Federal Register / Vol. 73, No. 51 / Friday, March 14, 2008 / Notices 13829 

1The ACS is conducted in the United States and 

in Puerto Rico. In Puerto Rico, the survey is called 

the Puerto Rico Community Survey. For ease of 

discussion, throughout this document the term ACS 

is used to represent both the survey that is 

conducted in the United States and in Puerto Rico. 

Deletion 

Regulatory Flexibility Act Certification 

I certify that the following action will not 

have a significant impact on a substantial 

number of small entities. The major factors 

considered for this certification were: 

1. If approved, the action should not result 

in additional reporting, recordkeeping or 

other compliance requirements for small 

entities. 

2. If approved, the action may result in 

authorizing small entities to furnish the 

service to the Government. 

3. There are no known regulatory 

alternatives which would accomplish the 

objectives of the Javits-Wagner-O’Day Act (41 

U.S.C. 46–48c) in connection with the service 

proposed for deletion from the Procurement 

List. 

Comments on this certification are invited. 

Commenters should identify the statement(s) 

underlying the certification on which they 

are providing additional information. 

End of Certification 

The following service is proposed for 

deletion from the Procurement List: 

Services 

Service Type/Location: Janitorial/Custodial, 

U.S. Federal Building, Courthouse and 

Post Office, 301 West Main Street, 

Benton, IL. 

NPA: Franklin-Williamson Human Services, 

Inc., West Frankfort, IL, 

Contracting Activity: General Services 

Administration, 

Kimberly M. Zeich, 

Director, Program Operations. 

[FR Doc. E8–5155 Filed 3–13–08; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6353–01–P 

BROADCASTING BOARD OF 

GOVERNORS 

Sunshine Act Meeting; (Canceled) 

DATE AND TIME: Wednesday, March 12, 

2008 3 p.m.–3:45 p.m. 

PLACE: Cohen Building, Room 3321, 

330 Independence Ave., SW., 

Washington, DC 20237. 

CLOSED MEETING: The members of the 

Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) 

will meet in closed session to review 

and discuss a number of issues relating 

to U.S. Government-funded nonmilitary international broadcasting. 

They will address internal procedural, 

budgetary, and personnel issues, as well 

as sensitive foreign policy issues 

relating to potential options in the U.S. 

international broadcasting field. This 

meeting is closed because if open it 

likely would either disclose matters that 

would be properly classified to be kept 

secret in the interest of foreign policy 

under the appropriate executive order (5 

U.S.C. 552b.(c)(1)) or would disclose 

information the premature disclosure of 

which would be likely to significantly 

frustrate implementation of a proposed 

agency action. (5 U.S.C. 552b.(c)(9)(B)) 

In addition, part of the discussion will 

relate solely to the internal personnel 

and organizational issues of the BBG or 

the International Broadcasting Bureau. 

(5 U.S.C. 552b.(c)(2) and (6)). 

CONTACT PERSON FOR MORE INFORMATION: 

Persons interested in obtaining more 

information should contact Timi 

Nickerson Kenealy at (202) 203–4545. 

Dated: March 11, 2008. 

Timi Nickerson Kenealy, 

Acting Legal Counsel. 

[FR Doc. 08–1031 Filed 3–11–08; 4:36 pm] 

BILLING CODE 8610–01–M 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

Bureau of the Census 

[Docket Number 070126022–8027–02] 

Census Block Group Program for the 

2010 Decennial Census—Final Criteria 

AGENCY: Bureau of the Census, 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice of final criteria and 

program implementation. 

SUMMARY: Block groups are statistical 

geographic divisions of a census tract, 

defined for the tabulation and 

presentation of decennial census data. 

Block groups also will be used to 

tabulate and present period estimates 

from the American Community Survey 

(ACS) 1 after 2010. Block groups provide 

the geographic framework within which 

the Bureau of the Census (Census 

Bureau) defines census blocks. Each 

block group comprises a reasonably 

compact and contiguous cluster of 

census blocks; up to nine block groups 

can be contained within a single census 

tract. 

This Notice announces the Census 

Bureau’s final criteria for the Census 

Block Group Program for the 2010 

Decennial Census. In addition, this 

Notice contains a summary of comments 

received to proposed criteria published 

in the April 6, 2007 Federal Register (72 

FR 17337), as well as the Census 

Bureau’s response to these comments. In 

response to comments received, the 

Census Bureau has modified its 

proposed criteria for the Census Block 

Group Program for the 2010 Decennial 

Census. Most provisions of the block 

group criteria for the 2010 Census 

remain unchanged from those used in 

conjunction with the 2000 Decennial 

Census, except as follows. First, the 

same population and housing unit 

thresholds, a minimum of 600 people or 

240 housing units and a maximum of 

3,000 people or 1,200 housing units, 

will apply to all types of populated 

block groups, including block groups 

delineated within American Indian 

reservations and off-reservation trust 

lands, the Island Areas, and 

encompassing group quarters, military 

installations, and institutions. Second, 

housing unit counts may be used 

instead of population counts in the 

delineation of block groups. Third, the 

delineation of special land use tracts 

will be permitted, and encouraged, for 

areas with special land uses (e.g., 

airports, military reservations, public 

forests, public parks, and special places/ 

group quarters) with an official name. 

Finally, a geographic framework of 

tribal block groups, separate from the 

standard block groups defined within 

counties, will be defined within 

federally recognized American Indian 

reservations and/or off-reservation trust 

lands, subject to other population, 

housing, and boundary criteria 

contained in this document. 

Upon publication of the final criteria 

contained in this Notice, the Census 

Bureau will offer governments, 

organizations, and interested data users 

an opportunity to review and, if 

necessary, suggest updates to the 

boundaries and attributes of the block 

groups in their geographic area under 

the Participant Statistical Areas Program 

(PSAP). In addition to block groups, the 

PSAP also encompasses the review and 

update of census tracts, census 

designated places, and census county 

divisions (in selected states). 

DATES: This notice’s final criteria will be 

effective on March 14, 2008. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: The 

Geographic Standards and Criteria 

Branch, Geography Division, U.S. 

Census Bureau, via e-mail at 

geo.psap.list@census.gov or telephone at 

(301) 763–3056. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. History of Block Groups 

The Census Bureau first delineated 

block groups as statistical geographic 

divisions of census tracts for the 1970 

Census, comprising contiguous 

combinations of census blocks for data 

presentation purposes. At that time, 

census block groups only existed in 

urbanized areas in which census blocks 

were defined. Block groups were 

defined without regard to political and 


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