LUCA Forms, Letters, User Guides, and other Items

D-1686(SGPW)
(Entity Name)
(Entity Code)
(Contact ID of the Governor - allow for 7 characters)
(Date)
(Recipient Name) (Position – allow for 45 characters)
(Department Name)
(Mailing Address)
(City) (State) (ZIP)
Dear (Name of Contact):
Recently, the U.S. Census Bureau invited the governor of your state to participate in the 2010
Decennial Census Local Update of Census Addresses (LUCA) Program. 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 accuracy and completeness of the Census Bureau’s address list is critical to the enumeration
process and the quality of the resulting census data. Your state’s participation in the LUCA
Program can help ensure that we achieve complete coverage in our enumeration of your state.
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 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 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

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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. We have also enclosed 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 software application that allows your state to update both the address list and map
information.
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 state’s 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 review the enclosed information and contact your governor about your state’s
participation. Your governor received the forms required to register to participate in the LUCA
Program. 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).
Sincerely,

Charles Louis Kincannon
Director
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