[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 101 (Wednesday, May 26, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Pages 29508-29513]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-12626]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Census Bureau


The 2010 Census Count Question Resolution Program

AGENCY: U.S. Census Bureau, Commerce.

ACTION: Proposed collection; comment request.

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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 <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#711539081f141a31151e125f161e07"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="1e7a5667707b755e7a717d30797168">[email protected]</span></a>).

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: <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#197d747d467a686b597a7c776a6c6a377e766f"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="1a7e777e45796b685a797f74696f69347d756c">[email protected]</span></a>.

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 self-response 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 associated population within the correct

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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:
    <bullet> 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''.)
    <bullet> 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

    <bullet> 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.
    <bullet> 2010 Census County Block Maps--The Census Bureau produces 
maps as a reference to the Summary File 1 data.
    <bullet> 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

    <bullet> City-Style Address Lists--A city-style 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).
    <bullet> Non-City Style Address Lists--Non-city 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.
    <bullet> 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. Non-institutional 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 <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#f7939a93d9948685b7949299848284d9909881"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="b7d3dad399d4c6c5f7d4d2d9c4c2c499d0d8c1">[email protected]</span></a>.
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]
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