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number, State, payment options and 

special accommodations from 

respondents. FSA will use the 

information to get payment, confirm and 

make hotel and other necessary 

arrangements for the respondents. 

Description of Respondents: 

Individuals or households; Farms: 

Business or other for-profit; Federal 

government, Not-for-profit institutions; 

State, Local or Tribal Government. 

Number of Respondents: 900. 

Frequency of Responses: Reporting: 

On occasion. 

Total Burden Hours: 225. 

Farm Service Agency 

Title: Procurement of Commodities for 

Foreign Donation. 

OMB Control Number: 0560–0258. 

Summary of Collection: 7 CFR part 

1496, Procurement of Processed 

Agricultural Commodities for Donation 

under Title II, Public Law 480 is the 

authorizing authority. The Kansas City 

Commodity Office (KCCO), within the 

Farm Service Agency (FSA), U.S. 

Department of Agriculture, procures 

agricultural commodities on behalf of 

the Commodity Credit Corporation 

(CCC) for donation overseas under 

various food aid authorities. The 

information collection is needed in the 

evaluation of freight bids in connection 

with the procurement of commodities 

for donation overseas. This information 

is submitted by ocean carriers, or their 

agents, and collected by the KCCO. 

Need and Use of the Information: The 

United States donates agricultural 

commodities overseas to meet famine or 

other relief requirements, to combat 

malnutrition, and sells or donates 

commodities to promote economic 

development. To accommodate these 

donations, the CCC issues invitation to 

purchase agricultural commodities and 

services, such as transportation, for use 

in international programs. Vendors bid 

for ocean freight by making offers using 

the Freight Bid Entry System to place 

bids electronically. 

Description of Respondents: Business 

or other for-profit. 

Number of Respondents: 15. 

Frequency of Responses: Reporting: 

Weekly. 

Total Burden Hours: 24. 

Ruth Brown, 

Departmental Information Collection 

Clearance Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2010–12601 Filed 5–25–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3410–05–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

Census Bureau 

The 2010 Census Count Question 

Resolution Program 

AGENCY: U.S. Census Bureau, 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Proposed collection; comment 

request. 

SUMMARY: The Department of 

Commerce, as part of its continuing 

effort to reduce paperwork and 

respondent burden, invites the general 

public and other Federal agencies to 

take this opportunity to comment on 

proposed and/or continuing information 

collections, as required by the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, 

Public Law 104–13 (44 U.S.C. 

3506(c)(2)(A)). 

DATES: To ensure consideration, written 

comments must be submitted on or 

before July 26, 2010. 

ADDRESSES: Direct all written comments 

to Diana Hynek, Departmental 

Paperwork Clearance Officer, 

Department of Commerce, Room 6625, 

14th and Constitution Avenue, NW., 

Washington, DC 20230 (or via the 

Internet at dHynek@doc.gov). 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Requests for additional information or 

copies of the information collection 

instrument(s) and instructions should 

be directed to Christa D. Jones, Assistant 

Division Chief, Count Question 

Resolution Office, Room 3H061, 

Decennial Management Division, U.S. 

Census Bureau, Washington, DC 20233. 

Telephone: 301–763–7310; FAX: 301– 

763–8327 or e-mail: 

dmd_cqr@census.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Abstract 

The Count Question Resolution (CQR) 

program will address corrections for 

three types of challenges for the 2010 

Decennial Census: (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. The Census 

Bureau will review challenges in the 

order they are received. 

The CQR program procedures include 

researching challenges and, as 

appropriate, making corrections and 

issuing revised official population and 

housing unit 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 sub-State 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 unit 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: 

—Specifically 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://factfinder.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 

population counts. In 2002, the Census 

Bureau initiated the Master Address 


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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 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 to provide 

an independent adjudication. The full 

LUCA operation included participant 

review of materials from November 

2007–March 2008; Census Bureau 

Address Canvassing field work from 

March–July 2009; LUCA Detailed 

Feedback to participants from October– 

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 

via the New Construction program, 

which occurred from November 2009– 

March 2010. 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 how to make boundary 

corrections. 

From September–October 2009, the 

Census Bureau also conducted the 

Group Quarters Validation and 

Reinterview operations to verify or 

correct address records identified as 

group quarters. 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 selfresponse from the spring 2010 Delivery 

Sequence File update from the U.S. 

Postal Service. The Mail Delivery for the 

Late Adds operation reduced the 

number of addresses included in the 

Nonresponse Follow-up (NRFU) Vacant 

Delete Check operation. 

Between April and August 2010, the 

Coverage Follow-up (CFU) operation 

will improve the 2010 Census by calling 

households that are 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 enumerates housing 

units that census workers inaccurately 

classified as vacant or nonexistent in an 

earlier census operation. It 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 will conduct 

the Field Verification operation. The 

Field Verification operation is 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 

enforces 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 (Pub. L. 94– 

171) are scheduled for release from 

February through March 2011. In May 

2011, the Census Bureau will release an 

advance tabulation of group quarters 

population and type to the public 

through a file transfer protocol site. This 

‘‘Advance Release of Group Quarters 

Data from Summary File 1’’ will include 

block-level Group Quarters (GQ) 

population 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 group 

quarters population counts. 

Collectively, these census data products 

will provide participants with 

appropriate tools for accessing the 

accuracy of their decennial census 

counts. 

State, local, and Tribal area 

government officials 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: 

(1) Boundary—The CQR program 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. 

(2) Geocoding—These challenges 

affect placement of living quarters and 

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governmental unit boundaries and 

census tabulation blocks. 

(3) 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 are 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 data 

concerning the characteristics of the 

population and housing inventory. The 

Census Bureau will modify the 

decennial file reflecting the corrected 

counts for 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 

governmental units may use new official 

Census counts for all programs requiring 

official 2010 Census data. The Census 

Bureau will send a letter with a 

certification of the population and 

housing for all jurisdictions affected by 

the results of a successful 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 

group quarters 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 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 Census Bureau staff 

review of population and housing unit 

count totals prior to the release of the 

data. In August 2010, the FSCPE 

representatives will review the 2010 

Census group quarters population 

counts. 

Findings from the Count Review 

program may result in cases for the CQR 

program if there is insufficient time to 

make corrections before the end of the 

Count Review operation. The Count 

Review program staff will create 

internal CQR challenges for all 

unresolved issues within the scope of 

the CQR program. The Census Bureau 

may make count corrections as result of 

this internal review and include them in 

the CQR process. In cases where the 

Census Bureau makes changes to the 

housing unit and/or population counts, 

new official counts will be issued to the 

affected jurisdictions, and the results 

will be included in the same file as CQR 

external cases. However, the Census 

Bureau will not make changes to the 

2010 Census data products due to a 

successful CQR challenge. 

II. 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 

group quarters population 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 group quarters population 

counts 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. (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 group quarters in that 

block on April 1, 2010. (See the section 

‘‘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, census Tribal 

tract, and census tabulation block 

boundary. 


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Challenge Criteria 

Housing Unit Count 

The Redistricting Data (Pub. L. 94– 

171) Summary File can be used to 

obtain census tabulation block housing 

unit counts. Summary File 1 can also 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 Population Count 

The ‘‘Advance Release of Group 

Quarters Data from Summary File 1’’ 

provides the group quarters population 

counts for 2010 census tabulation 

blocks. Summary File 1 itself may also 

be used to obtain census tabulation 

blocks and Group Quarters population 

counts. Challenges must include a 

complete address list for all group 

quarters 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. Supporting evidence that 

specifically reflects the validity of any 

address list source showing the 

population within a group quarters must 

be dated no later than April 1, 2010. 

Challenges to group quarters population 

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 include applicable housing 

unit identifiers in multi-unit buildings 

(such as apartment numbers). The 

Census Bureau requests the challenger 

use the address list template 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 

unit and location. 

• Group Quarters Address Lists— 

Group Quarters addresses can include 

city style or non-city style addresses. 

Provide the group quarters name, 

number and street address, city, State, 

ZIP Code, county, and telephone 

number for the contact at the group 

quarters as of April 1, 2010. The group 

quarters 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 

Group Quarters on April 1, 2010. In 

addition, provide the 2010 Census Tract 

and tabulation block number for the 

location of the group quarters 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 group quarters 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 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://factfinder.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 blocs 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 county equivalent—The 

primary legal subdivision of most 

States. 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, group quarters population, 

household type, housing occupancy, 

and housing tenure. 

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 group quarters are usually not 

related to each other. The two general 

types of group quarters are institutional 

and non-institutional. Institutional 

group quarters 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 


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people with disabilities. Noninstitutional group quarters include: 

College or university dormitories and 

residence halls, military barracks, group 

homes, shelters, convents, migratory 

farm worker camps, military ship, and 

maritime/merchant vessels. Group 

quarters may have housing for staff as 

their usual residence at the group 

quarters address. 

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. 

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 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. 

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, Room 3H061, 

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 Tribal, and 

local governmental unit representatives 

and the results of the Census Bureau’s 

research of the census records. 

3. Which Governmental Units Are 

Eligible To Submit a CQR Challenge? 

The Census Bureau will research and, 

if necessary, correct the counts for: 

1. Counties and statistically 

equivalent entities. 

2. Functioning minor civil divisions. 

3. Incorporated places, including 

consolidated cities. 

4. Census Designated Places in Hawaii 

and Puerto Rico only. 

5. Federally recognized American 

Indian reservations and off-reservation 

trust lands. 

6. American Indian Tribal 

subdivisions. 

7. State-recognized American Indian 

reservations (submitted by a State 

official). 

8. Alaska Native Regional 

Corporations. 

9. Alaska Native Village Statistical 

Areas. 

10. Tribal-designated statistical areas. 

11. Oklahoma Tribal statistical areas. 

12. State-designated Tribal statistical 

areas (submitted by a State official). 

13. Hawaiian home lands (submitted 

by a State official). 

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 (1) Apportionment, (2) Redistricting 

Data, or (3) 2010 Census Data Products? 

(1) 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. 

(2) The Census Bureau plans to begin 

delivery to States of the counts 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. 

(3) 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. 

III. Data 

OMB Number: Not available. 

Form Number: None. 

Type of Review: Regular. 

Affected Public: State, local, or Tribal 

area governmental units in the United 

States and Puerto Rico. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

Approximately 1,500 annually. 

Estimated Time per Response: 5.2 

hours (based on an average challenge of 

40 housing units). 

Estimated Total Annual Burden 

Hours: 7,800 hours. 

Estimated Total Annual Cost: 

$122,220.00. 

Respondent’s Obligation: Voluntary. 

Legal Authority: Title 13, U.S.C., 

Section 141. 


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IV. Request for Comments 

Comments are invited on: (a) Whether 

the proposed collection of information 

is necessary for the proper performance 

of the functions of the agency, including 

whether the information shall have 

practical utility; (b) The accuracy of the 

agency’s estimate of the burden 

(including hours and cost) of the 

proposed collection of information; (c) 

Ways to enhance the quality, utility, and 

clarity of the information to be 

collected; and (d) Ways to minimize the 

burden of the collection of information 

on respondents, including through the 

use of automated collection techniques 

or other forms of information 

technology. 

The Census Bureau will summarize 

and/or include comments submitted in 

response to this notice in the request for 

OMB approval of this information 

collection; the comments also will 

become a matter of public record. 

Dated: May 21, 2010. 

Glenna Mickelson, 

Management Analyst, Office of the Chief 

Information Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2010–12626 Filed 5–25–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–07–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

Bureau of the Census 

[Docket Number 100429203–0204–01] 

Developing a Supplemental Poverty 

Measure 

AGENCY: Bureau of the Census, 

Department of Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice and solicitation of 

comments. 

SUMMARY: The Bureau of the Census 

(Census Bureau) issues this notice to 

request comments on the approach to 

developing a Supplemental Poverty 

Measure (SPM) presented in a report 

entitled ‘‘Observations from the 

Interagency Technical Working Group 

on Developing a Supplemental Poverty 

Measure,’’ which was recently released 

by the Interagency Technical Working 

Group on Developing a Supplemental 

Poverty Measure (Working Group). This 

report was produced as part of an effort 

by the Working Group to suggest how 

the Census Bureau, in cooperation with 

the U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau 

of Labor Statistics (BLS), should 

develop a new Supplemental Poverty 

Measure. The report provides 

observations about how to make a series 

of initial choices in the development of 

the SPM. The eventual publication of 

the SPM will not replace the official 

poverty measure, nor will it have any 

impact on allocations determined by the 

poverty measurement. Rather, it is part 

of the Census Bureau’s ongoing effort to 

more accurately measure poverty levels 

in the United States. 

DATES: To ensure consideration, written 

comments must be submitted to the 

office listed in the ADDRESSES section of 

this notice on or before June 25, 2010. 

ADDRESSES: Send comments to David 

Johnson, Housing and Household 

Economic Statistics Division, Census 

Bureau, 4600 Silver Hill Road, Stop 

8500, Washington, DC 20233–8500 or to 

spm@census.gov. The Interagency 

Technical Working Group’s report may 

be found at: http://www.census.gov/

hhes/www/poverty/SPM_

TWGObservations.pdf. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

David Johnson, Housing and Household 

Economic Statistics Division, Census 

Bureau, telephone number 301–763– 

6443 (this is not a toll-free number), email to: spm@census.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Background 

Since the publication of the first 

official U.S. poverty estimates in 1964, 

there has been continuing debate about 

the best approach to measuring poverty 

in the United States. Recognizing that 

supplemental estimates of poverty can 

provide very useful information to the 

public as well as to the Federal 

Government, in 2009, the Office of 

Management and Budget’s (OMB) Chief 

Statistician formed an Interagency 

Technical Working Group on 

Developing a Supplemental Poverty 

Measure (Working Group). This group 

included representatives from BLS, the 

Census Bureau, the Economics and 

Statistics Administration, the Council of 

Economic Advisers, the U.S. 

Department of Health and Human 

Services, and OMB. The Working Group 

asked the Census Bureau, in cooperation 

with the Bureau of Labor Statistics, to 

develop a Supplemental Poverty 

Measure (SPM) to obtain an improved 

understanding of the economic wellbeing of American families and of how 

Federal policies affect those living in 

poverty, and offered its observations on 

how the Census Bureau should do so in 

the above-referenced report. 

The SPM ultimately produced by the 

Census Bureau would not replace the 

official poverty measure, and the SPM 

will not be the measure used to estimate 

eligibility for government programs. The 

official statistical poverty measure, as 

defined in OMB Statistical Policy 

Directive No. 14, will continue to be 

produced and updated every year. The 

SPM is instead designed as an 

experimental measure that defines 

income thresholds and resources in a 

manner different from the official 

poverty measure. The Census Bureau 

considers the SPM a work in progress, 

and both the Working Group and the 

Census Bureau expect that there will be 

improvements to the SPM over time. 

The first publication of the SPM will be 

accompanied by a detailed description 

of the methodology used to estimate the 

new supplemental measure, and the 

Census Bureau expects to update this 

description as changes are incorporated 

in the SPM. 

The new supplemental measure 

would be published initially in the fall 

of 2011 at the same time and level of 

detail as the 2010 income and poverty 

statistics that reflect the official poverty 

measure, and annually thereafter. 

Developing and estimating an SPM will 

take substantial advance work and 

planning, and the Working Group’s 

observations are meant to assist the 

Census Bureau and the BLS in such 

planning. 

II. Defining the Supplemental Poverty 

Measure 

In its report, the Working Group laid 

out a series of suggestions and 

recommendations that, taken together, 

provide a roadmap through which the 

Census Bureau, with the assistance of 

BLS, can use to produce the initial set 

of estimates of the number and 

percentage of people in poverty based 

on the SPM in 2011. It is likely that the 

procedures used to create this first set 

of estimates will closely resemble the 

Working Group’s recommendations. A 

much abbreviated summary of the 

group’s suggestions follows. The Census 

Bureau invites the public to read and 

offer comments on the approach 

described in the Working Group’s full 

report, which can be found at http:// 

www.census.gov/hhes/www/poverty/ 

SPM_TWGObservations.pdf. The Census 

Bureau is especially interested in 

receiving comments on the methodology 

the Working Group employed in making 

its recommendations. 

The poverty threshold is the annual 

expenditure amount below which a 

family is considered poor. The Working 

Group recommended that the poverty 

threshold for the SPM should be 

established on the basis of expenditures 

for commodities that all families must 

purchase: Food, shelter, clothing, and 

utilities (collectively, FSCU). This 

threshold should be derived from 

expenditure data from BLS’ U.S. 

Consumer Expenditure Survey. The 

Working Group recommended that the 

reference sample for this threshold be 


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