D-1685ltp Invitation Letter

D-1685(LTP)
(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. 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.
The census is based on addresses compiled from many sources. We are requesting your help to
ensure that the Census Bureau’s address list is as accurate as possible for your jurisdiction. The
accuracy and completeness of the address list is critical to the enumeration process and the quality of
the resulting census data. By participating in the LUCA Program, you can help ensure that we achieve
complete coverage in our enumeration of your jurisdiction.
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 all or part of your jurisdiction, including the
part that overlaps the tribal boundary, to the Census Bureau in the Census Bureau specified
computer-readable format; and
• Review and update your legal boundaries and features on the Census Bureau maps.
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.

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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).
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(LTP) (6-2007)