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instructions on how to observe or 

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session at https://eca.state.gov/ 

highlight/cultural-property-advisorycommittee-meeting-february-4-6-2025. 

Register to speak at the open session 

by sending an email with your name 

and organizational affiliation, as well as 

any requests for reasonable 

accommodation, by January 27, 2025. 

Those who submit written comments in 

advance of the meeting are not required 

to make an oral comment during the 

open session. 

The Committee will review written 

comments if received by 11:59 p.m. 

(EST) on January 27, 2025. Written 

comments may be submitted in two 

ways, depending on whether they 

contain confidential information: 

General Comments: For general 

comments, use https://

www.regulations.gov, enter the docket 

DOS–2024–0048 and follow the 

prompts. 

Confidential Comments: For 

comments that contain privileged or 

confidential information (within the 

meaning of 19 U.S.C. 2605(i)(1)), please 

email submissions to culprop@state.gov. 

Include ‘‘Vietnam,’’ ‘‘Chile,’’ ‘‘Italy,’’ 

and/or ‘‘Morocco’’ in the subject line. 

Disclaimer: The Cultural Heritage 

Center website contains additional 

information about each agenda item, 

including categories of archaeological 

and ethnological material that may be 

included in import restrictions: https:// 

eca.state.gov/highlight/culturalproperty-advisory-committee-meetingfebruary-4-6-2025. Comments should 

relate specifically to the determinations 

specified in the Act at 19 U.S.C. 

2602(a)(1). Written comments submitted 

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comments to remove any identifying or 

contact information and that they 

therefore should not include any such 

information in their comments that they 

do not want publicly disclosed. 

Allison R. Davis Lehmann, 

Executive Director, Cultural Property 

Advisory Committee, Department of State. 

[FR Doc. 2024–31255 Filed 12–27–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4710–05–P 

DEPARTMENT OF STATE 

[Public Notice: 12620] 

Notice of Determinations; Culturally 

Significant Objects Being Imported for 

Exhibition—Determinations: 

‘‘Recasting the Past: The Art of 

Chinese Bronzes, 1100–1900’’ 

Exhibition 

SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given of the 

following determinations: I hereby 

determine that certain objects being 

imported from abroad pursuant to 

agreements with their foreign owners or 

custodians for temporary display in the 

exhibition ‘‘Recasting the Past: The Art 

of Chinese Bronzes, 1100–1900’’ at The 

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 

New York, and at possible additional 

exhibitions or venues yet to be 

determined, are of cultural significance, 

and, further, that their temporary 

exhibition or display within the United 

States as aforementioned is in the 

national interest. I have ordered that 

Public Notice of these determinations be 

published in the Federal Register. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Reed Liriano, Program Coordinator, 

Office of the Legal Adviser, U.S. 

Department of State (telephone: 202– 

632–6471; email: section2459@

state.gov). The mailing address is U.S. 

Department of State, L/PD, 2200 C Street 

NW (SA–5), Suite 5H03, Washington, 

DC 20522–0505. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

foregoing determinations were made 

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 Delegation of 

Authority No. 523 of December 22, 

2021. 

Nicole L. Elkon, 

Deputy Assistant Secretary for Professional 

and Cultural Exchanges, Bureau of 

Educational and Cultural Affairs, Department 

of State. 

[FR Doc. 2024–30962 Filed 12–27–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4710–05–P 

DEPARTMENT OF STATE 

[Public Notice: 12621] 

Notice of Receipt of Request From the 

Government of the Socialist Republic 

of Vietnam 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: Notice of receipt of request 

from Vietnam for cultural property 

protection. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Anne Compton, Cultural Heritage 

Center, Bureau of Educational and 

Cultural Affairs: (202) 904–0878; 

culprop@state.gov; include ‘‘Vietnam’’ 

in the subject line. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Government of the Socialist Republic of 

Vietnam made a request to the 

Government of the United States on 

November 13, 2024, under Article 9 of 

the 1970 UNESCO Convention on the 

Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the 

Illicit Import, Export and Transfer of 

Ownership of Cultural Property. 

Vietnam’s request seeks U.S. import 

restrictions on archaeological and 

ethnological materials representing 

Vietnam’s cultural patrimony. The 

Cultural Heritage Center website will 

provide instructions for public comment 

and additional information on the 

request, including categories of material 

that may be included in import 

restrictions: https://eca.state.gov/ 

highlight/cultural-property-advisorycommittee-meeting-february-4-6-2025. 

This notice is published pursuant to 

authority vested in the Principal Deputy 

Assistant Secretary of State for 

Educational and Cultural Affairs and 

pursuant to 19 U.S.C. 2602(f)(1). 

Allison R. Davis Lehmann, 

Executive Director, Cultural Property 

Advisory Committee, Department of State. 

[FR Doc. 2024–31254 Filed 12–27–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4710–05–P 

DEPARTMENT OF STATE 

[Public Notice: 12624] 

Proposal To Extend the Cultural 

Property Agreement Between the 

United States and Italy 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: Proposal to extend the 

Memorandum of Understanding 

Between the Government of the United 

States of America and the Government 

of the Italian Republic Concerning the 

Imposition of Import Restrictions on 

Categories of Archaeological Material of 

Italy (‘‘the Italy Agreement’’). 


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