D-1685lg Invitiation Letter Local HEO

D-1685(LG)
(6-2007)

DC

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Economics and Statistics Administration

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

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 $300 billion in federal funds each year. We are requesting your help
to ensure that the Census Bureau’s address list is as accurate as possible for your jurisdiction. Because
the address list is the basis for enumeration, using your local knowledge to improve it is the most
important step you can take toward every person in your community being counted.
The LUCA Program, authorized by the Census Address List Improvement Act of 1994 (Public Law
103-430), provides tribal, state, and local governments the opportunity to review and update the Census
Bureau’s address list. If you choose to participate in the LUCA Program, you will be able to:
• Review and update the Census Bureau’s address list, or submit your local address list to the Census
Bureau in the Census Bureau specified computer-readable format; and
• Review and update the legal boundaries and features on the Census Bureau maps.
The enclosed flyer, Will Your Community Be Ready for the 2010 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 important 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 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 Master Address File/Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding
and Referencing Partnership Software (available free of charge to LUCA Program participants), a
geographic information system software application that allows your government to update both the
address list materials and map information.
If your government 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).

USCENSUSBUREAU
Helping You Make Informed Decisions

www.census.gov

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. If
you register before October 31, 2007, you have the opportunity to provide legal boundary updates
along with your LUCA updates, and the Census Bureau will not send you the 2008 Boundary and
Annexation Survey package in January 2008.
The Census Bureau estimates that it will take between 105 and 1,575 hours to complete the LUCA
review depending on the number of addresses and the rate of address growth and change. This
includes the time needed to read the enclosed invitation materials and complete the registration forms,
and upon receipt of the LUCA materials to read the instructions, assemble and review the LUCA materials and provide updates. Please send comments regarding this burden estimate or any other aspect of
this collection of information, including suggestions for reducing this burden to Paperwork Project
0607-0795, 4600 Silver Hill Road, Room 3K138, Washington, DC 20233, or you may e-mail comments
to ; use "Paperwork Project 0607-0795" as the subject. Please include a copy
of your message addressed to . Under the Paperwork Reduction Act, we
cannot ask you to respond to a collection of information unless it displays a currently valid Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) control number. The OMB number is found in the upper right corner of
each LUCA form.
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
We look forward to working with you.
Sincerely,

Charles Louis Kincannon
Director
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D-1685(LG) (6-2007)