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respect to Burma. In addition, the 

Department of State will use the 

collection as a basis to conduct 

informed consultations with U.S. 

businesses to encourage and assist such 

businesses to develop robust policies 

and procedures to address any potential 

adverse human rights, worker rights, 

anti-corruption, environmental, or other 

impacts resulting from their investments 

and operations in Burma. The 

Department of State will use the 

collection of information about new 

investment with the Myanmar Oil and 

Gas Enterprise (MOGE) to track 

investment that involves MOGE and to 

identify investors with whom it may be 

beneficial to have targeted consultation 

on anti-corruption and human rights 

policies. The public, including civil 

society actors in Burma, may use 

publicly available information resulting 

from the collection to engage U.S. 

businesses on their responsible 

investment policies and procedures and 

to monitor the Burmese government’s 

management of revenues from 

investment. 

U.S. persons to whom this 

requirement applies will be required to 

submit a version of the report to the U.S. 

Government for public release, from 

which information considered in good 

faith to be exempt from disclosure 

under FOIA Exemption 4—i.e. trade 

secrets or commercial or financial 

information that is privileged or 

confidential—may be withheld. The 

Department of State will make this 

version of the report publically available 

in order to promote transparency with 

respect to new U.S. investments in 

Burma. In the past, the absence of 

transparency or publicly available 

information with respect to foreign 

investment activities in Burma has 

contributed to corruption and misuse of 

public funds, the erosion of public trust, 

and social unrest in ethnic minority 

areas and has led to further human 

rights abuses and repression by the 

government and military. Public 

disclosure of certain aspects of the 

collection therefore will promote the 

policy of transparency through new U.S. 

investment, a key U.S. foreign policy 

objective in Burma. 

Burmese civil society groups, 

particularly those representing ethnic 

minority communities, have requested 

that the Department of State make 

public certain information obtained 

through the collection on investments 

purportedly made for the benefit of the 

Burmese people, as a means of holding 

their own government accountable. 

Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San 

Suu Kyi, leader of Burma’s democratic 

opposition party and recently elected to 

a seat in Burma’s parliament, also 

underscored the importance of 

transparency in her recent remarks in 

Bangkok, noting that she did not want 

‘‘more investment to mean more 

possibilities for corruption.’’ This was 

among the most specific of the 

recommendations she made to the 

international community, stressing that 

‘‘Transparency is very important if we 

are going to avoid problems in the 

future* * * So whatever investments, 

governmental agreements, whatever aid 

might be proposed, please make sure 

that it is transparent, that the people of 

Burma are in a position to understand 

what has been done, and how and for 

whom the benefits are intended.’’ 

Therefore public release of portions of 

this collection is aimed at providing 

civil society this type of information to 

both ensure the transparency of U.S. 

investment in Burma and to encourage 

civil society to partner with their 

government and U.S. companies 

towards building responsible 

investment, which ultimately promotes 

U.S. foreign policy goals. 

Dated: February 11, 2013. 

Daniel Baer, 

Deputy Assistant Secretary, Department of 

State. 

[FR Doc. 2013–04032 Filed 2–20–13; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4710–18–P 

DEPARTMENT OF STATE 

[Public Notice 8192] 

Advisory Committee on Historical 

Diplomatic Documentation; Notice of 

Charter Renewal 

The Advisory Committee on 

Historical Diplomatic Documentation is 

renewing its charter for a period of two 

years. This Advisory Committee will 

continue to make recommendations to 

the Historian and the Department of 

State on all aspects of the Department’s 

program to publish the Foreign 

Relations of the United States series as 

well as on the Department’s 

responsibility under statute (22 U.S.C. 

4351, et seq.) to open its 30-year old and 

older records for public review at the 

National Archives and Records 

Administration. The Committee consists 

of nine members drawn from among 

historians, political scientists, 

archivists, international lawyers, and 

other social scientists who are 

distinguished in the field of U.S. foreign 

relations. 

Questions concerning the Committee 

and the renewal of its Charter should be 

directed to Stephen P. Randolph, 

Executive Secretary, Advisory 

Committee on Historical Diplomatic 

Documentation, Department of State, 

Office of the Historian, Washington, DC, 

20520, telephone (202) 663–1123 (email 

history@state.gov). 

Dated: February 14, 2013. 

Colby Prevost, 

Designated Federal Officer, Advisory 

Committee on Historical Diplomatic 

Documentation, Department of State. 

[FR Doc. 2013–04009 Filed 2–20–13; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4710–11–P 

DEPARTMENT OF STATE 

[Public Notice 8194] 

Culturally Significant Objects Imported 

for Exhibition Determinations: ‘‘Temple 

and Tomb: Prehistoric Malta’’ 

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. 236–3 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 ‘‘Temple and 

Tomb: Prehistoric Malta,’’ imported 

from abroad for temporary exhibition 

within the United States, are of cultural 

significance. The objects are imported 

pursuant to a loan agreement with the 

foreign owner or custodian. I also 

determine that the exhibition or display 

of the exhibit objects at the Institute for 

the Study of the Ancient World, New 

York University, New York, NY, from 

on or about March 20, 2013, until on or 

about July 7, 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 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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