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65572 Notices Federal Register Vol. 73, No. 214 Tuesday, November 4, 2008 This section of the FEDERAL REGISTER naming of ANVSAs to ensure more state, and local officials using criteria contains documents other than rules or consistent and comparable ANSVAs and and guidelines developed in an open proposed rules that are applicable to the more meaningful, relevant, and reliable process. It is the responsibility of the public. Notices of hearings and investigations, statistical data for Alaska Natives and Census Bureau to ensure that geographic committee meetings, agency decisions and their ANAs.2 This Notice also contains entity criteria and guidelines achieve rulings, delegations of authority, filing of petitions and applications and agency definitions of key terms used in the the goal of providing meaningful, statements of organization and functions are ANVSA criteria and guidelines for the relevant, and reliable statistical data. examples of documents appearing in this 2010 Census. While aware that there are non-Census section. The Census Bureau will publish a Bureau uses of ANAs and the data separate notice in the Federal Register tabulated for them, the Census Bureau with final criteria and guidelines for will not modify ANA boundaries or DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE American Indian Areas (AIAs) for the attributes specifically to meet the 2010 Census. The Census Bureau will requirements of any of these Bureau of the Census offer designated tribal governments or programmatic uses, including any associations an opportunity through the [Docket Number 070913515–81311–02] attempt to meet the specific program Tribal Statistical Areas Program (TSAP) requirements of other government Alaska Native Areas (ANAs) Program to review and, if necessary, suggest agencies. Further, changes made to a for the 2010 Census—Notice of Final updates to the boundaries and names of geographic entity to meet the Criteria and Guidelines their ANAs. requirements of a specific non-Census DATES: Effective Date: This Notice’s final Bureau program may have detrimental AGENCY: Bureau of the Census, criteria and guidelines will be effective effects on uses of the same geographic Commerce. on November 4, 2008. entity for other programs. In addition, ACTION: Notice of final criteria, FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: The the Census Bureau makes no attempt to guidelines, and program Geographic Standards and Criteria specifically link the establishment of implementation. Branch, Geography Division, U.S. statistical geographic entities to federal, Census Bureau, via e-mail at tribal, or state laws. SUMMARY: The Bureau of the Census [email protected] or telephone at The development of the ANAs has (Census Bureau) is providing (301) 763–3056. been an evolutionary process in which notification of final criteria and SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Pursuant the Census Bureau has worked with guidelines for Alaska Native Areas to Title 13 of the United States Code various data users to develop geographic (ANAs) for the 2010 Census. Criteria are (U.S.C.), Section 141(a) (2000), the entities that both aid in census those rules and conditions that must be Secretary of Commerce, as delegated to enumeration and tabulation activities met when defining a geographic entity; the Census Bureau, undertakes the and are meaningful for Alaska Natives, guidelines are procedures and measures decennial census every ten years ‘‘in their governments, associations working suggested by the Census Bureau to such form and content as he may with Alaska Natives, and the federal and enhance the utility of statistical determine.’’ This language gives wide state agencies administering tribal geographic areas for presentation and discretion to the Census Bureau in programs benefiting Alaska Natives. analysis of statistical data. ANAs are taking the census. ANRCs are corporate entities geographic entities within the state of The Census Bureau portrays the organized to conduct both for-profit and Alaska defined for the collection, boundaries of both legal and statistical non-profit affairs of Alaska Natives tabulation, and presentation of geographic entities for the purpose of pursuant to the Alaska Native Claims decennial census data and will be used collecting, tabulating, and presenting Settlement Act (ANCSA) (as amended) for the 2010 Census. ANAs also will be meaningful, relevant, and reliable (43 U.S.C. 1601 et seq. (2000)). ANRCs used to tabulate and present period statistical data from the decennial are geographic entities with legally estimates from the American census, the ACS, and potentially other defined boundaries that subdivide all of Community Survey (ACS) after 2010 censuses and surveys. The Census Alaska into twelve regions, except for and potentially other Census Bureau Bureau attempts to develop objective the area within the Annette Island statistical data. ANAs consist of two criteria and guidelines to establish Reserve (an AIR under the governmental types of unique geographic entities: geographic entities that meet this authority of the Metlakatla Indian Alaska Native Regional Corporations purpose. Community). A thirteenth non- (ANRCs) and Alaska Native village The Census Bureau is committed to geographic ANRC represents Alaska 1 statistical areas (ANVSAs) . The Census delineating geographic entity Natives who do not belong to one of the Bureau has not changed the process for boundaries in partnership with tribal, other twelve ANRCs; the Census Bureau naming and delineating boundaries of does not tabulate or present data for this ANRCs from that used in Census 2000. 2 The term Alaska Native used throughout this thirteenth ANRC. The twelve geographic The Census Bureau announces revisions document refers to anyone who (a) self-identifies as ANRCs are what the Census Bureau to the criteria and guidelines for an American Indian and/or an Alaska Native alone or in combination with one or more other races, and terms ‘‘legal geographic entities.’’ There eligibility, location, delineation, and (b) resides in Alaska. If using race data from Census are no changes to the process by which 2000 rather than some other data source, use data the Census Bureau acquires updates to 1 For Census Bureau purposes, the Annette Island for ‘‘American Indian and Alaska Native alone or Reserve in Alaska is considered an American Indian in combination with one or more races’’ to ANRC boundaries and names. area (AIA), more specifically an American Indian determine if an ANVSA meets the final delineation ANVSAs are statistical geographic reservation (AIR), not an ANA. criteria and guidelines. entities representing the residences, VerDate Aug<31>2005 15:23 Nov 03, 2008 Jkt 217001 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\04NON1.SGM 04NON1 dwashington3 on PRODPC61 with NOTICES Federal Register / Vol. 73, No. 214 / Tuesday, November 4, 2008 / Notices 65573 permanent and/or seasonal, for Alaska For the 1980 Census, the Census encouraged to delineate ANVSA Natives who are members of or receive Bureau worked with Alaska State boundaries for the 1990 Census to governmental services from the defining officials to identify the names and facilitate enumeration of Alaska Natives, Alaska Native village (ANV), and that locations of ANVs recognized in especially in remote Alaska. To meet the are located within the region and accordance with the ANCSA, and to need for suitable boundaries for use in vicinity of the ANV’s historic and/or delineate their boundaries. The collecting, tabulating, and presenting traditional location. ANVSAs are boundaries of most ANVs coincided data for ANV housing and population intended to represent the relatively with the boundaries of other census by aiding in the correct allocation of densely settled portion of each ANV and geographic entities, in particular housing units and thus population, should include only an area where incorporated places and CDPs. For the ANVSA boundaries were required to Alaska Natives, especially members of few remaining ANVs whose boundaries follow physical features that would the defining ANV, represent a did not coincide with incorporated likely be visible to census enumerators, substantial proportion of the population place or CDP boundaries, the Census such as roads, trails, shorelines, rivers, during at least one season of the year (at Bureau delineated boundaries that streams, and ridgelines, or locally least three consecutive months). corresponded to one or more known boundaries of other legal ANVSAs also should not contain large enumeration districts (similar to the geographic entities, such as boroughs,3 areas that are unpopulated or that do block groups of later censuses). For the ANRCs, etc. For the 1990 Census, the not include concentrations of Alaska 1980 Census, the Census Bureau Census Bureau identified 217 ANVSAs. Natives, especially members of the identified 209 ANVs. There were no changes to the types of defining ANV. For the 2010 Census, the After reviewing these data from the ANAs identified for Census 2000. Census Bureau has adopted the ANVSA 1980 Census, the Census Bureau Similar to the 1990 Census, ANRC criteria and guidelines conveyed within discovered that the territory boundaries were reviewed by officials of this Notice. The final criteria and encompassing housing units and the ANRC non-profit associations. A few guidelines are discussed more fully population associated with an ANV did small boundary corrections were made below. not necessarily correspond with the for some of the ANRCs. The new territory of an incorporated place