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 with 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 the area covered by your jurisdiction is entirely within the boundary of a
federally-recognized American Indian reservation and/or off-reservation trust land. For the LUCA
Program, the Census Bureau will not provide any addresses contained within the boundary of any
federally-recognized American Indian reservation and/or off-reservation trust land on the Census
Bureau’s address list to any government other than the relevant tribal government. This policy is in
keeping with the Census Bureau’s recognition of the unique government-to-government relationship
between the federal government and federally-recognized tribes. The Census Bureau nonetheless
encourages tribal governments to coordinate their 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 review, you can still participate in the
LUCA Program if you have a list of city-style addresses (e.g. 101 Main St.) for your jurisdiction that
you would like to submit.
Although you cannot review the individual addresses for your jurisdiction, you can still participate in
the LUCA Program through Option 3. Option 3 offers you an opportunity to submit your local
computer-readable address file (city-style addresses only) to the Census Bureau. For reference, Option
3 participants receive the Census Bureau’s computer-readable address count list, which contains
address counts for each of the census blocks within your jurisdiction. If you participate in the LUCA
Program, you will be able to:

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Submit your local address list containing only city-style addresses to the Census Bureau in the
Census Bureau specified computer-readable format; and

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Review and update your 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 Product Preference Form, 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 map information.
If your government chooses to participate, please do the following:
• Complete and sign the Registration Form.
• Complete the Product Preference Form.
• Designate a LUCA Program liaison and reviewers.
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 submit your address
list. 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
address list, 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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