State Department publishes notice on Feb. 28

The US State Department published a two page notice on Feb. 28, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

The notice is focused on Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, Office of Citizen Exchanges (ECA/PE/C); 30-Day Notice of Proposed Information Collection: Evaluation of DOS-Sponsored Citizen Exchange Programs.

The State Department is responsibly for international relations with a budget of more than $50 billion. Tenure at the State Dept. is increasingly tenuous and it's seen as an extension of the President's will, ambitions and flaws.

Notices are required documents detailing rules and regulations being proposed by each federal department. This allows the public to see what issues legislators and federal departments are focusing on.

Any person or organization can comment on the proposed rules. Departments and agencies must then address “significant issues raised in comments and discuss any changes made,” the Federal Register says.

Notices published by the State Department on Feb. 28

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Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, Office of Citizen Exchanges (ECA/PE/C); 30-Day Notice of Proposed Information Collection: Evaluation of DOS-Sponsored Citizen Exchange Programs
Culturally Significant Object Imported for Exhibition Determinations: “Caspar David Friedrich's Giant Mountain (View of the Small Sturmhaube From Warmbrunn) c. 1810”
Culturally Significant Objects Imported for Exhibition Determinations: “Anthony van Dyck: ‘Ecce Homo’ and ‘The Mocking of Christ’ ”
Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, Office of Academic Exchange Programs (ECA/A); 30-Day Notice of Proposed Information Collection: Evaluation of DOS-Sponsored Academic Exchange Programs
Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs Request for Grant Proposals (ECA/PE/C-02-27): Intercultural Public-Private Fellows Program for Africa, Eurasia, Latin America, the Middle East, and South Asia
Culturally Significant Objects Imported for Exhibition Determinations: “Rubens, Jordaens, Van Dyck and Their Circle: Flemish Master Drawings From the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen”
Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs Request for Grant Proposals: Balkan Educational Partnerships Program
Culturally Significant Objects Imported for Exhibition Determinations: “Oskar Kokoschka: Early Portraits, Vienna-Berlin, 1909-1914”