[Federal Register: November 20, 2002 (Volume 67, Number 224)]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Bureau of the Census

[Docket Number 010209034-2252-08]

 
Urban Area Criteria for Census 2000; Correction

AGENCY: Bureau of the Census, Department of Commerce.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: On March 15, 2002 (67 FR 11663), the Bureau of the Census 
(Census Bureau) published a Federal Register Notice of Final Program 
Criteria announcing its criteria for defining urban and rural territory 
based on the results of Census 2000. The Census Bureau is correcting 
the final criteria as they apply to 1990 urbanized areas that did not 
qualify as part of a Census 2000 urbanized area.

EFFECTIVE DATE: November 20, 2002.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Robert W. Marx, Chief, Geography 
Division, U.S. Census Bureau, 4700 Silver Hill Road, Stop 7400, 
Washington, DC 20233-7400; telephone (301) 457-2131; e-mail at: 
ua@geo.census.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On March 15, 2002 (67 FR 11663), the Census 
Bureau published a Federal Register Notice of Final Program Criteria 
announcing its criteria for defining urban and rural territory based on 
the results of Census 2000. The Census Bureau is correcting the final 
criteria as they apply to 1990 urbanized areas that did not qualify as 
part of a Census 2000 urbanized area. The corrections contained in this 
Notice are in addition to the corrections that were published in a 
Federal Register Notice on August 23, 2002 (67 FR 54631). These 
corrections do not affect the earlier correction Notice.
    The Census Bureau is providing the following correction to the 
original Notice.
    Page 11667, Column 1, Section I, Census 2000 Urbanized Area (UA) 
and Urban Cluster (UC) Definitions, the

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Census Bureau is adding a new paragraph, between the first and second 
paragraphs of this Section, to read as follows: ``In addition, the 
Census Bureau will designate a Census 2000 UA when all the territory in 
a previously existing 1990 UA is not included in any other Census 2000 
UA, contains two or more clusters of urban population that reside in 
more than half the territory of the previously existing UA, and the 
combined population of the clusters totals 50,000 or greater.''

Executive Order 12866

    This Notice has been determined to be not significant for purposes 
of Executive Order 12866.

Administrative Procedure and Regulatory Flexibility Acts

    Notice and comment are not required under the Administrative 
Procedure Act (5 U.S.C. 553), or any other law, for rules of agency 
organization, procedure or practice (5 U.S.C. 553(b)(A)). Because 
notice and comment are not required, a Regulatory Flexibility Analysis 
is not required and has not been prepared (5 U.S.C. 603(a)).

Paperwork Reduction Act

    This program Notice does not represent a collection of information 
subject to the requirements of the Paperwork Reduction Act, Title 
44,U.S.C., Chapter 35.

    Dated: November 15, 2002.
Charles Louis Kincannon,
Director, Bureau of the Census.
[FR Doc. 02-29463 Filed 11-19-02; 8:45 am]

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