D-1663lgltp Advance Notice Tribal Governments

D-1663LG(LTP)
(5-2007)

DC

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Economics and Statistics Administration

U.S. Census Bureau
Washington, DC 20233-0001
OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR

In February 2007, your government received an informational mailing from the U.S. Census
Bureau announcing the upcoming 2010 Decennial Census Local Update of Census Addresses
(LUCA) program, which allows participating governments to review and improve the Census
Bureau’s address list.
This letter is to inform you that because 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:
• 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 Street) 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
• Submit your local address list of city-style addresses for either your entire jurisdiction, or a
selected portion, to the Census Bureau in the Census Bureau specified format; and
• Review and update your legal boundaries and features on the Census Bureau maps.

USCENSUSBUREAU
Helping You Make Informed Decisions

www.census.gov

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.
If you have any questions, please contact your Census Bureau Regional Office by telephone
at 1–866–511–LUCA (5822) or via e-mail at
Sincerely,

Charles Louis Kincannon
Director
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D-1663LG(LTP) (5-2007)