D-1685tg Invitation Letter

D-1685(TG)
(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 tribal 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. We are requesting your help to ensure that
the Census Bureau’s address list is as accurate as possible for your reservation and/or off-reservation
trust land(s). Because the address list is the basis for the enumeration, using your local knowledge to
improve it is the most important step you can take toward every person on your reservation and/or
off-reservation trust land 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 of your reservation and/or off-reservation trust
land(s) 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 tribal 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 tribal government to update both
the address list materials and map information.

USCENSUSBUREAU
Helping You Make Informed Decisions

www.census.gov

If your tribal 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 provides addresses located within the boundaries of federally-recognized American
Indian reservations and/or trust lands only to the relevant tribal government for review. If you want any
non-tribal governments with boundaries that overlap yours, or the state government, to participate in
your LUCA review, you can work with them to designate reviewers and then submit confidentiality
agreements for them to participate. If your tribe decides not to participate in the LUCA Program, we
encourage you to delegate your review to one of these other governments (with their prior concurrence).
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(TG) (6-2007)