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. 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.
The census is based on addresses compiled from many sources. We are requesting your help to ensure that
the Census Bureau’s address list is as accurate as possible for your jurisdiction. The accuracy and
completeness of the address list is critical to the enumeration process and the quality of the resulting census
data. By participating in the LUCA Program, you can help ensure that we achieve complete coverage in our
enumeration of your jurisdiction.
Our records indicate that a portion of the area covered by your jurisdiction is within the boundary of a
federally-recognized American Indian reservation and/or off-reservation trust land. The Census Bureau will
not provide for your review the addresses on its list for that portion of your jurisdiction. The Census Bureau
provides addresses contained within the boundaries of federally-recognized American Indian reservations
and off-reservation trust lands only to the relevant tribal government, in keeping with the unique
government-to-government relationship between the federal government and federally-recognized tribes.
The Census Bureau nonetheless encourages tribal governments to coordinate their LUCA address list review
with, or to delegate (if they do not plan to participate) review authority to, neighboring local governments or
the state government. In the event that the tribal government chooses not to coordinate its LUCA address list
review for the portion of the area covered by your jurisdiction, you can still help to improve the Census
Bureau’s address list for your entire jurisdiction by submitting potentially missing addresses as part of the
LUCA Program.
The LUCA Program provides options for you to:
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Review/correct the Census Bureau’s address list for the non-reservation/trust land portion of your
jurisdiction. If there are city-style addresses (e.g. 101 Main St.) that you think are likely missing from
the Census Bureau’s address list for the reservation/trust land portion of your jurisdiction (e.g. because
they represent new construction) you can submit them as added addresses along with any changes for
the non-reservation/trust land area; or

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Submit your local address list of city-style addresses for all or part of your jurisdiction, including the part
that overlaps the tribal boundary, to the Census Bureau in the Census Bureau specified computerreadable format; and

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

You will not receive feedback on our disposition of any added addresses for the reservation/trust land portion
of your jurisdiction, or be able to appeal our determinations on these, but we will include these addresses on
our list for questionnaire delivery if we are able to validate them in our field check.
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 Self-Assessment
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 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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