Wednesday, 26 October 2011

AIA CPAC Templates: Ummmmmm...

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Well, either I do not understand what it means when it says: "All comments must relate specifically to the determinations under Section 303(a) (1) of the Convention on Cultural Property Implementation Act, 19 U.S.C. § 2602, pursuant to which the Committee makes findings", or the Archaeological Institute of America don't.

They've produced some templates for the thousands of caring and informed US citizens who are somehow failing to write supporting the MOU request. I think these templates do not provide what the CPAC requested, any more than what the coineys are writing.

I am at a loss to see where the divergence of interpretation arises, it seems quite a simple sentence, and it is repeated:

All comments /Again, your comments
must / must
relate specifically to / relate specifically to
the determinations / the determinations
under Section 303 / under Section 303
(a) / (a)
(1) of the / (1) of the
Convention on Cultural Property / Convention on Cultural Property
Implementation Act, / Implementation Act,
19 U.S.C. § 2602, / 19 U.S.C. § 2602,
pursuant to which / pursuant to which
the Committee makes findings. / the Committee must make findings.

Perhaps the reason why there are so few responses from the White Hat guys on the Regulations.gov website is a lack of leadership. Look at what the 1970 Convention says about that (article 5 (esp. f), 10(b) and 14). The USA quite clearly is not fulfilling its obligations to the Convention in that regard. Even so, I am sure the AIA is capable of far better, isn't it?

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