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1There are no CDPs in American Samoa because

incorporated villages cover its entire territory and

population.

Accordingly, the following

commodities and services are hereby

added to the Procurement List:

Commodities

Office and Miscellaneous Supplies

(Requirements for the Redstone Arsenal

Support Activity, Alabama)

Office and Miscellaneous Supplies

(Requirements for the Anniston Army

Depot, Alabama)

Office and Miscellaneous Supplies

(Requirements for the Seymour-Johnson

Air Force Base, North Carolina)

Business Cards

7510–00–NIB–0240 (250 per box)

7510–00–NIB–0265 (500 per box)

7510–00–NIB–0266 (1000 per box)

Dropcloth

8340–01–444–3652

8340–01–444–3653

Services

Commissary Shelf Stocking & Custodial

Redstone Arsenal

Huntsville, Alabama

Food Service

Randolph Air Force Base, Texas

Mailroom Operation

for the following Washington, DC

locations:

U.S. Department of Transportation

Headquarters

Nassif Building, 400 Seventh Street, SW

Federal Aviation Administration

Buildings FOB 10A & 10B, 800

Independence Avenue, SW

U.S. Coast Guard Headquarters

Transpoint Building, 2100 2nd Street,

SW

Switchboard Operation

Department of Veterans’ Affairs Medical

Center

800 Zorn Avenue

Louisville, Kentucky

This action does not affect current

contracts awarded prior to the effective

date of this addition or options that may

be exercised under those contracts.

Beverly L. Milkman,

Executive Director.

[FR Doc. 97–22340 Filed 8–21–97; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6353–01–P

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Bureau of the Census

[Docket No. 970728183–7183–01]

Census Designated Place (CDP)

Program for Census 2000—Final

Criteria

AGENCY: Bureau of the Census,

Commerce.

ACTION: Notice of final program.

SUMMARY: Census designated places

(CDPs) are statistical geographic entities,

defined for each decennial census,

consisting of a closely settled, locally

recognized concentration of population

that is identified by name. The Census

Bureau uses CDPs to tabulate and

publish data for localities that otherwise

would not be identified as places in the

decennial census data products.

Although not as numerous as

incorporated places, CDPs have been

important geographic entities since the

Census Bureau first introduced them for

the 1950 census. In 1990, more than 29

million people in the United States

lived in CDPs. To determine the

inventory of CDPs, the Census Bureau

offers a program to local participants,

such as American Indian tribal officials

and locally identified agencies, whereby

they can review and update the

geographic definition of CDPs defined

during the previous census and suggest

new CDPs according to criteria

developed and promulgated by the

Census Bureau. The Census Bureau then

reviews the resulting CDP delineations

for conformance to these criteria. The

Census Bureau does not take into

account nor attempt to anticipate any

nonstatistical uses that may be made of

CDPs, nor will the Census Bureau

modify the definition of CDPs to meet

the requirements of any nonstatistical

program.

The Census Bureau is publishing final

criteria for the delineation of CDPs for

Census 2000. These criteria will apply

to the 50 states, American Indian and

Alaska Native areas, Puerto Rico, and all

other Island Areas in Census 2000

except American Samoa.1 The Census

Bureau may modify, or, if necessary,

reject any CDP that does not meet the

criteria announced in this notice. The

Census Bureau also may define CDPs in

instances where clear evidence of a

place exists, but for which local officials

did not submit boundaries.

In addition to the criteria, this notice

includes a description of the changes

from the previous criteria and a list of

definitions of key terms used in the

criteria.

EFFECTIVE DATE: The CDP criteria for

Census 2000 become effective

September 22, 1997.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr.

Joel Morrison, Chief, Geography

Division, Bureau of the Census,

Washington, DC 20233–7400, telephone

(301) 457–1132, or e-mail

(jmorrison@geo.census.gov).

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The CDP

delineation criteria have evolved over

the decades in response to census

practices and the preferences of data

users. After each decennial census, the

Census Bureau, in consultation with

data users, reviews and revises these

criteria. Then, before the next decennial

census, the Census Bureau offers state,

tribal, and local officials an opportunity

to correct, update, and otherwise

improve the universe of CDPs.

In July and August 1995, the Census

Bureau issued invitations to local

groups and agencies to participate in the

delineation of statistical geographic

entities for Census 2000. These included

regional planning agencies, councils of

governments, county planning agencies,

officials of American Indian tribes, and

officials of the 12 nonprofit Alaska

Native Regional Corporations.

By early 1998, the Census Bureau will

provide program participants with maps

and detailed guidelines for delineating

CDPs for Census 2000.

Response To Comments

The Census Bureau issued a Notice of

Proposed Program and Request for

Comments in the Federal Register (61

FR 29524) on Tuesday, June 11, 1996.

That notice solicited comments on the

proposed criteria changes for

delineating CDPs for Census 2000. The

Census Bureau received comments from

eight individuals, including academic

geographers; representatives of

governmental agencies at the Federal,

state, and local levels; a private

consultant; and a representative of a

public interest group. All comments

pertained to the minimum population

threshold for qualification as a CDP.

Specific recommendations for minimum

thresholds varied from 100 to 500

residents, but all agreed that the

proposed minimum threshold of 1,000

residents for CDPs located outside

urbanized areas (UAs) was too high for

most rural communities to qualify for

recognition.

Upon further analysis, the Census

Bureau determined that it could no

longer conceptually support the

maintenance of specific population

thresholds for CDP qualification and,

accordingly, has eliminated population

as a criterion for qualification. This

change will enhance the Census

Bureau’s ability to provide data relating

to a wide variety of unincorporated

places, especially in small rural

communities, throughout the United

States, about which previous censuses

are mute.
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Classification

This notice was determined to be not

significant for purposes of Executive

Order 12866.

The Assistant General Counsel for

Legislation and Regulation, Department

of Commerce, certified to the Chief

Counsel, Small Business

Administration, that this notice will not

have a significant economic impact on

a substantial number of small entities.

The notice sets forth the criteria for the

delineation of Census Designated Places

(CDPs). The criteria will be used to

determine geographic boundaries for

collecting data for Census 2000. The

Census Bureau uses CDPs to tabulate

and publish data for localities that

otherwise would not be identified as

places in the decennial census data

products. Thus, because the delineation

of CDPs is solely for statistical purposes

to enable the Census Bureau to tabulate

and publish data for Census 2000, it will

not have a significant economic impact

on a substantial number of small

entities.

Final Program Requirements

A. Criteria for Delineating CDPs for

Census 2000

The Census Bureau announces the

following criteria for use in determining

the areas which will qualify for

designation as CDPs for Census 2000.

1. General Characteristics

The purpose of the CDP program is to

identify and delineate boundaries for

closely settled, named, unincorporated

communities that generally contain a

mixture of residential, commercial, and

retail areas similar to those found in

incorporated places of similar sizes.

Although the Census Bureau realizes

that places of all sizes and levels of

functionality exist throughout the

United States, it is not the intent of the

CDP program to identify apartment

complexes and residential subdivisions

in densely settled areas or small

crossroads in rural areas. The ideal CDP

will differ from an incorporated city,

town, village, or borough only in regard

to legal status and recognition within its

respective state. Each CDP will contain

an identifiable core area. For the

purposes of the CDP criteria, the term

‘‘core area’’ is defined as the area that

is associated strongly with the CDP

name and contains the majority of the

CDP’s population and housing as well

as commercial structures and economic

activity.

In rural areas, the core may be a

crossroads around which are found a

cluster of houses, commercial

structures, and perhaps a post office that

provide the place identity for the

surrounding countryside. In more urban

areas, the core may be a larger area

consisting of a mixture of residential

and commercial structures focused on a

particular point or extending along

transportation corridors. We ask that

participants in the CDP program

consider the level of influence that the

community has on surrounding areas;

the relationship with, and possible

existence within, a larger named place;

and the relative importance within the

county, town, or township.

2. Names

A CDP must have a locally recognized

name. A CDP name, however, may not

duplicate the name of an adjacent or

nearby incorporated place. It is

permissible to change the name of a

1990 CDP if the new name provides a

better identification of the community.

3. Geographic Relationships

a. A CDP may not be located in more

than one state or state equivalent, nor

may a CDP cross the boundaries of an

American Indian reservation (AIR), trust

land, or a tribal jurisdiction statistical

area (TJSA). A CDP may be located in

more than one county.

b. A CDP may not be located partially

or entirely within an incorporated place

or another CDP.

c. A CDP may not be coextensive with

an Alaska Native village statistical area

(ANVSA). A CDP and an ANVSA,

however, may overlap territory provided

that the two entities are distinguishable

by name.

d. A CDP may not be coextensive with

any higher-level geographic area

recognized by the Census Bureau, such

as county subdivisions, counties, AIRs,

TJSAs, and states. Exceptions will be

made for Arlington County, VA, as well

as areas such as, but not limited to,

towns in the New England states, New

York, and Wisconsin and townships in

Michigan, Minnesota, Pennsylvania,

and New Jersey that generally are

perceived of as places, tend to provide

municipal-style services, and exhibit

urban-type population density patterns

over much, if not all, of the land area

of the entity.

e. The Census Bureau will not accept

plans that delineate ‘‘wall-to-wall’’

CDPs within a county. That is, CDPs

may not cover all or most of the land

area within a county.

4. Boundaries

a. A CDP encompasses, as far as

possible, all the surrounding, closely

settled territory associated with the

place name. A CDP must comprise a

reasonably compact and continuous

land area internally accessible to all

points by road; the only exceptions are:

• Where parts of a CDP are separated

by a narrow corridor of incorporated

territory.

• Where the topography or

geographic patterns of settlement are not

compact, but are irregularly shaped.

Two parts of a CDP, however, may not

be separated by a body of water over

which there are no bridges or ferry

connections, with the exception of small

islands located in a lake or river within

or adjacent to the main body of the CDP.

b. The boundaries of a CDP always are

census block boundaries. Features

chosen to form CDP boundaries must be

the nearest acceptable features bounding

the core area of the CDP (as defined in

Section A.1. above). CDP boundaries

should follow visible, perennial natural

and cultural features such as roads,

rivers, canals, railroads, above-ground

high-tension power lines, and so forth.

In addition to these features, the

following also are acceptable as CDP

boundaries:

• All incorporated place boundaries.

• All minor civil division (MCD)

boundaries (generally towns and

townships) in Connecticut, Indiana,

Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire,

New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania,

Rhode Island, and Vermont.

• Some MCD boundaries in Illinois

(townships only, not election precincts),

Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota,

Missouri (governmental townships

only), Nebraska (townships only, not

election precincts), North Dakota, Ohio,

South Dakota, and Wisconsin.

• Barrio, barrio-pueblo, and subbarrio

boundaries in Puerto Rico, census

subdistrict boundaries in the Virgin

Islands, municipal district boundaries

in the Northern Mariana Islands, and

election district boundaries in Guam.

• AIR and trust land boundaries.

• ANVSA and Alaska Native Regional

Corporation boundaries (at the

discretion of the Census Bureau insofar

as such boundaries are unambiguous for

allocating living quarters as part of

census activities).

When features listed above are not

available for selection, the Census

Bureau, at its discretion, may approve

other nonstandard visible features, such

as ridge lines, pipelines, intermittent

streams, fence lines, and so forth.

Additionally, the Census Bureau may

accept, on a case-by-case basis, the

boundaries of selected nonstandard and

potentially nonvisible features, such as

the boundaries of National Parks and

Forests, military reservations,

cemeteries, or other special land-use

properties and the straight-line
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extensions of visible features or other

lines of sight.

5. Population Size

There are no minimum or maximum

population thresholds for recognition as

a CDP for Census 2000.

6. Census Bureau Review and

Qualification of CDPs

The Census Bureau may modify or, if

necessary, reject any proposed CDP that

does not comply with the general

characteristics as outlined in Section

A.1. above or with any other criteria as

contained in this notice. The Census

Bureau also may define CDPs in

instances where clear evidence of a

place exists, but for which local officials

did not submit boundaries. The Census

Bureau does not take into account nor

attempt to anticipate any nonstatistical

uses that may be made of CDPs, nor will

the Census Bureau modify the definition

of CDPs to meet the requirements of any

nonstatistical program.

B. Changes in the Criteria for Census

2000

1. The Census Bureau has eliminated

population size as a criterion for CDP

qualification. For Census 2000, the

Census Bureau will recognize any

unincorporated community as a CDP,

regardless of population size, provided

it meets other criteria as outlined in this

notice. This represents a significant

change in the CDP criteria. Data users

should consider the implications that

this change has on the reliability of

sample data reported for CDPs,

especially those with small populations.

2. The Census Bureau will simplify its

data presentations by eliminating any

CDPs that are geographically

coextensive with an ANVSA having the

same name. This will eliminate

duplicate place names and population

totals that refer to the same geographic

area. In 1990, 64 out of 217 ANVSAs

were coextensive with a CDP. These

ANVSAs can still maintain their status

for Census 2000, but not also as CDPs.

The Census Bureau will continue to

recognize as separate CDPs those

communities that overlap the

boundaries of ANVSAs, provided that

the two entities are distinguishable by

name.

C. Reliability and Confidentiality of

Sample Data for CDPs

Statistical Areas Program participants

responsible for delineating CDP

boundaries, as well as users of Census

2000 data, should be aware that data

reported for CDPs with small population

and housing unit totals are subject to

disclosure avoidance techniques

designed to maintain confidentiality of

individual responses. In the past,

minimum population thresholds for

most CDPs were high enough to provide

reasonably reliable data for the CDP.

With the elimination of population

thresholds as a criterion for recognition,

program participants and data users

must recognize that the population and

housing characteristics reported for

small CDPs may be affected to a greater

extent by disclosure avoidance

techniques and increased variability

compared to larger CDPs.

The potential pitfalls of very small

(<1000 people) CDPs include:

1. Title 13, United States Code,

requires the Census Bureau to ensure

the confidentiality of all individual

responses. The Census Bureau will

apply a confidentiality edit to meet this

legal mandate. A small amount of

uncertainty is added to the estimates of

demographic characteristics as a result.

Small populations require more

protection, so there will likely be more

uncertainty added to the census data.

(The edit maintains the basic

demographic structure of the data.)

2. Sample data are subject to

variability within geographic areas of

any population size, but greater

variability occurs with smaller

populations. This is because the number

of sample cases is smaller.

3. If a small CDP is formed and the

characteristics of the housing or

demographics are homogeneous, the

estimates may be fairly reliable. To the

extent that characteristics vary from

house to house or person to person, the

data reliability is diminished.

D. Relationship Between CDPs and the

Urban/Rural Classification

For previous censuses, the Census

Bureau classified as urban any CDP

included within a UA as well as any

CDP that contained 2,500 or more

residents and was located outside of a

UA. As a result, some CDPs (as well as

some incorporated places) that had very

low population densities were classified

as urban simply because their

boundaries encompassed at least 2,500

people. The Census Bureau’s urban/

rural classification contains criteria for

defining ‘‘extended cities’’—

incorporated places that are divided

into sparsely settled (defined as fewer

than 100 people per square mile) rural

portions and more densely settled urban

portions. No such provisions, however,

existed for CDPs that contained

extensive areas of sparse settlement.

The Census Bureau currently is

reviewing its urban/rural classification

for Census 2000. The definitions and

criteria used for the 1990 census are

subject to change, although at this time

no decisions have been reached

regarding urban/rural definitions and

criteria for Census 2000. Statistical

Areas Program participants defining

CDPs should be aware, however, of the

possibility that the Census Bureau may

adopt urban/rural criteria under which

all incorporated places and CDPs could

be divided between densely settled

(urban) portions and sparsely settled

(rural) portions. There is no guarantee at

this time that all land area included in

a CDP for Census 2000 will be classified

as urban (or rural) by the Census

Bureau.

E. Data Access and Dissemination

System

The Census Bureau is developing the

Data Access and Dissemination System

(DADS) as a part of its efforts to

facilitate access to and dissemination of

official demographic and economic

information. This interactive electronic

system will be designed to allow timely

access to data generated by the various

areas of the Census Bureau. Users of the

DADS will be able to view or download

predefined data products or to extract

and tabulate data from existing

databases. The DADS also will provide

the opportunity for data users to view

and map features contained within the

Census Bureau’s TIGER database.

The DADS will enable users to select

unique user-defined geographic areas

from an on-screen map image by

drawing polygons or circles or selecting

predefined census areas such as census

blocks, block groups, or census tracts.

Users will be able to define as well as

tabulate and download data for a variety

of geographic areas, provided the

selections conform to Title 13

requirements protecting the

confidentiality of individual responses

(see Section C. above). User-defined

selections may consist of (but are not

limited to) geographic areas, such as

neighborhoods, housing subdivisions,

soil conservation districts, special

taxation districts, central business

districts, and so forth, that are not part

of the Census Bureau’s standard

geographic hierarchy.

The DADS will offer flexibility in

defining these geographic areas

interactively by allowing data users to

choose and modify boundaries for

unincorporated places as desired, rather

than having to conform to a predefined

census geographic area. The Census

Bureau recommends the use of this

user-defined functionality within DADS

to create geographic entities, such as

neighborhoods, or to obtain census data

for housing subdivisions. Many planned

communities have component parts
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known locally by name for which data

users need census data. The Census

Bureau has developed the DADS to

fulfill this need, allowing the CDP

program to continue to recognize the

larger unincorporated community.

Definitions of Key Terms

Alaska Native village statistical area

(ANVSA)—The densely settled extent of

an Alaska Native village (ANV). The

ANV is a type of local governmental

unit that constitutes an association,

band, clan, community, tribe, or village

recognized pursuant to the Alaska

Native Claims Settlement Act of 1972.

American Indian reservation (AIR)—

An American Indian entity with

boundaries established by treaty,

statute, and/or executive or court order

and over which American Indians have

governmental jurisdiction. Designations

such as colonies, communities, pueblos,

rancherias, reservations, and reserves

apply to AIRs.

Census block—A small area bounded

by visible features such as streets, roads,

streams, and railroad tracks and by

nonvisible boundaries such as city,

town, township, and county limits,

property lines, and short, imaginary

extensions of streets and roads.

Coextensive—Descriptive of two or

more geographic entities that cover

exactly the same area, with all

boundaries conjoint.

Housing unit—A housing unit is a

house, an apartment, a mobile home or

trailer, a group of rooms, or a single

room occupied as a separate living

quarter or, if vacant, intended for

occupancy as a separate living quarter.

Separate living quarters are those in

which the occupants live separately

from any other individuals in the

building and which have direct access

from outside the building or through a

common hall. For vacant units, the

criteria of separateness and direct access

are applied to the intended occupants

whenever possible. If that information

cannot be obtained, the criteria are

applied to the previous occupants.

Incorporated place—A type of

governmental unit, incorporated under

state law as a city, town (except in New

England, New York, and Wisconsin),

borough (except in Alaska and New

York), or village, having legally

prescribed limits, powers, and

functions.

Island area—An entity, other than a

state or the District of Columbia, under

the jurisdiction of the United States. For

Census 2000, this will include

American Samoa, Guam, the Northern

Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, the Virgin

Islands of the United States, and several

small islands in the Caribbean Sea and

the Pacific Ocean. The Census Bureau

treats each Island Area as the statistical

equivalent of a state.

Minor civil division (MCD)—The

primary governmental or administrative

division of a county in 28 states, Puerto

Rico and the Island Areas having legal

boundaries, names, and descriptions.

The several types of MCDs are identified

by a variety of terms, such as town,

township, and district, and include both

functioning and nonfunctioning

governmental units. In some states,

some or all of the incorporated places

also constitute MCDs.

Nonvisible feature—A map feature

that is not visible, such as a city or

county boundary, a property line

running through space, a short

imaginary extension of a street or road,

or a point-to-point line.

Statistical geographic entity—Any

specially defined geographic entity or

combination of entities, such as a block

group, CDP, or census tract, for which

the Census Bureau tabulates data.

Statistical entity boundaries are not

legally defined and the entities have no

governmental standing.

Tribal jurisdiction statistical area

(TJSA)—A statistical entity delineated

for the decennial census by American

Indian tribal officials in Oklahoma. A

TJSA encompasses the area that

includes the American Indian

population over which a tribe has

jurisdiction.

Urbanized area (UA)—An area

consisting of a central place(s) and

adjacent urban fringe that together have

a minimum residential population of at

least 50,000 people and generally an

overall population density of at least

1,000 persons per square mile. The

Census Bureau uses published criteria

to determine the qualification and

boundaries of UAs at the time of each

decennial census or from the results of

a special census during the intercensal

period.

Visible feature—A map feature that

can be seen on the ground, such as a

street or road, railroad track, power line,

stream, shoreline, fence, ridge, or cliff.

Dated: August 1, 1997.

Martha Farnsworth Riche,

Director, Bureau of the Census.

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BILLING CODE 3510–07–P

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Docket 65–97]

Foreign-Trade Zone 29—Louisville,

Kentucky; Application for Expansion

An application has been submitted to

the Foreign-Trade Zones (FTZ) Board

(the Board) by the Louisville and

Jefferson County Riverport Authority,

grantee of Foreign-Trade Zone 29,

requesting authority to expand FTZ 29,

Louisville, Kentucky, within the

Louisville Customs port of entry. The

application was submitted pursuant to

the provisions of the Foreign-Trade

Zones Act, as amended (19 U.S.C. 81a–

81u), and the regulations of the Board

(15 CFR Part 400). It was formally filed

on August 12, 1997.

FTZ 29 was approved on May 26,

1977 (Board Order 118, 42 FR 29323, 6/

8/77), and expanded on January 31,

1989 (Board Order 429, 54 FR 5992, 2/

7/89). The zone project currently

consists of two sites in the Louisville,

Kentucky area: Site 1 (1,319 acres)—

located within the Riverport Industrial

Complex; and Site 2 (675 acres)—

located at the junction of Gene Snyder

Freeway and La Grange Road in eastern

Jefferson County. In addition, an

application is currently pending with

the Board for three additional sites in

Louisville (Docket 71–96; 61 FR 52909,

10/9/96).

The applicant is now requesting

authority to add yet another site:

Proposed Site 6 (205 acres)—along

Johnstown Road. The site is adjacent to

the Riverport Industrial Complex (Site

1), and is also owned by the applicant.

No specific manufacturing authority is

being requested at this time. Such

requests would be made to the Board on

a case-by-case basis.

In accordance with the Board’s

regulations, a member of the FTZ Staff

has been designated examiner to

investigate the application and report to

the Board.

Public comment on the application is

invited from interested parties.

Submissions (original and 3 copies)

shall be addressed to the Board’s

Executive Secretary at the address

below. The closing period for their

receipt is October 21, 1997. Rebuttal

comments in response to material

submitted during the foregoing period

may be submitted during the subsequent

15-day period (to November 5, 1997).

A copy of the application and

accompanying exhibits will be available

during this time for public inspection at

each of the following locations: