and are entered in accordance with the 

provisions of section 9 of the IFTA Act; 

(b) to provide that articles of Israel may 

be treated as though they were articles 

directly shipped from Israel for 

purposes of the United States-Israel Free 

Trade Area Agreement (‘‘the 

Agreement’’) even if shipped to the 

United States from the West Bank, the 

Gaza Strip, or a qualifying industrial 

zone, if the articles otherwise meet the 

requirements of the Agreement; and (c) 

to provide that the cost or value of 

materials produced in the West Bank, 

the Gaza Strip, or a qualifying industrial 

zone may be included in the cost or 

value of materials produced in Israel 

under section 1(c)(i) of Annex 3 of the 

Agreement and that the direct costs of 

processing operations performed in the 

West Bank, the Gaza Strip, or a 

qualifying industrial zone may be 

included in the direct costs of 

processing operations performed in 

Israel under section 1(c)(ii) of Annex 3 

of the Agreement. 

Section 9(e) of the IFTA Act defines 

a ‘‘qualifying industrial zone’’ as an area 

that ‘‘(1) encompasses portions of the 

territory of Israel and Jordan or Israel 

and Egypt; (2) has been designated by 

local authorities as an enclave where 

merchandise may enter without 

payment of duty or excise taxes; and (3) 

has been specified by the President as 

a qualifying industrial zone.’’ 

Presidential Proclamation 6955 

delegated to the United States Trade 

Representative the authority to 

designate qualifying industrial zones. 

The United States Trade 

Representative has previously 

designated six qualifying industrial 

zones in Egypt under Section 9 of the 

IFTA Act, on March 13, 1998 (63 FR 

12572), March 19, 1999 (64 FR 13623), 

October 15, 1999 (64 FR 56015), October 

24, 2000 (65 FR 64472), and December 

12, 2000 (65 FR 77688), June 15, 2001 

(66 FR 32660) January 28, 2004 (69 FR 

4199), December 29, 2004 (69 FR 

78094), November 16, 2005 (70 FR 

69622) and January 28, 2009 (74 FR 

4482). In each of those designations, the 

USTR designated as qualifying 

industrial zones the areas occupied by 

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