D-1686sgpw Courtesy Invitation

D-1686(SGPW)
(6-2007)

DC

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Economics and Statistics Administration

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

Recently, the U.S. Census Bureau invited the governor of your state to participate in the 2010
Decennial Census Local Update of Census Addresses (LUCA) Program. The LUCA Program,
authorized by the Census Address List Improvement Act of 1994 (Public Law 103-430), provides state,
local, and tribal governments the opportunity to review and update the Census Bureau’s address list.
The accuracy and completeness of the Census Bureau’s address list is critical to the enumeration
process and the quality of the resulting census data. Your state’s participation in the LUCA Program can
help ensure that we achieve complete coverage in our enumeration of your state.
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 and update the Census Bureau’s address list products for the non-reservation/trust land
portion of your state; or your may elect to focus your review on selected areas within your state; 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 computer-readable format; and
• Review and update the geographic features in the Census Bureau’s geographic database.
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.

USCENSUSBUREAU
Helping You Make Informed Decisions

www.census.gov

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. The flyer answers questions
that may assist your state in deciding whether to participate in this important program. We have also
enclosed 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 software application that allows your state to update both the address list and
map information.
If your state has an active State Data Center, Federal/State Cooperative Program for Population
Estimates, and/or Geographic Information System coordinator, these established Census Bureau
partners may be good candidates for involvement in your LUCA effort.
We will supply your LUCA materials as soon as possible after we receive your state’s 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.
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 review the enclosed information and contact your governor about your state’s participation. Your
governor received the forms required to register to participate in the LUCA Program. 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
Sincerely,

Charles Louis Kincannon
Director
Enclosures

D-1686(SGPW) (6-2007)