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17326 Federal Register / Vol. 72, No. 66 / Friday, April 6, 2007 / Notices authority. Along with reservations, Nonvisible feature—A map feature defined for the 2010 Census also will be designations such as colonies, that is not visible on the ground, such used to tabulate American Community communities, pueblos, rancherias, and as a city or county boundary through Survey, Puerto Rico Community Survey, reserves apply to American Indian space, a property line running through and Economic Census data after 2010, reservations. space, a short line-of-sight extension of and potentially data from other Bureau Block Group—A statistical a road, or a point-to-point line of sight. of the Census (Census Bureau) censuses subdivision of a census tract consisting Visible feature—A map feature that and surveys. can be seen on the ground, such as a of all census blocks whose numbers The Census Bureau is publishing this road, railroad track, major above-ground begin with the same digit in a census notice in the Federal Register to request transmission line or pipeline, stream, tract. comments from the public and other shoreline, fence, sharply defined Census block—A geographic area government agencies. The Census mountain ridge, or cliff. A nonstandard bounded by visible and/or invisible Bureau will respond to the comments visible feature is a feature that may not features in the Census Bureau’s received as part of the publication of be clearly defined on the ground (such Topographically Integrated Geographic final criteria in the Federal Register. as a ridge), may be seasonal (such as an Encoding and Referencing system, and After the final criteria are published in intermittent stream), or may be shown on maps prepared by the Census the Federal Register, the Census Bureau relatively impermanent (such as a Bureau. A block is the smallest will offer designated governments or geographic entity for which the Census fence). The Census Bureau generally requests verification that nonstandard organizations an opportunity to review Bureau tabulates decennial census data. and, if necessary, suggest updates to the Census designated place—A statistical features pose no problem in their location during fieldwork. boundaries and attributes of the CDPs in geographic entity with a concentration their geographic area under the of population, housing, and commercial Executive Order 12866 Participant Statistical Areas Program structures that is identifiable by name, (PSAP). In addition to CDPs, the but is not within an incorporated place. This notice has been determined to be not significant under Executive Order program also encompasses the review Census tract—A small, relatively and update of census tracts, block permanent statistical geographic 12866. groups, and census county divisions. division of a county defined for the Paperwork Reduction Act tabulation and publication of Census DATES: Written comments must be This program notice does not Bureau data. The primary goal of the submitted on or before July 5, 2007. represent a collection of information census tract program is to provide a set subject to the requirements of the ADDRESSES: Please direct all written of nationally consistent small, statistical Paperwork Reduction Act, 44 U.S.C. comments on this proposed program to geographic units, with stable Chapter 35. the Director, U.S. Census Bureau, Room boundaries, that facilitate analysis of 8H001, mail stop 0100, Washington, DC data across time. Dated: April 3, 2007. 20233–0001. Conjoint—A description of a Charles Louis Kincannon, boundary shared by two adjacent Director, Bureau of the Census. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: geographic areas. [FR Doc. E7–6464 Filed 4–5–07; 8:45 am] Requests for additional information on Contiguous—A description of BILLING CODE 3510–07–P this proposed program should be geographic areas that are adjacent to one directed to Michael Ratcliffe, Chief, another, sharing either a common Geographic Standards and Criteria boundary or point. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE Branch, Geography Division, U.S. Federally managed land—Territory Census Bureau, via e-mail at that is federally owned and Bureau of the Census [email protected] or telephone at administered by an agency of the U.S. [Docket Number 070104002–7003–01] 301–763–3056. federal government, such as the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: National Park Service, Bureau of Land Census Designated Place (CDP) Management, or Department of Defense. Program for the 2010 Census— I. History Incorporated place—A type of Proposed Criteria governmental unit, incorporated under The CDP concept and delineation AGENCY: Bureau of the Census, state law as a city, town (except in New criteria have evolved over the past five Commerce. England, New York, and Wisconsin), decades in response to data user needs borough (except in Alaska and New ACTION: Notice of proposed program and for place-level data. This evolution has York), or village, generally to provide request for comments. taken into account differences in the way in which places were perceived, specific governmental services for a SUMMARY: Census designated places and the propensity for places to concentration of people within legally (CDPs) 1 are statistical geographic incorporate in various states. The result, prescribed boundaries. entities representing closely settled, over time, has been an increase in the Minor civil division—The primary unincorporated communities that are number and types of unincorporated governmental or administrative division locally recognized and identified by communities identified as CDPs, as well of a county in 28 states, Puerto Rico, name. They are the statistical as increasing consistency in the and the Island Areas having legal equivalents of incorporated places, with relationship between the CDP concept boundaries, names, and descriptions. the primary differences being the lack of and the kinds of places encompassed by MCDs represent many different types of both a legally defined boundary and an the incorporated place category, or a legal entities with a wide variety of active, functioning governmental compromise between localized characteristics, powers, and functions structure, chartered by the state and perceptions of place and a concept that depending on the state and type of administered by elected officials. CDPs MCD. In some states, some or all of the would be familiar to data users incorporated places also constitute 1 The term CDP includes communidades and throughout the United States, Puerto MCDs. zonas urbanas in Puerto Rico. Rico, and the Island Areas. VerDate Aug<31>2005 19:15 Apr 05, 2007 Jkt 211001 PO 00000 Frm 00004 Fmt 4701 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\06APN2.SGM 06APN2 jlentini on PROD1PC65 with NOTICES2 Federal Register / Vol. 72, No. 66 / Friday, April 6, 2007 / Notices 17327 Although not as numerous as relationships before the final tabulation New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, incorporated places or municipalities,2 geography is set for the 2010 Census. and Wisconsin, nor may it encompass CDPs have been important geographic The Census Bureau proposes the the entirety of one town or township entities since their introduction for the following criteria and characteristics for and contain portions of adjacent towns 1950 census. (CDPs were referred to as use in identifying the areas that will or townships. ‘‘unincorporated places’’ from 1950 qualify for designation as CDPs for use This criterion is proposed for the first through the 1970 decennial censuses.) in tabulating data from the 2010 Census, time for the 2010 Census in order to For the 1950 Census, CDPs were defined the American Community Survey, the eliminate redundancy in tabular only outside urbanized areas and were Puerto Rico Community Survey, the presentations of data published by the required to have at least 1,000 residents. Economic Census, and potentially other Census Bureau for towns/townships and For the 1960 Census, CDPs could also be Census Bureau censuses and surveys. places. For instance, because geographic identified inside urbanized areas 1. A CDP constitutes a single, closely comparison tables and inventory tables outside of New England, but these were settled center of population that is providing data for places also contain required to have at least 10,000 named; to the extent possible, data for MCDs within these twelve residents. The Census Bureau modified individual unincorporated communities states, redundancy occurs wherever a the population threshold within should be identified as separate CDPs. CDP is coextensive with an MCD. For urbanized areas to 5,000 in 1970, Similarly, a single community should be example, in place-level tables for allowed for CDPs in urbanized areas in defined as a single CDP as opposed to Massachusetts, data are published for New England in 1980, and lowered the multiple CDPs with each part both Framingham town and urbanized area threshold again to 2,500 referencing the community name and a Framingham CDP, the latter covering in 1990. In time, other population directional term (i.e., north, south, east, the same population and territory as the thresholds were adopted for or west). Since a CDP is defined to former. In adopting this criterion, the identification of CDPs in Alaska, as well provide data for a single, named Census Bureau will explore ways to as in Puerto Rico, the Island Areas, and locality, the Census Bureau generally enhance the presentation and visibility on American Indian reservations. The will not accept combinations of places of data for MCDs in these twelve states, Census Bureau eliminated all and hyphenated place names defined as to make it clearer that many of the population threshold requirements for a CDP. For example, CDPs such as MCDs in these states are seen as similar Census 2000, achieving consistency Poplar-Cotton Center and Downieville- to places in other parts of the United between CDPs and incorporated places, Lawson-Dumont are no longer States. for which the Census Bureau acceptable. Combinations of places 5. A CDP may be located in more than historically has published data without often were defined as a single CDP in one county but must not cross state regard to population size.