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innovative capacity of the United States 

by January 4, 2012. This study is to be 

conducted in consultation with the 

National Economic Council, Federal 

agencies as the Secretary considers 

appropriate, and an Innovation 

Advisory Board. 

COMPETES directs that the study 

shall include the following: 

(A) An analysis of the United States 

economy and innovation infrastructure. 

(B) An assessment of the following: 

(i) The current competitive and 

innovation performance of the United 

States economy relative to other 

countries that compete economically 

with the United States. 

(ii) Economic competitiveness and 

domestic innovation in the current 

business climate, including tax and 

Federal regulatory policy. 

(iii) The business climate of the 

United States and those of other 

countries that compete economically 

with the United States. 

(iv) Regional issues that influence the 

economic competitiveness and 

innovation capacity of the United 

States, including— 

(I) the roles of State and local 

governments and institutions of higher 

education; and 

(II) regional factors that contribute 

positively to innovation. 

(v) The effectiveness of the Federal 

Government in supporting and 

promoting economic competitiveness 

and innovation, including any 

duplicative efforts of, or gaps in 

coverage between, Federal agencies and 

departments. 

(vi) Barriers to competitiveness in 

newly emerging business or technology 

sectors, factors influencing 

underperforming economic sectors, 

unique issues facing small and medium 

enterprises, and barriers to the 

development and evolution of start-ups, 

firms, and industries. 

(vii) The effects of domestic and 

international trade policy on the 

competitiveness of the United States 

and the United States economy. 

(viii) United States export promotion 

and export finance programs relative to 

export promotion and export finance 

programs of other countries that 

compete economically with the United 

States, including Canada, France, 

Germany, Italy, Japan, Korea, and the 

United Kingdom, with noting of export 

promotion and export finance programs 

carried out by such countries that are 

not analogous to any programs carried 

out by the United States. 

(ix) The effectiveness of current 

policies and programs affecting exports, 

including an assessment of Federal 

trade restrictions and State and Federal 

export promotion activities. 

(x) The effectiveness of the Federal 

Government and Federally funded 

research and development centers in 

supporting and promoting technology 

commercialization and technology 

transfer. 

(xi) Domestic and international 

intellectual property policies and 

practices. 

(xii) Manufacturing capacity, logistics, 

and supply chain dynamics of major 

export sectors, including access to a 

skilled workforce, physical 

infrastructure, and broadband network 

infrastructure. 

(xiii) Federal and State policies 

relating to science, technology, and 

education and other relevant Federal 

and State policies designed to promote 

commercial innovation, including 

immigration policies. 

Selection Criteria 

COMPETES directs the Secretary of 

Commerce to appoint a 15 member 

Innovation Advisory Board representing 

all major industry sectors for purposes 

of obtaining advice with respect to the 

conduct of the study described above. 

The majority of Board members must be 

comprised of representatives from 

private industry, including large and 

small firms, representing both advanced 

technology sectors and more traditional 

sectors that use technology. The Board 

may include economic or innovation 

policy experts, State and local 

government officials active in 

technology-based economic 

development, and representatives from 

higher education. 

Board members will serve until the 

completion of the study, which, under 

the Act must be completed by January 

4, 2012. 

Members are required to meet to 

provide input to the study at two critical 

development points: Development of 

the extended outline and review of 

draft. In addition, members may be 

called upon to participate in events 

around the country designed to solicit 

additional information regarding 

specific issues related to the economic 

competitiveness and innovative 

capacity of the United States. 

Board members are not considered 

Federal government employees by 

virtue of their service as a member of 

the Board and will receive no 

compensation from the Federal 

government for their participation in 

Board activities. Members participating 

in Board meetings and events will be 

not be compensated for travel or other 

expenses. 

To be considered for membership, 

please provide the following: 

1. Name, title, and personal resume of 

the individual requesting consideration; 

2. A brief statement of why the person 

should be considered for membership 

on the Board. This statement should 

address the individual’s relevant 

expertise in factors impacting the 

economic competitiveness and 

innovative capacity of the United States; 

and 

3. A brief biography. 

Appointments of members to the 

Board will be made by the Secretary of 

Commerce. 

Dated: March 2, 2011. 

John Connor, 

Office of the Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2011–5133 Filed 3–7–11; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–EA–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

Bureau of the Census 

[Docket Number 110209126–1124–02 ] 

The 2010 Census Count Question 

Resolution Program 

AGENCY: Bureau of the Census, 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice of Program. 

SUMMARY: On May 26, 2010, the Bureau 

of the Census (Census Bureau) 

published in the Federal Register an 

initial notice relating to the 2010 Census 

Count Question Resolution (CQR) 

Program (75 FR 29508). This notice 

provides final information concerning 

the CQR Program. The CQR Program 

will address requests for corrections to 

the 2010 Census count of housing units 

and/or group quarters (GQs) and 

associated population, based on three 

types of challenges (1) boundary, (2) 

geocoding, and (3) coverage. The CQR 

Program is not a mechanism or process 

to challenge or revise the population 

counts sent to the President by 

December 31, 2010, which are used to 

apportion the U.S. House of 

Representatives. The Census Bureau 

will accept challenges between June 1, 

2011, and June 1, 2013, and will review 

challenges in the order they are 

received. 

DATES: Effective Date: This program will 

become effective on June 1, 2011, and 

will end on June 1, 2013. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Count Question Resolution Program, 

Decennial Management Division, U.S. 

Census Bureau, Washington, DC 20233. 

Telephone: 301–763–9329; Fax: 301– 

763–9321; E-mail: dmd.cqr@census.gov: 


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or visit the CQR Web site at: http:// 

2010census.gov/about/cqr. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Introduction 

On May 26, 2010, the Census Bureau 

published in the Federal Register an 

initial notice relating to the 2010 Census 

Count Question Resolution (CQR) 

Program (75 FR 25908). The Census 

Bureau received one set of comments. 

The comments suggested additional 

clarifying text for key concepts 

presented in the document regarding the 

scope of and required documentation 

for the CQR Program. The Census 

Bureau incorporated text to clarify the 

description of the program concepts, 

and the revisions are included in this 

program announcement. Please see the 

Definitions of Key Terms section at the 

end of this notice for an explanation of 

various terms throughout this notice. 

CQR Program procedures include 

researching challenges and, as 

appropriate, making corrections and 

issuing revised official population, and 

housing and group quarters counts, 

which the Census Bureau will also use 

for the Census Bureau’s Population 

Estimates Program. The Census Bureau 

will not accept challenges to the 

overseas counts of persons in the 

military and Federal civilian personnel 

stationed overseas and their dependents 

living with them. The Census Bureau 

obtains overseas counts using 

administrative records and uses the 

records solely for apportioning seats in 

the U.S. House of Representatives. 

These records do not provide the subState geographic information required 

for the CQR Program. 

The Census Bureau will only accept 

challenges from the highest elected 

official of State, local, and Tribal area 

governments or those representing them 

or acting on their behalf. All challenges 

must be sent to the Census Bureau’s 

headquarters. 

The Census Bureau will make all 

corrections on the basis of appropriate 

documentation provided by the 

challenging entities and through 

research of the official 2010 Census 

records by the Census Bureau. The 

Census Bureau will not collect 

additional data for the enumeration of 

living quarters through the CQR 

Program. The Census Bureau will 

respond to all challenges and will notify 

all affected governmental units of any 

corrections to their official counts as a 

result of a CQR Program decision. 

Corrections made to the population, 

and housing and group quarters counts 

by this program will result in the 

issuance of new official 2010 Census 

counts to the officials of governmental 

units affected. These corrections may be 

used by the governmental units for 

future programs requiring official 2010 

Census data. The Census Bureau will 

use these corrections to: 

—Modify the decennial census file for 

use in annual postcensal estimates 

beginning in December 2012, and 

—Create the errata information we will 

make available on the Census 

Bureau’s American FactFinder Web 

site at http://factfinder2.census.gov. 

The Census Bureau will NOT 

incorporate the CQR corrections into 

2010 data summary files and tables 

prepared after the CQR process begins 

nor will the Census Bureau re-tabulate 

Summary File 1 or Demographic Profile 

tables. 

Background 

The Census Bureau has a 

comprehensive program to improve the 

quality of the housing unit and GQ 

counts. In 2002, the Census Bureau 

initiated the Master Address File/ 

Topologically Integrated Geographic 

Encoding and Referencing (MAF/ 

TIGER) Accuracy Improvement Project 

(MTAIP) as part of the MAF/TIGER 

Enhancements Program (MTEP). This 

project acquired Geographic Information 

System (GIS) files, aerial photography, 

and Global Positioning System (GPS) 

data from various sources nationwide to 

update the TIGER database. One of the 

primary goals of the project was to 

develop a highly accurate geographic 

database of the United States, Puerto 

Rico, and the Island Areas. The Census 

Bureau focused on improving the 

accuracy of street feature coordinates to 

provide base information suitable for 

use with GPS-equipped hand-held 

devices that would facilitate the 

gathering of accurate location and 

census information for all living 

quarters and workplaces. 

The Census Bureau implemented a 

number of address list development 

programs in preparation for the 2010 

Census, the earliest of which was the 

Local Update of Census Addresses 

(LUCA) Program that started in 2007. 

Participating State, local, and Tribal 

area governments were given the 

opportunity to review and update the 

Census Bureau’s address list of living 

quarters before it was used for the actual 

census enumeration. In cases where the 

State, local, or Tribal area government 

and the Census Bureau could not agree 

on the address list, the governmental 

unit could use an appeal process 

administered by the LUCA Appeals 

Office, which was set up by the Office 

of Management and Budget (OMB) to 

provide an independent adjudication. 

The full LUCA operation included the 

review of materials by participants 

(described above) from November 2007 

through March 2008; Census Bureau 

Address Canvassing field work from 

March through July 2009; LUCA 

Detailed Feedback to participants from 

October through November 2009; and 

the LUCA Appeals process which 

concluded at the end of March 2010. In 

addition to LUCA, governmental units 

with city-style address areas had 

another opportunity to update the 2010 

Census address list by the New 

Construction program, which occurred 

from November 2009 through March 

2010. The purpose of the New 

Construction program was to obtain 

city-style addresses for newly built 

housing units. Participants in this 

program were asked to submit addresses 

for any housing unit for which basic 

construction would have been 

completed between March 2009 (the 

start of the Address Canvassing 

operation) and before Census Day, 

(April 1, 2010). Addresses sent to the 

Census Bureau from New Construction 

program participants were added to the 

Mail Delivery for Late Adds operation 

or, if received after that program began, 

the addresses were included in the 

Vacant Delete Check operation. Between 

2009 and 2010, the Census Bureau 

conducted the Boundary Validation 

Program. This program provided highest 

elected officials and Tribal chairpersons 

with maps that showed boundaries of 

their respective jurisdictions and 

instructed them on how to make 

boundary corrections. 

From September through October 

2009, the Census Bureau also conducted 

the Group Quarters Validation and 

Reinterview operations to verify or 

correct address records identified as 

GQs. From March through April 2010, 

the Census Bureau conducted the 

Enumeration at Transitory Locations 

operation that was designed to 

enumerate eligible populations living in 

transitory locations such as 

campgrounds and marinas. After the 

development of the 2010 Census 

mailing list, a number of situations 

occurred requiring the Census Bureau to 

implement an additional mail delivery. 

This was referred to as the Mail Delivery 

for Late Adds and included city-style 

addresses from the LUCA appeals, 

Census Bureau research of ungeocoded 

addresses in the Master Address File, 

and additional self-response from the 

spring 2010 Delivery Sequence File 

update from the United States Postal 

Service. The Mail Delivery for Late 

Adds operation reduced the number of 

addresses included in the Nonresponse 


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Follow-up (NRFU) Vacant Delete Check 

operation (described below). 

Between April and August 2010, the 

Coverage Follow-up (CFU) operation 

improved the 2010 Census by calling 

households that were identified as 

having a potential error in their 

household count. From July through 

August 2010, the NRFU Vacant Delete 

Check operation verified the vacant and 

delete assessments of census workers. 

Vacant Delete Check also enumerated 

housing units that census workers 

inaccurately classified as vacant or 

nonexistent in an earlier census 

operation. This operation also 

enumerated added housing units 

discovered in an earlier census 

operation such as those added or 

reinstated through the 2010 LUCA 

appeals process; records added from the 

Housing Unit Address Review 

conducted as part of the Count Review 

operation; records added as a result of 

research into potentially missed 

addresses in Address Canvassing (as 

reported on internal documents known 

as INFO–COMMs); previously 

ungeocoded addresses which obtained 

geocodes from the Census Bureau 

research of ungeocoded addresses in the 

Master Address File; new addresses 

from periodic postal updates; records 

added by Update/Leave; and addresses 

provided in the New Construction 

operation by Tribal and local 

governments. 

In August through early September 

2010, the Census Bureau conducted the 

Field Verification operation. The Field 

Verification operation was a final check 

for certain address records from sources, 

such as Be Counted, Telephone 

Questionnaire Assistance (TQA), Group 

Quarters Enumeration, questionnaire 

fulfillment and TQA interview, as well 

as particular categories of housing-level 

cases identified through person 

matching for the CFU operation. Data 

collection for the 2010 Census ended in 

the Local Census Offices in September 

2010. The Census Bureau strictly 

enforced the schedule to allow the time 

to produce the State-level 

apportionment counts by December 31, 

2010, as required by law. 

Relevant 2010 Census Data Releases 

The Redistricting Data (pursuant to 

Pub. L. 94–171) are scheduled for 

release from February through March 

2011. In May 2011, the Census Bureau 

will release the ‘‘Advance Release of 

Group Quarters Data from Summary 

File1’’to the public through a file 

transfer protocol (ftp) site. The ftp site 

is a link to a location at a Census Bureau 

network server. Users go to the link and 

download data from electronic folders. 

Many data users have automatic 

programs to retrieve data at certain time 

intervals. This GQ file will include 

block-level GQ counts by GQ type. The 

Demographic Profile table, which 

contains selected population and 

housing characteristics, will also be 

released in May 2011. The release of 

Summary File 1 (SF1) on a flow basis 

to States will occur between June and 

August 2011. The SF1 will contain 

block-level housing unit and GQ counts. 

Collectively, these census data products 

will provide CQR Program participants 

with the appropriate tools for accessing 

the accuracy of their decennial census 

counts. 

The highest elected official or 

chairperson from a State, local, or Tribal 

area government must contact the 

Census Bureau CQR Office in order to 

initiate the challenge process. The 

Census Bureau will also accept 

challenges on official jurisdictional 

letterhead from county clerks, city 

planners, local planning board 

representatives, and State legislative 

representatives with redistricting 

functions within each State and State 

equivalents who are acting on the behalf 

of a local or Tribal jurisdiction to submit 

a challenge. 

Types of Challenges Considered for the 

2010 Census CQR Program 

The 2010 Census CQR Program may 

make corrections as a result of the 

following three types of challenges: 

• Boundary—These challenges may 

address the inaccurate reporting or the 

inaccurate recording of boundaries 

legally in effect on January 1, 2010. The 

Census Bureau needs to ensure that the 

geographic assignment information 

provided by governmental units does 

not, in fact, reflect boundary changes 

made after January 1, 2010. 

• Geocoding— These challenges 

identify suspected errors in the 

geographic location of living quarter 

addresses within the governmental unit 

boundaries and census tabulation 

blocks. 

• Coverage—These challenges, if 

upheld by the Census Bureau, result in 

the addition or deletion of specific 

living quarters and persons associated 

with them identified during the census 

process, but which were erroneously 

included as duplicates or excluded due 

to processing errors. 

Challenges That Result in Corrections 

The Census Bureau will issue 

corrected CQR counts based on the 

housing unit and population counts as 

of April 1, 2010. The governmental 

units may use new official census 

counts for all programs requiring official 

2010 Census data. The Census Bureau 

will not make corrections to the 2010 

population counts for individual 

housing units or GQs, or corrections to 

the characteristics of the population and 

housing inventory. The Census Bureau 

will modify the decennial file with the 

CQR corrections for use in generating 

the 2012 postcensal estimates. The 

American FactFinder will provide the 

inventory of corrections as errata to the 

original data. The Census Bureau will 

not revise 2010 Census base files, 2010 

Census apportionment counts, 

redistricting data, or 2010 Census data 

products. The Census Bureau will send 

a letter with a certification of the 

population, housing and group quarters 

counts for all jurisdictions affected by 

the results of a CQR challenge. 

Challenges That Do Not Result in 

Corrections 

When a State, local, or Tribal area 

government provides evidence that the 

Census Bureau missed housing units or 

GQs that existed on April 1, 2010, but 

the CQR research and 2010 Census 

records show that all of the Census 

Bureau’s boundary information, 

geocoding, and coverage processing 

were correctly implemented, the Census 

Bureau will respond by sending a letter 

to the official or his/her representative 

stating that the Census Bureau will 

maintain the documentation for 

consideration in the context of address 

list updating activities in the future, but 

will not issue a revised count. 

Internal Census Bureau Review 

The primary internal review process 

for the 2010 Census counts is the Count 

Review Program. This program started 

in February 2010, with Census Bureau 

staff and members of the Federal-State 

Cooperative Program for Population 

Estimates (FSCPE) working together to 

review address lists and identify 

clusters of missing housing unit 

addresses. The Count Review Program 

also includes a Census Bureau staff 

review of housing unit and group 

quarters counts and associated 

population totals prior to the release of 

the data. In August 2010, the FSCPE 

representatives reviewed potential 

missing or misallocated 2010 Census 

GQs. 

In addition to challenges received 

through the CQR Program, findings from 

the Count Review GQ internal review 

may result in cases for the CQR Program 

when there was insufficient time to 

make corrections before the end of the 

Count Review operation on August 17, 

2010. The Count Review Program staff 

will create CQR internal referrals for 

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of the CQR Program. The Census Bureau 

may make corrections as a result of this 

review. When the Census Bureau makes 

changes to the housing unit and/or GQ 

counts based on internal review, new 

official counts will be issued to all 

affected jurisdictions as changes are 

verified and recalculations are 

completed. The CQR corrections will be 

presented on the American FactFinder 

to represent total population, housing 

unit and group quarters count changes 

made to governmental units from the 

2010 Census CQR Program. 

Method of Collection 

Criteria for Acceptable Documentation 

Necessary To Initiate the 2010 Census 

CQR Process 

The Census Bureau requires 

documentation before committing 

resources to investigate concerns raised 

by State, local, or Tribal area officials or 

their representatives about boundary 

and geographic assignment errors or the 

accuracy of the census housing unit or 

GQ counts. The submitted challenges 

must specify whether the challenge 

disputes the location of a governmental 

unit boundary or the number of housing 

units and/or GQs in one or more census 

tabulation blocks, or both. The 

challenger must provide the following 

documentation based on the type of 

challenge: 

• For boundary challenges, indicate 

on a map the location of the 

governmental unit boundary in dispute 

and show where the Census Bureau 

incorrectly depicts the boundary. Show 

the correct boundary legally effective 

January 1, 2010. Additionally, provide 

the Census Bureau with a list of 

addresses in challenged 2010 Census 

tabulation blocks, indicating their 

location in relationship to the boundary 

that the governmental unit wants the 

Census Bureau to correct. A 

governmental unit does not need to 

provide the Census Bureau with a list of 

addresses if their challenge is solely for 

a name or status change, or to add a new 

entity. (See the section ‘‘Types of 

Acceptable Maps’’.) 

• For geocoding and coverage 

challenges, identify the specific 

contested 2010 Census tabulation block 

and a list of the addresses for all 

housing units or GQs in that block on 

April 1, 2010. A governmental unit does 

not need to provide the Census Bureau 

with a list of addresses if their challenge 

is solely for a name or status change, or 

to add a new entity. (See ‘‘Boundary 

Challenge Criteria.’’) 

Boundary Challenge Criteria 

State, local, or Tribal area 

governments must base challenges on 

boundaries legally in effect on January 

1, 2010. The Census Bureau will 

compare the maps and appropriate 

supporting documentation submitted by 

the challenging governmental unit with 

the information used by the Census 

Bureau to depict the boundaries for the 

2010 Census. 

Maps submitted by State, local or 

Tribal area governments must show the 

correct location of the boundary and the 

portion of the boundary that the Census 

Bureau potentially depicted incorrectly, 

including the 2010 Census tabulation 

block numbers associated with the 

boundary. The State, local, or Tribal 

area government must also provide the 

Census Bureau with a list of addresses 

in challenged 2010 Census tabulation 

blocks, indicating their location in 

relationship to the boundary that the 

governmental unit wants the Census 

Bureau to correct. 

For boundary challenges affected by 

legal actions not recorded by the Census 

Bureau, governmental units must 

submit the effective date and the 

ordinance number or law that 

effectuated the change in boundaries, 

provide evidence that the State 

certifying official has approved the 

boundary change if required by State 

law, and provide a statement that the 

boundary is not under litigation. 

Types of Acceptable Maps 

• 2010 Census Public Law 94–171 

County Block Maps—The Census 

Bureau produces these maps as a 

reference for the Redistricting Data Files 

available for all States, the District of 

Columbia, and Puerto Rico. 

• 2010 Census County Block Maps— 

The Census Bureau produces maps as a 

reference to the Summary File 1 data. 

• The 2010 TIGER/Line File—The 

Census Bureau provides digital data in 

ESRI shapefile format. The 

governmental unit may generate maps 

based on information from the Census 

Bureau 2010 TIGER/Line shapefiles 

using a commercial geographic 

information system (GIS). These maps 

must identify the State, county, 

governmental unit, census tract, census 

tabulation block, and any other legal 

entity involved in a challenge. If a 

challenge involves an American Indian 

reservation or off-reservation trust 

lands, the maps must identify the 

American Indian area, the census tract 

(either county-based census tract or 

Tribal census tract) and the census 

tabulation block. 

• Other Maps Showing Census 

Bureau 2010 Tabulation Block Numbers 

and Boundaries—These maps should 

show geographic boundaries as of 

January 1, 2010, that identify census 

tabulation blocks, census tracts, legal 

and statistical entities and State 

boundaries; maps depicting data 

collection blocks cannot be used. In 

general, maps should be comparable to 

2010 Census maps. 

Challenge Criteria 

Housing Unit Count 

The Public Law 94–171 Redistricting 

Data Summary File and the Summary 

File 1 can be used to obtain census 

tabulation block housing unit counts. 

Challenges must include a complete 

address list for all units that the 

challenger thinks the Census Bureau 

should include in each contested block. 

(Refer to the Section ‘‘Types of Address 

Lists.’’) State, local, or Tribal area 

officials must certify that the addresses 

on their lists existed and could be lived 

in on April 1, 2010. The supporting 

evidence must specifically show the 

validity of any address and reflect 

residential addresses that existed as 

viable living quarters on April 1, 2010. 

Challenges to housing unit counts must 

specify the 2010 Census tract and 

tabulation block(s) for which the counts 

are being challenged. 

Group Quarters Count 

The ‘‘Advance Release of Group 

Quarters Data from Summary File 1’’ 

provides the GQ counts for 2010 Census 

tabulation blocks. Summary File 1 itself 

may also be used to obtain census 

tabulation blocks and GQ counts. 

Challenges must include a complete 

address list for all GQ buildings that the 

challenger thinks the Census Bureau 

should include in each contested block. 

The State, local, or Tribal area official 

must certify that the addresses on their 

lists existed and could be lived in on 

April 1, 2010. The supporting evidence 

must specifically reflect the validity of 

any address list source, showing the 

population within a GQ, and must 

clearly identify the list as being the 

resident population no later than April 

1, 2010. Challenges to GQ counts must 

specify the associated 2010 census tract 

and census tabulation block(s). 

Types of Address Lists 

• City-Style Address Lists—A citystyle address must include house 

number, street name, city, State, ZIP 

Code, and county. The city-style address 

list must be organized by 2010 Census 

tabulation block within 2010 Census 

tract. Also, it must include any 

applicable housing unit identifiers in 

multi-unit buildings (such as apartment 


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numbers). The Census Bureau requests 

the challenger to use the address list 

templates provided on the CQR Web site 

and submit the challenge electronically. 

In addition, mark the exact location of 

each challenged address on a map 

containing 2010 census tract and 

tabulation block(s). 

• Non-City-Style Address Lists—Noncity-style addresses include rural route 

addresses and any other addresses that 

do not contain a complete house 

number, street name, city, State, ZIP 

Code, and county. The non-city-style 

address list must be organized by 2010 

Census tabulation block within census 

tract. If a household receives mail at a 

post office box address, provide the E– 

911 address if it exists. The State, local 

or Tribal area government must provide 

the exact location for each challenged 

address on a map containing 2010 

census tract and tabulation block(s). 

Focus the list on the specific area where 

the challenged addresses exist. All 

addresses in the challenged block must 

contain a description of the housing 

units and locations. 

• Group Quarters Address Lists—GQ 

addresses can include city-style or noncity-style addresses. Provide the name, 

number and street address, city, State, 

ZIP Code, and county of the GQ as of 

April 1, 2010. Also provide a current 

telephone number or e-mail address for 

the contact at the GQ. The GQ address 

list must be organized by 2010 Census 

tabulation block within census tract. 

The challenger must provide 

documentation that supports the 

number of persons residing at the GQ on 

April 1, 2010. In addition, the 

challenger must provide the 2010 

Census tract and tabulation block 

number for the location of the GQ, 

including the exact location for each 

challenged address on a map containing 

2010 Census tract and tabulation 

block(s). 

Census Bureau Actions 

The Census Bureau will investigate 

acceptable challenges to determine 

whether it can identify information 

about the existence of a housing unit or 

occupied GQ on April 1, 2010, that does 

not appear in the final census files due 

to an error in processing the 

information. The Census Bureau will 

neither collect new data nor make 

changes to apportionment counts, 

redistricting data, or any 2010 Census 

data products. 

Definitions of Key Terms 

American FactFinder—An interactive 

Web site used for accessing and 

disseminating the results of many 

Census Bureau programs. The system is 

available through the Internet, and the 

Census Bureau will use it to disseminate 

the results of the 2010 Census. The 

American FactFinder Web site can be 

found at: http://factfinder2.census.gov. 

Census Tabulation Block—A 

geographic area bounded by visible 

features, such as streets, roads, streams, 

and railroad tracts, and by nonvisible 

boundaries, such as city, town, 

township, and county limits, and short 

line-of-sight extensions of streets and 

roads. Generally, census blocks are 

small in area; for example, a block in a 

city bounded on all sides by streets. 

Census blocks in suburban and rural 

areas may be large, irregular, and 

bounded by a variety of features. In 

remote areas, census blocks may 

encompass hundreds of square miles. 

Census blocks are the smallest 

geographic entities for which the Census 

Bureau tabulates decennial census 

information. 

Census Tract—Small, relatively 

permanent statistical subdivisions of a 

county or equivalent entity updated by 

local participants prior to each 

decennial census as part of the Census 

Bureau’s Participant Statistical Areas 

Program in accordance with Census 

Bureau guidelines. Census tracts 

generally have a population size 

between 1,200 and 8,000 people, and 

have an optimum size of 4,000 people. 

County or Equivalent Entity—The 

primary legal subdivision of States and 

equivalent entities. In Louisiana, these 

divisions are known as parishes. In 

Alaska, which has no counties, the 

equivalent entities are boroughs, city 

and boroughs, municipalities, and 

census areas; the latter of which are 

delineated cooperatively for statistical 

purposes by the State of Alaska and the 

Census Bureau. In Puerto Rico, the 

primary divisions are municipios. 

Demographic Profile—A table 

containing data that shows information 

on total population, sex, age, race, 

Hispanic or Latino origin, household 

relationship, GQ population, household 

type, housing occupancy, and housing 

tenure. 

E–911 Address—An E–911 address is 

a site location address assigned by using 

a mileage measurement to a driveway 

on a named road. An E–911 address 

helps emergency services to locate 

residents and are required to be 

displayed on living quarters and visible 

from the road. 

Group Quarters—A group quarters is 

defined as a place where people live or 

stay, in a group-living arrangement that 

is owned or managed by a governmental 

unit or organization providing housing 

and services for the residents. This is 

not a typical household-type living 

arrangement. These services may 

include custodial or medical care as 

well as other types of assistance, and 

residency is commonly restricted to 

those receiving these services. People 

living in GQs are usually not related to 

each other. The two general types of 

GQs are institutional and noninstitutional. Institutional GQs include 

nursing homes, mental hospitals and 

psychiatric units in other hospitals, 

hospitals with patients who have no 

usual home elsewhere, inpatient 

hospice facilities, correctional facilities 

for adults and juveniles, and residential 

schools for people with disabilities. 

Non-institutional GQs include college or 

university dormitories and residence 

halls, military barracks, group homes, 

shelters, convents, migratory farm 

worker camps, military ship, and 

maritime/merchant vessels. GQs may 

have housing for staff as their usual 

residence at the GQ address. 

Hawaiian Homelands—An area 

created and held in trust for the benefit 

of native Hawaiians by the State of 

Hawaii, pursuant to the Hawaiian 

Homes Commission Act of 1920, as 

amended. Hawaiian homelands were a 

new type of geographic entity for the 

2000 Census. 

Housing Unit—Living quarters in 

which the occupants live separately 

from any other individuals in the 

building and have direct access to their 

living quarters from outside the building 

or through a common hall. Housing 

units include such places as houses, 

apartments, mobile homes or trailers, 

groups of rooms, or a single room that 

is occupied as a separate living quarters, 

or if vacant, is intended for occupancy 

as a separate living quarters. A housing 

unit is defined as a living quarters that 

is closed to the elements and has all 

exterior windows and doors installed 

and final usable floors in place. For 

vacant units, the criteria of separateness 

and direct access are applied to the 

intended occupants, whenever possible. 

If the Census Bureau cannot obtain the 

information, the criteria are applied to 

the previous occupants. 

Incorporated Place—A type of 

governmental unit, incorporated under 

State law as a city, city and borough, 

municipality, town (except in New 

England, New York, and Wisconsin), 

borough (except in Alaska and New 

York), or village, that has legally 

prescribed limits, powers, and 

functions. A few incorporated places do 

not have a legal description. 

Minor Civil Division(MCD)—A type of 

governmental unit that is the primary 

governmental or administrative division 

of a county or statistically equivalent 

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Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the Island 

Areas. MCDs are represented by several 

types of legal entities, such as 

townships, towns (in eight States), and 

districts. 

Municipio—The primary legal 

subdivision of Puerto Rico (equivalent 

to county). 

Overseas Counts—Counts of military 

and Federal civilian personnel stationed 

overseas with their dependents living 

with them. 

Postcensal Estimates—Population 

estimates for the years following the last 

published decennial census. The Census 

Bureau uses existing data series, such as 

births, deaths, Federal tax returns, 

Medicare enrollment, immigration, and 

housing unit information, to update the 

decennial census counts during the 

estimating process. These estimates are 

used in Federal funding allocations, 

monitoring recent demographic trends, 

and benchmarking many Federally 

funded survey totals. 

Public Law 94–171—The Federal law 

amending Section 141 of Title 13 that 

directs the Secretary of Commerce (who 

delegates that responsibility to the 

Director of the Census Bureau) to 

provide selected decennial census data 

tabulations to the States by April 1 of 

the year following the census. These 

tabulations are used by the States to 

redistrict areas used for elections such 

as congressional, legislative and school 

districts. In addition, the data are used 

for local redistricting such as the 

drawing of county council and city 

council districts. 

State Designated Tribal Statistical 

Area (SDTSA)—A statistical entity 

delineated for an American Indian Tribe 

that does not have a land base 

(reservation) and is recognized as a 

Tribe by a State government, but not the 

Federal government. SDTSAs are 

identified and delineated for the Census 

Bureau by a liaison identified by a 

State’s governor’s office. SDTSAs 

generally encompasses a compact and 

contiguous area that contains a 

concentration of people who identify 

with a State recognized American 

Indian Tribe and in which there is 

structured or organized Tribal activity. 

SDTSAs may not be located in more 

than one State unless the Tribe is 

recognized by both State governments, 

and it may not include an area within 

an American Indian Reservation, offreservation trust land, Oklahoma Tribal 

statistical area, Tribal designated 

statistical area, or Alaska Native village 

statistical area. SDTSAs were included 

with Tribal designated statistical areas 

for the 1990 Census; this designation 

was new for the 2000 Census. 

State-Recognized American Indian 

Reservation—A type of legal geographic 

entity that is a recognized American 

Indian land area with a boundary 

established by final treaty, statute, 

executive order, and/or court order, and 

over which the Tribal government of a 

State-recognized American Indian Tribe 

has governmental authority. A governor 

appointed State liaison provides the 

name and boundary for each State 

recognized American Indian 

Reservation to the Census Bureau. 

Summary File 1—A data file that 

presents decennial census counts and 

basic cross-tabulations of information 

collected from all people and housing 

units. This information includes age, 

sex, race, Hispanic or Latino origin, 

household relationship, and whether 

the residence is owned or rented. Data 

will be available at the block level, but 

limited to the 2010 Census tract level in 

cases where there are concerns with 

disclosure. The Census Bureau also will 

include summaries for other geographic 

areas, such as ZIP Code tabulation areas 

and Congressional Districts. 

Exhibit—Additional Information 

This section provides additional 

information about the 2010 Census CQR 

Program. 

1. Where should a governmental unit 

submit a challenge for the 2010 Census 

CQR Program? 

Governmental units challenging the 

completeness or accuracy of the 2010 

Census counts need to submit their 

challenge in writing to: Count Question 

Resolution Program, Decennial 

Management Division, U.S. Census 

Bureau, Washington, DC 20233–0001. 

Governmental units can submit their 

challenge electronically to 

dmd.cqr@census.gov. 

2. Will the Census Bureau make 

corrections to the census counts based 

on information submitted by 

governmental units? 

The Census Bureau will make 

corrections if research indicates they are 

warranted. The Census Bureau will base 

its determination of whether a 

correction is necessary or not, on the 

quality and completeness of the 

information provided by State, local, or 

Tribal governmental unit 

representatives and the results of the 

Census Bureau’s research of the census 

records. The Census Bureau will not 

incorporate the CQR corrections into 

2010 data summary files and tables 

prepared after the CQR process begins 

nor will the Census Bureau retabulate 

Summary File 1 or Demographic Profile 

tables. 

3. Which governmental units are 

eligible to submit CQR challenges and 

which entities are eligible to be 

challenged? 

The Census Bureau will research and, 

if necessary, correct the counts for the 

following entities. 

• States and statistically equivalent 

entities can submit challenges for their 

State or equivalent, plus any counties or 

equivalent entities, minor civil 

divisions, incorporated places 

(including consolidated cities), State 

designated Tribal statistical areas, Staterecognized American Indian 

Reservations, Hawaiian homelands, and 

(in Hawaii and Puerto Rico only) for 

census designated places within their 

jurisdiction. Puerto Rico may also 

submit challenges for sub-minor civil 

divisions. 

• Counties and statistically 

equivalent entities can submit 

challenges for their county or equivalent 

entity plus any minor civil divisions, 

incorporated places, and (in Hawaii and 

Puerto Rico only) Census Designated 

Places within their jurisdiction. 

Municipios in Puerto Rico may also 

submit challenges for subminor civil 

divisions. 

• Actively functioning minor civil 

divisions can submit challenges for their 

minor civil division plus any 

incorporated place within their 

jurisdiction. 

• Incorporated places (including 

consolidated cities) can submit 

challenges for their place. 

• Federally-recognized American 

Indian Tribes can submit challenges for 

an American Indian Reservation or offreservation trust lands, Tribaldesignated statistical areas, and 

Oklahoma Tribal statistical areas plus 

any American Indian Tribal 

subdivisions within their jurisdiction. 

• Alaska Native Regional 

Corporations can submit challenges for 

their regional corporation and for 

Alaska Native Village Statistical Areas 

(ANVSAs) within their jurisdiction. 

• Alaska Native Village Statistical 

Areas can submit challenges for their 

ANVSA. 

The Census Bureau will not accept 

challenges for any other types of 

statistical or legally defined areas. 

4. Will the Census Bureau incorporate 

corrections from the CQR Program into 

the apportionment, redistricting data, or 

2010 Census data products? 

In accordance with the law, the 

apportionment counts are delivered to 

the President by December 31, 2010. 

The Census Bureau will not change the 

apportionment counts to reflect 

corrections resulting from the CQR 

Program. 

The Census Bureau plans to begin 

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required for redistricting purposes in 

February 2011 and will complete this 

delivery by the statutory deadline of 

March 31, 2011. The Census Bureau will 

not change the data in these products to 

reflect the results of CQR challenges. 

The Census Bureau will not 

incorporate CQR corrections into any 

2010 Census data products. The 

planned CQR Program allows the 

Census Bureau to maintain consistency 

between data products while 

maintaining the schedule for timely 

release of the data. However, the Census 

Bureau will issue revised, certified 

population and housing unit counts for 

the affected governmental unit(s), 

maintain a list of CQR corrected 

geographic areas on the American 

Factfinder, and/or other Census Bureau 

URL locations, and will incorporate any 

corrections into its Postcensal Estimates 

Program beginning in December 2012. 

Executive Orders 

This notice has been determined to be 

not significant for purposes of Executive 

Order (E.O.) 12866. This program does 

not contain policies with federalism 

implications sufficient to warrant 

preparation of a federalism assessment 

under E.O. 13132. 

Paperwork Reduction Act 

Notwithstanding any other provision 

of law, no person is required to respond 

to, nor shall a person be subject to a 

penalty for failure to comply with, a 

collection of information subject to the 

requirements of the Paperwork 

Reduction Act (PRA), 44 U.S.C., Chapter 

35, unless that collection of information 

displays a current valid OMB control 

number. In accordance with the PRA, 

OMB approved the CQR Program on 

February 22, 2011, under control 

number 0607–0879. The estimated 

burden hours are 7,800. 

Dated: March 2, 2011. 

Robert M. Groves, 

Director, Bureau of the Census. 

[FR Doc. 2011–5217 Filed 3–7–11; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–07–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Allocation of Duty-Exemptions for 

Calendar Year 2011 for Watch 

Producers Located in the United States 

Virgin Islands 

AGENCY: Import Administration, 

International Trade Administration, 

Department of Commerce; Office of 

Insular Affairs, Department of the 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: This action allocates calendar 

year 2011 duty exemptions for watch 

assembly producers (‘‘program 

producers’’) located in the United States 

Virgin Islands (‘‘USVI’’) pursuant to 

Public Law 97–446, as amended by 

Public Law 103–465, Public Law 106–36 

and Public Law 108–429 (‘‘the Act’’). 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Supriya Kumar, Subsidies Enforcement 

Office; phone number: (202) 482–3530; 

fax number: (202) 501–7952; and e-mail 

address: Supriya.Kumar@trade.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Pursuant 

to the Act, the Departments of the 

Interior and Commerce (‘‘the 

Departments’’) share responsibility for 

the allocation of duty exemptions 

among program producers in the United 

States insular possessions and the 

Northern Mariana Islands. In 

accordance with Section 303.3(a) of the 

regulations (15 CFR 303.3(a)), the total 

quantity of duty-free insular watches 

and watch movements for calendar year 

2011 is 1,866,000 units for the USVI. 

This amount was established in Changes 

in Watch, Watch Movement and Jewelry 

Program for the U.S. Insular 

Possessions, 65 FR 8048 (February 17, 

2000). There are currently no program 

producers in Guam, American Samoa or 

the Northern Mariana Islands. 

The criteria for the calculation of the 

calendar year 2011 duty-exemption 

allocations among program producers 

within a particular territory are set forth 

in Section 303.14 of the regulations (15 

CFR 303.14). The Departments have 

verified and, where appropriate, 

adjusted the data submitted in 

application form ITA–334P by USVI 

program producers and have inspected 

these producers’ operations in 

accordance with Section 303.5 of the 

regulations (15 CFR 303.5). 

In calendar year 2010, USVI program 

producers shipped 63,990 watches and 

watch movements into the customs 

territory of the United States under the 

Act. The dollar amount of corporate 

income taxes paid by USVI program 

producers during calendar year 2010, 

and the creditable wages and benefits 

paid by these producers during calendar 

year 2010 to residents of the territory 

was a combined total of $1,214,003. 

The calendar year 2011 USVI annual 

duty exemption allocations, based on 

the data verified by the Departments, are 

as follows: 

Program producer Annual 

allocation 

Belair Quartz, Inc. ..................... 500,000 

The balance of the units allocated to 

the USVI is available for new entrants 

into the program or existing program 

producers who request a supplement to 

their allocation. 

Carole Showers, 

Director, Office of Policy, Import 

Administration, International Trade 

Administration, Department of Commerce. 

Dated: March 1, 2011. 

Nikolao Pula, 

Director of Office of Insular Affairs, 

Department of the Interior. 

[FR Doc. 2011–5129 Filed 3–7–11; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–DS–M; 4310–93–M 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

[A–549–821] 

Polyethylene Retail Carrier Bags From 

Thailand: Final Results of Antidumping 

Duty Administrative Review 

AGENCY: Import Administration, 

International Trade Administration, 

Department of Commerce. 

SUMMARY: On September 2, 2010, the 

Department of Commerce published the 

preliminary results of the 2008/2009 

administrative review of the 

antidumping duty order on 

polyethylene retail carrier bags from 

Thailand. We gave interested parties an 

opportunity to comment on the 

preliminary results. Based on our 

analysis of the comments received and 

an examination of our calculations, we 

have made certain changes for the final 

results. The final weighted-average 

dumping margins for the respondents 

are listed below in the ‘‘Final Results of 

Review’’ section of this notice. 

DATES: Effective Date: March 8, 2011. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Thomas Schauer or Richard Rimlinger, 

AD/CVD Operations, Office 5, Import 

Administration, International Trade 

Administration, U.S. Department of 

Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution 

Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20230; 

telephone (202) 482–0410 or (202) 482– 

4477, respectively. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

On September 2, 2010, the 

Department of Commerce (the 

Department) published Polyethylene 


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