D-1663sgltpw Advance Notice

D-1663SG(LTPW)
(6-2007)

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, you 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 address
list.
This letter is to inform you that because 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:
• Review/correct the Census Bureau’s address list for the non-reservation/trust land portion of
your state. If there are city-style addresses (e.g., 101 Main Street) that you think are likely
missing from the census address list for the reservation/trust land portion of your state (e.g.,
because they represent new construction), you can submit them as added addresses along
with the changes for the non-reservation/trust land area; or
• 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 format; and
• Review and update the geographic features in the Census Bureau’s geographic database.

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 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.
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-1663SG(LTPW) (6-2007)