The U.S. Census Bureau developed the
Local Update of Census Addresses Operation (LUCA) prior to the 2000
Census to meet the requirements of the Census Address List
Improvement Act of 1994, Public Law 103-430. The Census Bureau will
use information collected through LUCA to help develop the housing
unit and group quarters (e.g., college dormitory, nursing home,
correctional facility) address information that it will need to
conduct the decennial census. LUCA is voluntary for governmental
units. Participating governments may review the Census Bureau's
Title 13 U.S.C. confidential list of individual living quarters
addresses and provide to the Census Bureau address additions,
corrections, deletions, structure point coordinates, and road
updates. Participating governments also may provide spatial and
attribute updates for addresses and roads. Governments electing to
participate in LUCA also provide contact information, certification
of their agreement to maintain the confidentiality of the Census
Bureau address information, responses regarding their physical and
information technology security capability, product media
preference information, shipment inventory information, and
certification of their destruction or return of materials
containing confidential data. LUCA will be available to tribal,
state, and local governments, the District of Columbia, and Puerto
Rico (or their designated representatives) in areas for which the
Census Bureau performs a pre-census Address Canvassing Operation. A
majority of governments will have some area that will be included
in the Address Canvassing Operation. LUCA is available to legally
defined federally recognized Native American and Alaska Native
areas (including the Alaska Native Regional Corporations), states,
governmentally active counties and equivalent entities,
incorporated places, and legally defined Minor Civil Divisions
(MCDs) for which the Census Bureau reports data. LUCA will occur
between January 2017 and June 2020. LUCA comprises five stages: •
Advance Notice • Invitation • Address Review • Feedback •
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On behalf of this Federal agency, I certify that
the collection of information encompassed by this request complies
with 5 CFR 1320.9 and the related provisions of 5 CFR
1320.8(b)(3).
The following is a summary of the topics, regarding
the proposed collection of information, that the certification
covers:
(i) Why the information is being collected;
(ii) Use of information;
(iii) Burden estimate;
(iv) Nature of response (voluntary, required for a
benefit, or mandatory);
(v) Nature and extent of confidentiality; and
(vi) Need to display currently valid OMB control
number;
If you are unable to certify compliance with any of
these provisions, identify the item by leaving the box unchecked
and explain the reason in the Supporting Statement.