[Federal Register: January 28, 2008 (Volume 73, Number 18)]
[Notices]               
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From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

 
Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request

    The Department of Commerce will submit to the Office of Management 
and Budget (OMB) for clearance the following proposal for collection of 
information under the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 
U.S.C. chapter 35).
    Agency: U.S. Census Bureau.
    Title: Local Update of Census Addresses (LUCA) Program.
    Form Number(s): D-1663 through D-1706.
    OMB Control Number: 0607-0795.
    Type of Request: Extension of a currently approved collection.
    Burden Hours: 3,909,829.
    Number of Respondents: 19,780.
    Average Hours Per Response: 197 hours and 40 minutes.
    Needs and Uses: The information to be collected in the Local Update 
of Census Addresses (LUCA) Program is essential to the mission of the 
Census Bureau and will directly contribute to the successful outcome of 
Census 2010. The Census Bureau requested and received emergency 
clearance from OMB so that the LUCA Program start-up was not delayed. 
That emergency clearance expires February, 2008.
    The LUCA Program was developed by the U.S. Census Bureau to meet 
the requirements of the Census Address List Improvement Act of 1994, 
Public Law 103-430. Under the voluntary LUCA Program, participating 
governments may review the Census Bureau's confidential list of 
individual living quarters addresses and provide address additions, 
corrections, deletions, and/or the identification of corrected address 
counts for census blocks; street and street attribute updates; and 
legal boundary updates. Governments electing to participate in the LUCA 
program also provide program contact information; certification of 
their agreement to maintain the confidentiality of the Census Bureau 
address information; responses regarding their physical and information 
technology security capabilities; program option and product media 
preference information; shipment inventory information; certification 
of their return/destruction of materials containing confidential data; 
and, for participants not submitting address list changes, their 
reasons for not doing so. The program will be available to tribal, 
state, and local governments, and the District of Columbia and Puerto 
Rico (or their designated representatives) in areas for which the 
Census Bureau performs a precensus address canvassing operation 
(excluded are sparsely settled areas in the states of Alaska and 
Maine). The LUCA program includes federally-recognized American Indian 
tribes with reservations and/or off-reservation trust lands, states, 
and general-purpose local governments, such as cities and townships, 
for which the Census Bureau reports data. This information collection 
will occur between August 2007 and May 2008.
    The Census Bureau will use the LUCA program to help develop the 
housing unit and group quarters (e.g., college dormitory, nursing home, 
correctional facility, etc.) address information that it will need to 
conduct the 2010 Decennial Census. Because tribal, state, and local 
governments have current knowledge of and data about where housing 
growth and change are occurring in their jurisdictions, their input 
into the overall

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development of the address list for the census makes a vital 
contribution. .
    Affected Public: State, local or Tribal government.
    Frequency: One-time.
    Respondent's Obligation: Voluntary.
    Legal Authority: Title 13 U.S.C., Section 16.
    OMB Desk Officer: Brian Harris-Kojetin, (202) 395-7314.
    Copies of the above information collection proposal can be obtained 
by calling or writing Diana Hynek, Departmental Paperwork Clearance 
Officer, (202) 482-0266, Department of Commerce, Room 6625, 14th and 
Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20230 (or via the Internet at 
dhynek@doc.gov).
    Written comments and recommendations for the proposed information 
collection should be sent within 30 days of publication of this notice 
to Brian Harris-Kojetin, OMB Desk Officer either by fax (202-395-7245) 
or e-mail (bharrisk@omb.eop.gov).

    Dated: January 22, 2008.
Gwellnar Banks,
Management Analyst, Office of the Chief Information Officer.
 [FR Doc. E8-1410 Filed 1-25-08; 8:45 am]

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