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Written comments and 

recommendations for the proposed 

information collection should be sent 

within 30 days of publication of this 

notice to Brian Harris-Kojetin, OMB 

Desk Officer either by fax (202–395– 

7245) or e-mail (bharrisk@omb.eop.gov). 

Dated: October 7, 2008. 

Gwellnar Banks, 

Management Analyst, Office of the Chief 

Information Officer. 

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

U.S. Census Bureau 

Proposed Information Collection; 

Comment Request; Geographic 

Partnership Programs 

AGENCY: U.S. Census Bureau. 

ACTION: Notice. 

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 December 15, 2008. 

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 Linda Franz, U.S. Census 

Bureau, Washington, DC 20233–7400, 

301–763–9061 (or via Internet at 

Linda.M.Franz@census.gov). 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Abstract 

The mission of the Geography 

Division within the Census Bureau is to 

plan, coordinate, and administer all 

geographic and cartographic activities 

needed to facilitate Census Bureau 

statistical programs throughout the 

United States and its territories. The 

Geography Division manages programs 

to continuously update features, 

boundaries, addresses, and geographic 

entities in the Master Address File/ 

Topologically Integrated Geographic 

Encoding and Referencing System 

(MAF/TIGER) database (MTdb). The 

Geography Division also conducts 

research into geographic concepts, 

methods, and standards needed to 

facilitate Census Bureau data collection 

and dissemination programs. 

Geographic Partnership Programs 

(GPPs) will allow designated 

participants, following Census Bureau 

guidelines, to review and suggest 

modifications to addresses and 

geographic boundaries to maintain the 

Census Bureau MTdb and to accurately 

report data from censuses and surveys. 

Because tribal, state, and local 

governments have current knowledge of 

and data about where growth and 

change are occurring in their 

jurisdictions, their input into the overall 

development of the address list for the 

censuses and surveys makes a vital 

contribution. Similarly, those 

governments are in the best position to 

work with geographic boundaries, and 

benefit themselves not only when their 

address list is complete, but also when 

their data tabulation areas are drawn to 

be relevant to user needs. 

II. Method of Collection 

This presubmission notice is for a 

generic clearance called the GPPs that 

will cover a number of activities needed 

to update the MTdb with associated 

address and geographic information. 

The information to be collected in these 

programs in cooperation with tribal, 

state, and local governments and other 

partners is essential to the mission of 

the Census Bureau and directly 

contributes to the successful outcome of 

censuses and surveys conducted by the 

Census Bureau. The generic clearance 

will allow the Census Bureau to focus 

its limited resources on actual 

operational planning, development of 

procedures, and implementation of 

programs to update and improve the 

geographic information maintained in 

the MTdb. 

The Census Bureau will develop 

guidelines and procedures for tribal, 

state, and local government submission 

of geographic and address data and will 

outline the mutual roles and 

responsibilities of each party. The list 

below is not exhaustive of all activities 

that may be performed under this 

generic clearance. The Census Bureau 

will follow the approved procedure 

when submitting any additional 

activities not specifically listed here. 

A. Local Update of Census Addresses 

(LUCA) 

The purpose of the 2010 Census 

LUCA program is to ensure that the 

Census Bureau develops, with the 

cooperation of tribal, state, and local 

governments in advance of the 2010 

Census, the most accurate address list 

possible. 

The Census Bureau’s deadline for 

submission of 2010 Census LUCA 

updates from tribal, state, and local 

governments was May 30, 2008. This 

schedule permitted the Census Bureau 

to review and process the submissions 

in time for a nationwide field check 

called the Address Canvassing 

Operation. 

B. LUCA Appeals 

The procedures for the LUCA Appeals 

process will be published in a Federal 

Register Notice. The Census Bureau will 

provide feedback materials to LUCA 

participants documenting the 

disposition of their LUCA submission as 

determined by the Address Canvassing 

Operation. Eligible LUCA participating 

governments may appeal the Census 

Bureau’s determinations regarding the 

address changes they initially 

submitted, as well as addresses for 

which they did not provide changes but 

that were deleted during Address 

Canvassing. All appeals must be filed 

within 30 calendar days of receipt of the 

feedback materials. To appeal, the 

eligible participants must provide 

specified contact information, specific 

addresses to be appealed, and specified 

supporting evidence. 

Participants submit the appeals to an 

Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB)-designated agency that is 

independent of the Department of 

Commerce. The Appeals Office issues a 

final written determination to both the 

eligible government and the Census 

Bureau. The Appeals Office will 

complete all reviews and write all 

determinations as soon as possible, but 

no later than the end of March 2010. 

The decisions of the Appeals Office are 

final. 

C. New Construction Program 

The New Construction Program is the 

final opportunity to add city-style 

housing unit addresses for newly-built 

structures closed to the elements by 

Census Day (April 1, 2010). The full 

details of the New Construction Program 

will be announced in a Federal Register 

Notice. The New Construction program 

runs from November 2009 to February 

2010. This program is offered only to 

local, tribal, and county governments in 

areas where the census questionnaires 


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will be delivered by mail 

(approximately 23,000 entities). 

Following the invitation and 

registration processes, the Census 

Bureau will send the participants the 

New Construction materials, which 

consist of instructions and maps 

(shapefiles or Portable Document 

Format (PDF) files). The participants 

must return their new construction 

addresses in the format specified by the 

Census Bureau. 

D. Redistricting Data Program 

The 2010 Census Redistricting Data 

Program is established in accordance 

with the provisions of Title 13 U.S.C. 

141(C) and provides the 50 States, the 

District of Columbia, and the 

Commonwealth of Puerto Rico the 

opportunity to specify the small 

geographic areas for which they wish to 

receive decennial census population 

totals for the purpose of 

reapportionment and redistricting. The 

law requires that the Census Bureau 

allow those having responsibility for 

apportionment or districting of each 

State be given the opportunity to specify 

geographic areas for which they wish to 

receive decennial census population 

counts. The law also requires that by 

April 1 of the year following the 

decennial census the Secretary of 

Commerce (Secretary) will furnish State 

officials or their designees with 

population counts for counties, cities, 

census blocks, and Congressional 

districts, legislative districts, and voting 

districts. 

The States will have the opportunity 

to verify the inclusion of their voting 

districts and suggested tabulation block 

boundary features during 2009 and early 

2010, to ensure the voting district 

boundaries that will be used by the 

Census Bureau are consistent with their 

submissions. 

E. Participant Statistical Areas Program 

(PSAP) and Tribal Statistical Areas 

Program (TSAP) 

The PSAP and TSAP are parallel 

geographic programs, developed to give 

local governments and regional 

planning agencies (PSAP) and tribal 

governments (TSAP) the opportunity to 

review, and update if necessary, 

statistical geographic areas for use in 

tabulating and publishing data from the 

2010 Census, the American Community 

Survey, and other surveys. The program 

will be available to tribal and local 

governments for all States, the District 

of Columbia, and Puerto Rico. The 

participants review and update census 

tracts, block groups, census designated 

places, census county divisions, and 

tribal areas and submit digital files (or, 

optionally, updated paper maps in the 

case of TSAP) back to the Census 

Bureau. The Census Bureau inserts the 

PSAP and TSAP areas into the MTdb. 

F. Traffic Analysis Zones (TAZ) 

Program 

The Census Bureau and the Federal 

Highway Administration (FHWA) 

identify and invite Metropolitan 

Planning Organizations (MPO) and/or 

State Departments of Transportation 

(DOTs) to be 2010 TAZ Program 

participants. TAZs are geographic areas 

that divide planning regions into 

relatively similar areas of land use, land 

activity, and commuter travel. TAZs are 

used to tabulate and present data as part 

of the Census Transportation Planning 

Products (CTPP), a special tabulation of 

American Community Survey data 

produced under contract with FHWA. 

The participants review and update the 

TAZs within their area of interest and 

submit the updated digital shapefiles 

back to the Census Bureau. The Census 

Bureau evaluates the submitted 

shapefiles and inserts the TAZs into the 

MTdb. 

G. School District Review Program 

(SDRP) 

The Census Bureau conducts the 

SDRP every two years under contract 

from the National Center for Education 

Statistics (NCES) of the U.S. Department 

of Education. The Census Bureau invites 

state education officials to be 

participants in the review and update of 

its national inventory of school district 

boundaries and district information. 

State education officials collaborate 

with local superintendents on the 

response. The participants review and 

provide updates and corrections to the 

elementary, secondary, and unified 

school district names and Federal Local 

Education Agency (LEA) identification 

numbers, school district boundaries, 

and the grade ranges for which a school 

district is financially responsible. The 

participants submit updated digital files 

back to the Census Bureau. 

The Census Bureau uses the updated 

school district information along with 

the most current Census population and 

income data, current population 

estimates, and tabulations of 

administrative records data, to form the 

Census Bureau’s estimates of the 

number of children aged 5 through 17 

in low-income families for each school 

district. These estimates of the number 

of children in low-income families 

residing within each school district are 

the basis of the funding allocation for 

each school district under Title I of the 

Elementary and Secondary Education 

Act as amended by the No Child Left 

Behind Act of 2001, Public Law (Pub. 

L.) 107–110. 

III. Data 

OMB Control Number: 0607–0795. 

Form Number: None. 

Type of Review: Regular submission. 

Affected Public: State, local, and tribal 

governments. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

19,883. 

Estimated Time per Response: 309 

hours. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden 

Hours: 3,915,478. 

Estimated Total Annual Cost: $0. 

Respondent’s Obligation: Voluntary. 

Legal Authority: Title 13 U.S.C. 

Sections 141 and 193. 

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. 

Comments submitted in response to 

this notice will be summarized and/or 

included in the request for OMB 

approval of this information collection; 

they also will become a matter of public 

record. 

Dated: October 8, 2008. 

Gwellnar Banks, 

Management Analyst, Office of the Chief 

Information Officer. 

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

Foreign-Trade Zones Board 

[Docket 55–2008] 

Foreign-Trade Zone 26—Atlanta, GA, 

Area; Application for Reorganization/ 

Expansion 

An application has been submitted to 

the Foreign-Trade Zones Board (the 

Board) by the Georgia Foreign-Trade 

Zone, Inc., grantee of FTZ 26, requesting 

authority to reorganize and expand the 

zone in the Atlanta, Georgia, area. The 

application was submitted pursuant to 

the provisions of the Foreign-Trade 


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