LUCA Forms, Letters, User Guides, and other Items

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(Entity Name)
(Entity Code)
(Contact ID of the Governor - allow for 7 characters)
(Date)
The Honorable (Full Name of Governor)
(Department Name)
(Mailing Address)
(City) (State) (ZIP)
Dear Governor (Full Name of Governor):
The U.S. Census Bureau invites your state 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 state, local, and tribal governments the opportunity to
review and update the Census Bureau’s address list. The 2010 Census marks the first time that the Census Bureau
is inviting state-level governments to participate in the LUCA Program.
We are requesting your help to ensure that the Census Bureau’s address list is as accurate as possible for your
state. Because the address list is the basis for enumeration, using your knowledge to improve it is the most
important step you can take toward everyone in your state being counted.
Our records indicate that a portion of the area covered by your state is within the boundary of one or more
federally-recognized American Indian reservations and/or off-reservation trust lands. The Census Bureau will
not provide for your review the addresses on its list for that portion of your state. The Census Bureau provides
addresses contained within the boundaries of federally-recognized American Indian reservations and offreservation trust lands only to the relevant tribal government, in keeping with the unique government-togovernment 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 address list review for the portion of the area
covered by your state, you can still help to improve the address list for your entire state by submitting
potentially missing addresses as part of the LUCA program.
The LUCA Program provides options for you to:
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Review and update the Census Bureau’s address list products for the non-reservation/trust land portion of
your state; or your may elect to focus your review on selected areas within your state; or

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Submit your address list of city-style addresses for your entire state, or a selected portion, to the Census Bureau
in the Census Bureau specified computer-readable format; and

•

Review and update the geographic features in the Census Bureau’s geographic database.

You will not receive feedback on our disposition of any added addresses for the reservation/trust land portion of
your state, 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. The flyer answers questions that
may assist your state 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 computerbased 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 software application that allows your state to update both the Census Bureau’s address list materials
and map information.
If your state 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).
If your state has an active State Data Center, Federal/State Cooperative Program for Population Estimates, and/or
Geographic Information System (GIS) coordinator, these established Census Bureau partners may be good
candidates for involvement in your LUCA effort.
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.
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
(RO Phone Number) 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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