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[FR Doc No: 94-14458]
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UNITED STATES INFORMATION AGENCY
Convention on Cultural Property Implementation Act (Pub. L. 97-
446); Import Restriction on Archaeological Material of the Moche Period
From the Sipan Archaeological Region, Peru
AGENCY: United States Information Agency.
ACTION: Determination to Extend Emergency Restriction on Moche Material
from the Sipan Archaeological Region, Peru.
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Pursuant to the authority vested in me under Executive Order 12555
and Delegation Order No. 86-3 of March 18, 1986 (51 FR 10137),
I find:
Pursuant to the requirements of section 304(c) (3) of the Act, 19
U.S.C. 2603(c)(3), with respect to the extension of an emergency import
restriction on Moche artifacts from the Sipan Archaeological Region,
Peru, and pursuant to the emergency provisions under section 304,
subsections (a)(2) and (a)(3); and pursuant to a unanimous favorable
recommendation from the Cultural Property Advisory Committee,
(1) That the material is archaeological and is identifiable as
coming from sites in the Sipan Archaeological Region, an area
recognized to be of high cultural significance, for it contains
evidence of the Moche culture at the apogee of its development; that an
ambience conducive to further pillage continues to exist in this region
causing continued jeopardy from pillage, dismantling, dispersal, or
fragmentation which is, of threatens to be, of crisis proportions;
(2) That the material is part of the remains of the Moche culture
(approximately A.D. 100-800) which did not develop a writing system and
about which little is known except from scientific excavation of intact
remains; that an ambience conducive to further pillage continues to
exist relative to these remains of the Moche culture, the record of
which continues to be in jeopardy from pillage, dismantling, dispersal,
or fragmentation which is, or threatens to be, of crisis proportions;
(3) That the application of the import restriction set forth on a
temporary basis would continue, in whole or in part, to reduce the
incentive for pillage, for it has been established that the emergency
import restriction in place since 1990 has resulted in a diminution to
systematic clandestine pillage of the sites in the Sipan Archaeological
Region.
Determination
Therefore, in accordance with the aforementioned authority vested
in me, and pursuant to section 304(c)(3) of the Act, 19 U.S.C.
2603(c)(3), and consistent with a favorable recommendation from the
Cultural Property Advisory Committee, I determine:
(1) That the emergency condition continues to apply with respect to
Moche artifacts from the Sipan Archaeological Region in the Lambayeque
Valley of northern Peru.
(2) That the emergency import restriction that went into effect on
May 7, 1990, is extended for a period of three more years effective
June 15, 1994.
Dated: June 9, 1994.
Penn Kemble,
Deputy Director, United States Information Agency.
[FR Doc. 94-14458 Filed 6-13-94; 8:45 am]
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