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OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND 

BUDGET 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

Bureau of the Census 

[Docket Number 090302265–91138–02] 

Procedures for Participating in the 

Appeals Process for the 2010 

Decennial Census Local Update of 

Census Addresses (LUCA) Program 

AGENCIES: Office of Information and 

Regulatory Affairs, Office of 

Management and Budget; and Bureau of 

the Census, Department of Commerce. 

ACTION: Final notice. 

SUMMARY: As part of implementing the 

Census Address List Improvement Act 

of 1994, the Office of Management and 

Budget (OMB) and the Bureau of the 

Census (Census Bureau) publish this 

notice to provide information on the 

final procedures for the Appeals Process 

whereby tribal, State, and local 

governments participating in the 2010 

Decennial Census Local Update of 

Census Addresses (LUCA) Program may 

appeal determinations made by the 

Census Bureau with respect to their 

suggested changes to the 2010 Census 

Address List. This notice also 

summarizes the comments received on 

the proposed procedures published in a 

March 31, 2009, Federal Register notice 

(74 FR 14696). For information 

purposes, this notice also describes the 

LUCA Feedback materials that the 

Census Bureau will provide to 

participating governments and how 

those governments can use the materials 

as the basis for an Appeal. 

Electronic Availability: This notice is 

available on the Internet from the OMB 

Web site at http://www.whitehouse.gov/ 

omb/fedreg_default/. 

DATES: These LUCA Appeals Process 

procedures, which reflect revisions 

based on public comment following 

publication of draft procedures, will be 

implemented on September 15, 2009. 

ADDRESSES: Correspondence concerning 

the Appeals Process may be submitted 

through one of the following methods: 

• Fax: Correspondence may be faxed 

to Katherine K. Wallman, Chief 

Statistician, Office of Management and 

Budget, fax number (202) 395–7245. 

• E-mail: Correspondence may be 

sent to 

2010AppealsProcess@omb.eop.gov, 

with the subject 2010 Appeals Process. 

Correspondence about the 2010 

Census LUCA Program in general 

should be sent to Arnold A. Jackson, 

Associate Director for Decennial Census, 

U.S. Census Bureau, Washington, DC 

20233, telephone (301) 763–8626, fax 

number (301) 763–8867, e-mail 

Arnold.A.Jackson@census.gov. 

Because of delays in the receipt of 

regular mail due to security screening, 

you are encouraged to use fax or e-mail 

to transmit any inquiries. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

information about the Appeals Process, 

contact Suzann Evinger, Office of 

Management and Budget, 10201 New 

Executive Office Building, Washington, 

DC 20503, telephone (202) 395–7315; 

fax number (202) 395–7245. For 

information about the Census Bureau’s 

2010 Census LUCA Program, contact 

Timothy F. Trainor, Chief, Geography 

Division, U.S. Census Bureau, 

Washington, DC 20233–7400, telephone 

(301) 763–2131; fax (301) 763–4710. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

The Census Address List Improvement 

Act of 1994 

The Census Address List 

Improvement Act of 1994 (Pub. L. 103– 

430, 108 Stat 4393 (1994)) mandates the 

establishment of a program to be used 

by the Census Bureau for developing the 

decennial census address list and 

address lists for other censuses and 

surveys conducted by the Bureau. The 

Act’s provisions direct the Secretary of 

Commerce to: (1) Publish standards 

defining the content and structure of 

address information that tribal, State, 

and local governments may submit to be 

used for developing a national address 

list; (2) develop and publish a timetable 

for the Census Bureau to receive, 

review, and respond to submissions; 

and (3) provide a response to the 

submissions regarding the Census 

Bureau’s determination for each 

address. The Act provides further that 

OMB’s Administrator of the Office of 

Information and Regulatory Affairs, 

acting through the Chief Statistician and 

in consultation with the Census Bureau, 

shall develop a process for tribal, State, 

and local governments to appeal 

determinations of the Census Bureau. 

The Act also directs the U.S. Postal 

Service to provide the Secretary of 

Commerce with address information, as 

appropriate, for use by the Census 

Bureau. 

The Act authorizes the Census Bureau 

to provide designated officials of tribal, 

State, and local governments with 

access to census addresses information. 

Prior to the 2000 Census, the Census 

Bureau was limited to providing block 

summary totals of addresses to tribal 

and local governments. The 2000 

Census marked the first decennial 

census where tribal and local 

governments were able to review the 

census address list. 

Summary of Comments Received in 

Response to the Proposed Appeals 

Process 

On March 31, 2009, OMB and the 

Census Bureau issued a Federal 

Register notice (74 FR 14696) requesting 

comments on the proposed procedures 

for participating in the Appeals Process 

for the 2010 Census LUCA Program. 

Two comments were received on the 

proposal during the comment period. 

This notice issues final procedures that 

incorporate changes made as a result of 

the comments received. 

A summary of the public comments 

and the response of OMB and the 

Census Bureau are provided below. 

Comment 1. One commenter 

contended that the requirement for 

including a post office name as a 

component of appealed addresses was 

confusing and unnecessary, since that 

was not a requirement of initial LUCA 

review of the Census Address List. The 

commenter also suggested that the 

examples listed in the procedures of 

sources of supporting documentation 

that could be used to support Appeals 

include State databases and services 

such as driver’s licenses, vehicle 

registrations, and voter registrations. 

OMB and the Census Bureau adopted 

both of these suggestions for the final 

procedures. 

Comment 2. Another commenter 

suggested that an aerial map printed 

from an online mapping service and 

accompanied by a parcel map submitted 

as supporting evidence for the existence 

and location of appealed addresses 

would be an efficient way for local 

governments to gather supporting 

evidence. OMB and the Census Bureau 

agree that aerial maps from online 

mapping services may be suitable as 

supporting documentation provided 

that the confidentiality of the census 

address list is maintained. 

The OMB Office of Information and 

Regulatory Affairs Administrator’s 

2010 LUCA Appeals Process 

To ensure that tribal, State, and local 

governments participating in the 2010 

Decennial Census LUCA Program have 

a means to appeal the Census Bureau’s 

determinations, the Census Address List 

Improvement Act of 1994 requires that 

the Administrator of OMB’s Office of 

Information and Regulatory Affairs, 

acting through the Chief Statistician and 

in consultation with the Census Bureau, 

develop an Appeals Process to resolve 

any disagreements that may remain after 

participating governments receive the 

Census Bureau’s LUCA Feedback 


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materials. This section describes the 

final procedures for that Appeals 

Process. For reference, the Appeals 

Process that was used for the 2000 

Census is described in the Federal 

Register notice published on June 30, 

1999 (64 FR 35548). Also, for reference 

purposes only, the section that 

immediately follows the Appeals 

Process, entitled ‘‘The Census Bureau’s 

2010 Decennial Census LUCA 

Program,’’ describes the alreadycompleted phase of the program. 

A. Overview of the Appeals Process 

Governmental jurisdictions that 

participated in LUCA Option 1 or LUCA 

Option 2 and completed a review of 

2010 Census LUCA materials may file 

an Appeal if they meet the eligibility 

criteria. Jurisdictions that participated 

in LUCA Option 3 are not eligible to 

appeal. Appeals must be filed within 30 

calendar days from the date the 

participant receives its LUCA Feedback 

materials. Appeals filed after the 

deadline will be denied as untimely. 

When filing an Appeal, eligible 

participants must include supporting 

documentation that substantiates the 

existence and location of each appealed 

address. Eligible participants may file 

an Appeal with the 2010 Decennial 

Census LUCA Appeals Staff, a 

temporary Federal entity set up to 

administer the Appeals Process. Appeal 

decisions will be based solely on a 

review of written documentation 

provided to the Appeals Staff by the 

eligible government. The decision of the 

Appeals Staff will be final. The Appeals 

Staff is scheduled to conclude its review 

of Appeal submissions by March 31, 

2010. Specific eligibility criteria and 

detailed requirements for Appeal 

submissions are provided below. 

B. Appeal Procedures for Option 1— 

Title 13 Full Address List Review LUCA 

Program Participants 

1. Eligibility Criteria for Filing an 

Appeal 

Option 1 participating governments 

are eligible to file an Appeal if they (1) 

Returned additions to, or corrections of, 

the 2010 Decennial Census Address 

List, or (2) challenged the count of 

addresses in one or more census blocks 

on the 2010 Decennial Census Address 

Count List after their LUCA review, or 

(3) certified to the Census Bureau after 

their LUCA review that the 2010 

Decennial Census Address List was 

correct and required no update. 

Eligible Option 1 participating 

governments may appeal (1) Address 

additions and corrections they provided 

after their initial review of the 2010 

Census Address List that the Census 

Bureau was able to process, but 

ultimately did not accept, (2) addresses 

they believe are still missing from 

blocks whose address count they 

challenged during their LUCA review of 

the Address Count List, and (3) 

addresses that were deleted from the 

2010 Decennial Census Address List by 

the Census Bureau during the Address 

Canvassing Operation that were not 

commented on by participants during 

their initial LUCA review. 

When filing an Appeal, eligible LUCA 

Program participants must provide (1) 

Contact information for the 

governmental jurisdiction filing the 

Appeal, (2) address information for each 

address being appealed, and (3) 

supporting documentation that 

substantiates the existence and/or 

location of each address being appealed 

as specified below. 

2. Contact Information 

Eligible participants must provide the 

following contact information for the 

governmental jurisdiction filing the 

Appeal: 

a. Name of the governmental 

jurisdiction, and 

b. Name, mailing address, telephone 

number, fax number, and electronic 

mail address (if any) of that 

jurisdiction’s contact person for the 

Appeal. 

3. Address Information 

a. Eligible participants must provide 

the following six items of information to 

appeal the Census Bureau’s rejection of 

the submission of a new address to be 

added to, or a correction to an existing 

address on, the Census Address List (as 

evidenced by the Census Bureau’s final 

determination code for that address on 

the Detailed Feedback Address List), 

OR 

to appeal the Census Bureau’s 

deletion of an address during the 

Address Canvassing Operation that was 

not previously commented on by the 

participant during its initial LUCA 

review (as indicated for that address on 

the Detailed Feedback Address List): 

(1) Complete address (including the 

house number, unit designator if 

applicable, street name, street direction, 

street type, and ZIP Code) or, if there is 

no address, a location description of the 

housing unit or other living quarters. 

(2) Master Address File identification 

number. 

(3) Census Tract number. 

(4) Census Block number. 

(5) Participant submitted action code. 

(6) Census Bureau’s Processing Code. 

Eligible participants may submit their 

appealed address information by 

designating the addresses on a copy of 

their paper Detailed Feedback Address 

List, as an extract file of addresses from 

their computer-readable Detailed 

Feedback Address List, or as a separate 

printed list. Technical requirements for 

submitting appealed addresses in 

computer-readable form will be 

included in the user guides to the LUCA 

Feedback materials that the Census 

Bureau will send to participating 

governments. 

b. To appeal the omission of 

addresses the eligible participant 

believes are still missing from blocks 

whose address counts the participant 

challenged previously during its initial 

LUCA review (as evidenced by the 

revised address counts for those blocks 

on the Detailed Feedback Address 

Count Challenge List), provide the 

following items of information for each 

missing address: 

(1) Complete address (including the 

house number, unit designator if 

applicable, street name, street direction, 

street type, and ZIP Code) or, if there is 

no address, a location description of the 

housing unit or other living quarters. 

(2) Census Tract number from the 

map or shapefile. 

(3) Census Block number from the 

map or shapefile. 

Eligible participants may submit their 

appealed addresses by entering them on 

Appeal Address Add Pages that will be 

supplied by the Census Bureau with the 

LUCA Feedback materials, or they may 

submit them in computer-readable form. 

Technical requirements for submitting 

appealed addresses in computerreadable form will be included in the 

user guides to the LUCA Feedback 

materials that the Census Bureau will 

send to participating governments. 

4. Supporting Documentation 

Eligible participants must provide 

supporting documentation for each 

appealed address as specified below in 

section E, ‘‘Supporting Documentation 

an Eligible Government Must File with 

an Appeal.’’ 

C. Appeal Procedures for Option 2— 

Title 13 Local Address List Submission 

LUCA Program Participants 

1. Eligibility Criteria for Filing an 

Appeal 

Option 2 participants are eligible to 

file an Appeal if they: (1) Returned their 

local city-style address list, or (2) 

certified to the Census Bureau after their 

LUCA review that the 2010 Census 

Address List was correct and required 

no update. Option 2 participants may 

appeal: (1) Address additions and 

corrections they provided after their 


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initial review of the 2010 Census 

Address List that the Census Bureau 

was able to process, but ultimately did 

not accept (as evidenced by the Census 

Bureau’s final determination code for 

that address on the Detailed Feedback 

Address List) and (2) the Census 

Bureau’s deletion of an address from the 

2010 Census Address List during the 

Address Canvassing Operation (as 

indicated for that address on the 

Detailed Feedback Address List). 

When filing an Appeal, jurisdictions 

must provide: (1) Contact information 

for the jurisdiction, (2) address 

information for each address being 

appealed, and (3) supporting 

documentation that substantiates the 

existence and/or location of each 

address being appealed as specified 

below. 

2. Contact Information 

Eligible participants must provide the 

following contact information for the 

governmental jurisdiction filing the 

Appeal: 

a. Name of the eligible jurisdiction, 

and 

b. Name, mailing address, telephone 

number, fax number, and electronic 

mail address (if any) of that 

jurisdiction’s contact person for the 

Appeal. 

3. Address Information 

Eligible participants must provide the 

following information for each address 

that is being appealed: 

a. Complete address (including the 

house number, unit designator if 

applicable, street name, street direction, 

street type, and ZIP Code) or a location 

description of the housing unit or other 

living quarters. 

b. Master Address File identification 

number. 

c. Census Tract number from the map 

or shapefile. 

d. Census Block number from the map 

or shapefile. 

e. Census Bureau’s Processing Code. 

Eligible participants may submit their 

appealed address information by 

designating the addresses on a copy of 

their paper Detailed Feedback Address 

List, as an extract file of addresses from 

their computer-readable Detailed 

Feedback Address List, or as a separate 

printed list. Technical requirements for 

submitting appealed addresses in 

computer-readable form will be 

included in the user guides to the LUCA 

Feedback materials that the Census 

Bureau will send to participating 

governments. 

4. Supporting Documentation 

Eligible participants must provide 

supporting documentation for each 

appealed address as specified below in 

section E, ‘‘Supporting Documentation 

That Must File With an Appeal.’’ 

D. Appeal Procedures for Option 3— 

Non-Title 13 Local Address List 

Submission LUCA Participants 

Option 3 participants are not eligible 

to file an Appeal because these 

participants do not receive the detailed 

address level feedback materials 

required as the basis for an Appeal. 

E. Supporting Documentation That Must 

Be Filed With an Appeal 

The Appeals decisions will be based 

solely on a review of written 

documentation provided by the eligible 

participating government and the 

Census Bureau. Eligible participating 

governments must submit the following 

supporting documentation with their 

Appeals: 

1. A written statement that outlines 

the eligible participating government’s 

position for why the Appeals Staff 

should adopt its recommendations. The 

statement must specifically respond to 

the explanation that accompanied the 

Census Bureau’s LUCA Feedback 

materials. 

2. For each address (or group of 

addresses), supporting documentary 

evidence, including a reference to the 

exact location on the supporting 

documentation where the Appeals Staff 

can find specific evidence, supporting 

the eligible government’s position with 

respect to the existence or correctness of 

that address. Useful types of supporting 

evidence include: 

a. Documentation of an on-site 

inspection and/or interview of residents 

and/or neighbors. 

b. Issuance of a recent occupancy 

permit for the unit. (Building permits 

are not acceptable, as they do not ensure 

that the units have been built and/or are 

occupied.) 

c. Provision of utilities (electricity, 

gas, sewer, water, telephone, etc.) to the 

residence. The utility record should 

show that this is not a service to a 

commercial unit, or an additional 

service to an existing residence (such as 

a second telephone line). 

d. Provision of other governmental 

services (driver’s licenses, vehicle 

registrations, voter registrations, 

housing assistance, welfare, etc.) to 

residents of the unit. 

e. Photography, including aerial 

photography. 

f. Aerial maps printed from an online 

mapping service. 

g. Land use maps. 

h. Local 911 emergency lists, if they 

distinguish residential from commercial 

units. 

i. Tax assessment records, if they 

distinguish residential from commercial 

units. 

3. Information that demonstrates the 

quality of address or map reference 

sources provided as supporting 

evidence such as: 

a. Date of the address source. 

b. How often the address source is 

updated. 

c. Methods used to update the source. 

d. Quality assurance procedure(s) 

used in maintaining the address source. 

e. How the address source is used by 

the eligible government and/or by the 

originator of the source. 

All Appeal documentation must be 

filed with the Appeals Staff within 30 

calendar days after the eligible 

participating government’s receipt of its 

LUCA Feedback materials. The eligible 

jurisdiction may not submit any 

materials to the Appeals Staff after the 

30-day period has elapsed. 

F. Deadline To File Appeals 

Appeals must be filed by the eligible 

participating government within 30 

calendar days after that government’s 

receipt of the LUCA Feedback materials. 

‘‘Receipt’’ as used herein is defined as 

the delivery date reported to the Census 

Bureau by the delivery service that 

transmits the feedback materials to the 

eligible participating government. In 

order to safeguard the confidential 

address materials covered by Title 13, 

the transmitting of an Appeal to the 

2010 Decennial Census LUCA Appeals 

Staff must adhere to the Census 

Bureau’s specific guidelines for 

shipping materials. The guidelines will 

be supplied with the feedback materials. 

The guidelines specifically prohibit the 

use of e-mail or fax as secure modes of 

transmitting confidential materials. The 

eligible participating government 

should transmit its Appeal materials to 

the Appeals Staff via regular or Express 

Mail or overnight delivery service, and 

must keep a record of the date it 

transmits these materials. The ‘‘filing 

date’’ for the Appeal shall be the date 

the Appeal is postmarked or the date it 

is shipped by the delivery service. All 

Appeals filed after the deadline will be 

denied as untimely. 

G. Where To File an Appeal 

Appeals must be sent to the 2010 

Decennial Census LUCA Appeals Staff, 

the address for which will be supplied 

with the feedback materials. Upon 

receipt of an Appeal, the LUCA Appeals 

Staff will send a confirmation to the 

eligible jurisdiction that its Appeal has 

been received. The Appeals Staff also 

will notify the Census Bureau that the 

Appeal has been filed. 


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H. The Appeals Review and Final 

Decision Process 

The Appeals Process will be 

administered by the 2010 Decennial 

Census LUCA Appeals Staff, a 

temporary Federal entity. The Appeals 

Staff will include Appeals Officers who 

are trained in the procedures for 

processing an Appeal and in the 

examination and analysis of address list 

information, locations of addresses and 

housing units, and supporting materials. 

For each Appeal, an Appeals Officer 

will review the Census Bureau’s 

feedback materials and the written 

documentation and supporting evidence 

submitted by the eligible government 

and consider the quality of the address 

reference source as the basis for 

determining the validity of an address 

(or group of addresses) and its (their) 

location(s). No testimony or oral 

argument will be received by the 

Appeals Officer. 

At the conclusion of the review of an 

appealed address (or group of 

addresses), the Appeals Officer will 

prepare a draft written determination. 

The draft written determination will be 

reviewed by a higher-level official on 

the Appeals Staff. The Director of the 

Appeals Staff (or his or her designee) 

will then issue a final written 

determination to both the eligible 

government and the Census Bureau. The 

final written determination will include 

a brief explanation of the Appeals Staff’s 

decision, and will specify how the 

appealed address(es) or its (their) 

location(s) should appear on the 2010 

Decennial Census Address List. Each 

final written determination shall 

become part of the administrative record 

of the Appeals Process. 

The Appeals Staff’s decision is final. 

The Census Bureau will include on the 

2010 Decennial Census Address List 

used for subsequent census operations 

all addresses added to, or corrected in, 

the 2010 Census Address List as a result 

of the Appeals Process, and attempt to 

locate and enumerate them. Inclusion of 

an address on the list does not mean 

that a living quarters with that address 

exists or that the address will be 

included in the final 2010 data 

summaries. The census-taking process 

will determine the inclusion status of 

the address—whether or not it is 

actually a housing unit—and the final 

population and housing unit status for 

each address. 

I. Completion of the Appeals Process 

Appeals reviews will be completed 

and written determinations issued to the 

concerned parties as soon as possible. 

The Census Address List Improvement 

Act of 1994 (Pub. L. 103–430, 108 Stat 

4393 (1994)) requires that all Appeals be 

resolved before the decennial census 

date (April 1, 2010). 

The Census Bureau’s 2010 Decennial 

Census LUCA Program 

The Census Bureau and OMB provide 

below a summary of the procedures for 

participation in the 2010 Decennial 

Census LUCA Program. This 

information is being provided below for 

reference purposes only; the 2010 

Decennial Census LUCA Program has 

concluded. Please see the notice 

published in Federal Register on March 

7, 2008, (73 FR 12369) for more 

information on the program. 

For the 2010 LUCA Program, 

participating governmental jurisdictions 

chose one of three participation options 

for reviewing the census address list 

and/or submitting their own local 

residential address information to the 

Census Bureau. In addition, they could 

opt to receive materials in paper or 

computer-readable formats, or use 

Census Bureau-supplied software to 

update their jurisdiction’s map features 

and address list. Jurisdictions with more 

than 6,000 addresses were required to 

participate using a computer-readable 

address list or the Census Bureausupplied software. All LUCA 

participants were required to ‘‘geocode’’ 

(i.e., identify for an individual address 

its correct geographic location including 

the correct State, county, census tract, 

and census block codes) each city-style 

address they added or submitted. The 

census tract and census block numbers 

are displayed on the Census Bureausupplied maps, digital shapefiles, and 

software tool. Additionally, all LUCA 

participants could make updates and 

corrections to the features and 

boundaries on the Census Bureausupplied maps or digital shapefiles. 

Described below are the three options 

that tribal, State, and local governments 

could have used to participate in the 

2010 Decennial Census LUCA Program. 

Option 1—Title 13 Full Address List 

Review 

The Option 1 Full Address List 

Review option required that the 

participant sign a Confidentiality 

Agreement in accordance with Title 13, 

United States Code (U.S.C.) to maintain 

the confidentiality of the census address 

information they received from the 

Census Bureau for review. The Full 

Address List Review participants 

received the 2010 Decennial Census 

LUCA Address List, the 2010 Decennial 

Census LUCA Address Count List 

(providing a count of addresses within 

each census block), and census maps or 

digital shapefiles of their jurisdiction. 

Participants who selected this option 

were required to have the means to 

secure the census address list 

containing Title 13 information. 

Although the LUCA Address List 

contained both city-style (e.g., house 

number, street name, ZIP Code) and 

noncity-style (e.g., rural route/box 

number, post office box number, general 

delivery, location description) 

addresses, participants could only add 

and/or provide updates to city-style 

addresses. In addition, Option 1 

participants could challenge the address 

count for any census block on their 

LUCA Address Count List. If the entire 

governmental jurisdiction contained 

only noncity-style addresses, Option 1 

was the only LUCA Program option the 

jurisdiction could choose. Participants 

with both city-style and noncity-style 

addresses could not provide updates for 

individual addresses on the LUCA 

Address List and challenge the count of 

addresses on the LUCA Address Count 

List within the same census block. 

Option 2—Title 13 Local Address List 

Submission 

The Option 2 Title 13 Local Address 

List Submission option required that the 

participants sign a Confidentiality 

Agreement in accordance with Title 13, 

U.S.C., to maintain the confidentiality of 

the census address information they 

received from the Census Bureau. This 

was a new LUCA option for the 2010 

Census intended for those participants 

who did not have the time or resources 

to update the 2010 Decennial Census 

LUCA Address List, but wished to 

submit their local residential address 

list for Census Bureau use. Participants 

who selected this option were required 

to have the means to secure the census 

address list containing Title 13 

information. 

Although Option 2 participants 

received both the LUCA Address List 

containing residential city-style and 

noncity-style addresses and the LUCA 

Address Count List, these materials 

could only be used for reference 

purposes. Option 2 LUCA participants 

were required to submit their local citystyle address list in a Census Bureaudefined computer-readable format. The 

Census Bureau did not accept Option 2 

LUCA participants’ local address lists in 

paper format and did not accept local 

address lists containing noncity-style 

addresses. 

Option 3—Non-Title 13 Local Address 

List Submission 

The Option 3 Non-Title 13 Local 

Address List Submission option was 

also a new LUCA option for the 2010 


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Census. Under Option 3, participants 

could choose not to receive and review 

the 2010 Decennial Census LUCA 

Address List for their jurisdiction, and 

not to be required to sign a 

Confidentiality Agreement. Instead, the 

participants received the 2010 

Decennial Census LUCA Address Count 

List in computer-readable format for 

reference purposes only. Option 3 

LUCA participants were required to 

submit their local city-style address list 

in a Census Bureau-defined computerreadable format. The Census Bureau did 

not accept Option 3 LUCA participants’ 

local address lists in paper format and 

did not accept local address lists 

containing noncity-style addresses. 

The Census Bureau’s 2010 Decennial 

Census Address Canvassing Operation 

The Census Bureau conducted a 

nationwide field check called the 

Address Canvassing Operation to verify 

the census address list, including the 

qualifying updates supplied by 2010 

Census LUCA participants. The 

operation began in March of 2009. 

During this operation, Census Bureau 

field staff added, deleted, and corrected 

entries on the Census Address List and 

made needed corrections to census 

maps. The Census Bureau’s feedback to 

LUCA Program participants, conveying 

the Census Bureau’s determinations on 

their submissions of additions and 

updates to census address information, 

will be based on the results of Address 

Canvassing. 

The 2010 Decennial Census LUCA 

Feedback Materials 

The Census Bureau will provide 2010 

LUCA Feedback materials to qualifying 

governmental jurisdictions on a flow 

basis starting in October 2009, and 

ending in December 2009. The majority 

of LUCA Program participants will 

receive their feedback materials in the 

same media format that they requested 

for the initial 2010 Census LUCA review 

materials. Although the initial LUCA 

review materials stated that the Census 

Bureau would provide structure 

coordinates (map spots) for the feedback 

phase of the program, the Census 

Bureau will not provide them for 

housing units collected during the 2009 

Address Canvassing Operation due to 

schedule changes that have delayed the 

timing of coordinate processing. 

The Census Bureau will provide the 

LUCA Feedback materials after 

completing the following steps: 

(1) For jurisdictions that submitted 

address updates to the 2010 Decennial 

Census LUCA Address List or submitted 

their local address list, the Census 

Bureau will review and apply each 

correctly submitted participant address 

update to its address list, adding any 

new addresses not already on its list. 

(2) The Census Bureau will conduct 

the Address Canvassing Operation and 

in the course of doing so will verify the 

participant suggested address updates 

(additions, corrections, deletions, etc.). 

The Address Canvassing Operation will 

ensure that all address updates and 

additions exist and that they are in the 

correct census block. 

Potential group quarters (GQs) 

addresses are identified as ‘‘other living 

quarters’’ for the feedback phase of the 

LUCA Program. Addresses identified in 

the Address Canvassing operation as 

potentially being GQs are later classified 

as group quarters, housing units, or 

nonresidential during a separate Census 

Bureau operation, the Group Quarters 

Validation, scheduled for October 2009. 

Described below are the 2010 Census 

LUCA Feedback materials that LUCA 

Program participants will receive under 

each of the three participation options. 

LUCA Feedback for Option 1—Title 13 

Full Address List Review Participants 

The Census Bureau will provide 2010 

Census LUCA Feedback materials to 

Option 1 tribal, State, or local 

governments that took any of the 

following actions: 

(1) Submitted updates (i.e., additions, 

corrections, deletions) to city-style 

addresses on the 2010 Census LUCA 

Address List. 

(2) Challenged the housing unit 

address count and/or group quarters 

address count for one or more census 

blocks on the 2010 Census LUCA 

Address Count List. 

(3) Updated the Census Bureau maps. 

(4) Certified to the Census Bureau at 

the end of their LUCA review that the 

2010 Census LUCA Address List was 

correct and needed no update. 

The 2010 Census LUCA Feedback 

materials that the Census Bureau will 

provide to each Option 1 participating 

government will document which local 

address additions and updates the 

Census Bureau accepted or did not 

accept. The 2010 Census LUCA 

Feedback materials include: 

(1) A Full Address List that contains 

all of the residential addresses currently 

recorded in the Census Address List 

within the participant’s jurisdiction. 

This address list will reflect the results 

of the jurisdiction’s participation in the 

2010 Census LUCA Program, the 

Address Canvassing Operation, and 

updates from other sources. 

(2) A Detailed Feedback Address List 

that shows each address record addition 

and update submitted by the participant 

and a processing code that identifies a 

specific action taken by the Census 

Bureau on that address record. The 

Detailed Feedback Address List will 

also identify addresses deleted in the 

Address Canvassing Operation. 

(3) A Full Address Count List that 

shows the current residential address 

counts, including those for housing 

units and other living quarters, for each 

census block within the participant’s 

jurisdiction. 

(4) A Detailed Feedback Address 

Count Challenge List that shows address 

counts only for those census blocks 

challenged by the participant or where 

the address count decreased as a result 

of Census Bureau operations. 

Note—On the Detailed Feedback Address 

List and the Detailed Feedback Address 

Count Challenge List, addresses will be 

reported only with 4-digit basic block 

numbers instead of any suffixed block 

numbers that may appear on the other 

feedback materials. These block numbers will 

not be suffixed. 

(5) A Feedback Address Update 

Summary Report that displays the 

tallies of actions taken by the Census 

Bureau for all of the address updates 

submitted by the participant. 

(6) Feedback maps may include 

feature updates provided by the 

participant and/or other updates found 

by the Census Bureau during the 

Address Canvassing Operation. 

Boundary updates from the 2009 

Boundary and Annexation Survey 

submitted after March 1, 2009, may not 

be reflected. 

Note—The 4-digit block number on the 

Full Address List, Full Address Count List, 

and Feedback maps will be identical to those 

appearing on the initial LUCA review 

materials. However, the suffixes associated 

with the 4-digit basic block numbers may 

have no correlation to the suffixes on the 

initial review materials. 

LUCA Feedback for Option 2—Title 13 

Local Address List Submission 

Participants 

The Census Bureau will provide 2010 

Census LUCA Feedback materials to 

Option 2 tribal, State, or local 

governments that took any of the 

following actions: 

(1) Submitted their local city-style 

address list. 

(2) Updated the Census Bureau maps. 

(3) Certified to the Census Bureau at 

the end of their LUCA review that the 

2010 Census Address List was correct 

and a local address list submission was 

not needed. 

The 2010 Census LUCA Feedback 

materials that the Census Bureau will 

provide to each Option 2 participating 

government will document which local 

address submissions the Census Bureau 

accepted or did not accept. The 2010 

LUCA Feedback materials include: 


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(1) A Full Address List that contains 

all of the residential addresses for those 

housing units and other living quarters 

currently recorded in the Census 

Address File within the participant’s 

jurisdiction. This address list will 

reflect the results of the jurisdiction’s 

participation in the 2010 Census LUCA 

Program, the Address Canvassing 

Operation, and other sources. 

(2) A Detailed Feedback Address List 

that shows each address record 

submitted by the participant and a 

processing code that identifies a specific 

action taken by the Census Bureau on 

that address record. The Detailed 

Feedback Address List will also identify 

addresses deleted in the Address 

Canvassing Operation. 

Note—On the Detailed Feedback Address 

List, addresses will be reported only with 4- 

digit basic block numbers instead of any 

suffixed block numbers that may appear on 

the other feedback materials. These block 

numbers will not be suffixed. 

(3) A Full Address Count List that 

shows the current residential address 

counts, including those for housing 

units and other living quarters, for each 

census block within the participant’s 

jurisdiction. 

(4) A Detailed Feedback Address 

Count Challenge List that shows address 

counts only where the address count 

decreased as a result of Census Bureau 

operations. 

Note—On the Detailed Feedback Address 

List and the Detailed Feedback Address 

Count Challenge List, addresses will be 

reported only with 4-digit basic block 

numbers instead of any suffixed block 

numbers that may appear on the other 

feedback materials. These block numbers will 

not be suffixed. 

(5) A Feedback Address Update 

Summary Report that displays the 

tallies of actions taken by the Census 

Bureau for all of the addresses 

submitted by the participant. 

(6) Feedback Maps may include 

feature updates provided by the 

participant and/or other updates found 

by the Census Bureau during the 

Address Canvassing Operation. 

Boundary updates from the 2009 

Boundary and Annexation Survey 

submitted after March 1, 2009, may not 

be reflected. 

Note—The 4-digit block number on the 

Full Address List, Full Address Count List, 

and Feedback maps will be identical to those 

appearing on the initial LUCA review 

materials. However, the suffixes associated 

with the 4-digit basic block numbers may 

have no correlation to the suffixes on the 

initial review materials. 

LUCA Feedback for Option 3—Non-Title 

13 Local Address List Submission 

Participants 

The Census Bureau will provide 2010 

Census LUCA Feedback materials to 

Option 3 tribal, State, or local 

governments that took any of the 

following actions: 

(1) Submitted their local city-style 

address list. 

(2) Updated the Census Bureau maps. 

(3) Certified to the Census Bureau at 

the end of their LUCA review that the 

2010 Census Address Count List was 

correct and a local address list 

submission was not needed. 

The 2010 Census LUCA Feedback 

materials that the Census Bureau will 

provide to each Option 3 participating 

government include: 

(1) Feedback Maps that may include 

feature updates provided by the 

participant and/or other updates found 

by the Census Bureau during the 

Address Canvassing Operation. 

(2) A Feedback Address Update 

Summary Report. 

Note—The 4-digit block number on the 

Feedback maps will be identical to those 

appearing on the initial LUCA review 

materials. However, the suffixes associated 

with the 4-digit basic block numbers may 

have no correlation to the suffixes on the 

initial review materials. 

The LUCA Feedback for Option 3 

participants does not include a Full 

Address List, Detailed Feedback 

Address List, a Detailed Feedback 

Address Count Challenge List, or a Full 

Address Count List. 

Participants under all three options 

that submitted map updates only 

without certifying that their address 

lists were correct will only receive 

maps/shapefiles as feedback. 

Executive Order 12866 

This notice has been determined to be 

not significant under Executive Order 

12866. 

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) unless that 

collection of information displays a 

current, valid Office of Management and 

Budget (OMB) control number. In 

accordance with the PRA, 44 U.S.C., 

Chapter 35, the Census Bureau 

requested, and OMB granted its 

clearance for, the initial mailout of 

informational materials for this program 

on June 19, 2009, (OMB Control Number 

0607–0795, expires on April 30, 2012). 

The Census Bureau approval request for 

remainder of the Appeals Process has 

yet to be submitted. 

Kevin F. Neyland, 

Acting Administrator, Office of Information 

and Regulatory Affairs. 

Robert M. Groves, 

Director, Bureau of the Census. 

[FR Doc. E9–22172 Filed 9–14–09; 8:45 am] 

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