LUCA Forms, Letters, User Guides, and other Items

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Dear (Name of HEO):
The U.S. Census Bureau invites your government to participate in the 2010 Decennial Census
Local Update of Census Addresses (LUCA) Program. Every ten years, the Census Bureau
conducts a census of the population and housing of the United States. Census data drive
redistricting decisions and directly affect the distribution of more than $200 billion in federal
funds each year. We are requesting your help to ensure that the Census Bureau’s address list is
as accurate as possible for your jurisdiction. Because the address list is the basis for
enumeration, using your local knowledge to improve it is the most important step you can take
toward every person in your community being counted.
The LUCA Program, authorized by the Census Address List Improvement Act of 1994 (Public
Law 103-430), provides tribal, state, and local governments the opportunity to review and update
the Census Bureau’s address list. If you choose to participate in the LUCA Program, you will be
able to:
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Review and update the Census Bureau’s address list, or submit your local address list to the
Census Bureau in the Census Bureau specified computer-readable format; and

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Review and update the legal boundaries and features on the Census Bureau maps.

The enclosed flyer, Will Your Community Be Ready for the 2010 Decennial Census Local
Update of Census Addresses (LUCA) Program?, provides an overview of the LUCA Program.
This flyer answers questions that may assist your government in deciding whether to participate
in this program.
Also enclosed are the Registration Form, the Participation Option/Product Preference Form, the
Confidentiality and Security Guidelines, the Confidentiality Agreement Form, the SelfAssessment Checklist, and two computer-based training (CBT) CD-ROMs. One CBT CD-ROM
provides background and instructions on participating in the LUCA Program. The second CBT
CD-ROM contains instructional information on the Census Bureau’s MAF/TIGER Partnership
Software (available free of charge to LUCA Program participants), a geographic information

system software application that allows your government to update both the address list materials
and map information.
If your government chooses to participate, please do the following:
• Choose a LUCA Program participation option and complete the Participation Option/Product
Preference Form.
• Complete and sign the Registration Form.
• Designate a LUCA Program liaison and reviewers. (The liaison and all reviewers must sign the
Confidentiality Agreement for Option 1 and Option 2).
• Ensure that the LUCA Program liaison completes and signs the Self-Assessment Checklist
(required for participation in Option 1 and Option 2).
We will supply your LUCA materials as soon as possible after we receive your completed
registration forms. You have 120 days from the date you receive your LUCA materials to
complete your review and submit your address list changes. We will accept registrations up until
December 31, 2007, but can guarantee the full 120-day review period only for governments
registering by November 19, 2007. If you register before October 31, 2007, you have the
opportunity to provide legal boundary updates along with your LUCA updates, and the Census
Bureau will not send you the 2008 Boundary and Annexation survey package in January 2008.
Please return all forms to the Census Bureau as soon as possible in the enclosed postage-paid
envelope. If you have any questions regarding the LUCA Program, please contact your Census
Bureau Regional Office by telephone at 1-866-511-LUCA (5822) or via e-mail at [RO e-mail
address].
We look forward to working with you.
Sincerely,

Charles Louis Kincannon
Director
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