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for the NSCH. An additional 4,000 ways to enhance the quality, utility, and at [email protected] or telephone addresses will receive the screener card clarity of the information to be at 301–763–3056. in place of the traditional screener collected; and (d) ways to minimize the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: instrument. They will have the option to burden of the collection of information report only if there are children present on respondents, including through the Background at the address or not. Respondents will use of automated collection techniques also have the option to report using the or other forms of information Census designated places (CDPs) 1 are web instrument. We anticipate that the technology. statistical geographic entities screener card instrument will reduce Comments submitted in response to representing closely settled, respondent burden for households this notice will be summarized and/or unincorporated communities that are without children and allow us to more included in the request for OMB locally recognized and identified by efficiently identify households with approval of this information collection; name. They are the statistical children. they also will become a matter of public equivalents of incorporated places, with record. the primary differences being the lack of III. Data a legally defined boundary and an Sheleen Dumas, OMB Control Number: 0607–0990. active, functioning governmental Form Number(s): NSCH–S1 (English Departmental Lead PRA Officer, Office of the Chief Information Officer. structure, chartered by the state and Screener), NSCH–T1 (English Topical administered by elected officials. CDPs [FR Doc. 2018–24681 Filed 11–9–18; 8:45 am] for 0- to 5-year-old children), NSCH–T2 defined for the 2020 Census will also be (English Topical for 6- to 11-year-old BILLING CODE 3510–07–P used to tabulate American Community children), NSCH–T3 (English Topical Survey, Community Survey, for 12- to 17-year-old children), NSCH– DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE and Economic Census data after 2020, S–S1 (Spanish Screener), NSCH–S–T1 and potentially data from other Census (Spanish Topical for 0- to 5-year-old Bureau of the Census Bureau censuses and surveys. children), NSCH–S–T2 (Spanish Topical for 6- to 11-year-old children), NSCH– [Docket Number 180927893–8893–01] The Census Bureau is publishing this S–T3 (Spanish Topical for 12- to 17- notice in the Federal Register to year-old children), and NSCH–SC1 Census Designated Places (CDPs) for announce final criteria for defining (Screener Card—perforated). the 2020 Census—Final Criteria CDPs for the 2020 Census. The Census Bureau did not receive any comments in Type of Review: Regular submission. AGENCY: Bureau of the Census, Affected Public: Parents, researchers, response to proposed criteria published Commerce. policymakers, and family advocates. in the Federal Register on February 15, ACTION: Estimated Number of Respondents: Notice of final criteria and 2018 (83 FR 6934). After publication of 72,900 for the screener, 25,515 for the program implementation. final criteria in the Federal Register, the topical, 2,000 for the screener card, and SUMMARY: Census designated places Census Bureau will offer designated 400 screener card respondents using the (CDPs) are statistical geographic entities governments or organizations an web instrument. representing closely settled, opportunity to review and, if necessary, Estimated Time per Response: 5 unincorporated communities that are suggest updates to the boundaries and minutes per screener response, 33 locally recognized and identified by attributes of the CDPs in their minutes per topical response, 2 minutes name. They are the statistical geographic area under the Participant per screener card response, and 38 equivalents of incorporated places, with Statistical Areas Program (PSAP). In minutes per screener card response the primary differences being the lack of addition to CDPs, the program also using the web instrument. a legally defined boundary and an encompasses the review and update of Estimated Total Annual Burden active, functioning governmental census tracts, block groups, and census Hours: 20,428 hours. divisions. Estimated Total Annual Cost to structure, chartered by the state and administered by elected officials. CDPs Public: $0 (This is not the cost of I. History respondents’ time, but the indirect costs defined for the 2020 Census will also be respondents may incur for such things used to tabulate American Community The CDP concept and delineation as purchases of specialized software or Survey, Puerto Rico Community Survey, criteria have evolved over the past seven hardware needed to report, or and Economic Census data after 2020, decades in response to data user needs expenditures for accounting or records and potentially data from other Bureau for place-level data. This evolution has maintenance services required of the Census (Census Bureau) censuses taken into account differences in the specifically by the collection.) and surveys. The Census Bureau is way in which places were perceived, Respondent’s Obligation: Voluntary. publishing this notice in the Federal and the propensity for places to Register to announce final criteria for Legal Authority: Title 13 U.S.C. Section incorporate in various states. The result, defining CDPs for the 2020 Census. In over time, has been an increase in the 8(b);42 U.S.C. 701; 1769d(a)(4)(B); 42 U.S.C. addition to CDPs, the program also 241; 7 U.S.C. 136r(a); and 15 U.S.C. 2609. number and types of unincorporated encompasses the review and update of communities identified as CDPs. This IV. Request for Comments census tracts, block groups, and census also results in an increasing consistency Comments are invited on: (a) Whether county divisions. in the relationship between the CDP the proposed collection of information DATES: This notice’s final criteria will be concept and the kinds of places is necessary for the proper performance applicable on December 13, 2018. encompassed by the incorporated place of the functions of the agency, including FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: category, or a compromise between whether the information shall have Requests for additional information on localized perceptions of place and a practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the this program should be directed to concept that would be familiar to data agency’s estimate of the burden Vincent Osier, Geographic Standards, (including hours and cost) of the Criteria, and Quality Branch, Geography 1 The term CDP includes comunidades and zonas proposed collection of information; (c) Division, U.S. Census Bureau, via email urbanas in Puerto Rico.

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users throughout the ,2 Register on February 15, 2018 (83 FR together over time and residents Puerto Rico, and the Island Areas.3 6934). As a result, the proposed criteria commonly use the place name Arden- Although not as numerous as are adopted as final criteria without Arcade. Further, because of the incorporated places or municipalities,4 change. intertwined identity, residents would CDPs have been important geographic have difficulty identifying a boundary III. CDP Criteria and Guidelines for the entities since their introduction for the between the separate, historical 2020 Census 1950 Census (CDPs were referred to as communities of Arden and Arcade. ‘‘unincorporated places’’ from 1950 The criteria outlined herein apply to Multiple communities may also be through the 1970 decennial censuses). the United States, including AIRs and defined as a single CDP when there are For the 1950 Census, CDPs were defined off-reservation trust lands, Puerto Rico, no distinguishable or suitable features only outside urbanized areas and were and the Island Areas. In accordance in the landscape that can be used as a required to have at least 1,000 residents. with the final criteria, the Census boundary between the communities, For the 1960 Census, CDPs could also be Bureau may modify and, if necessary, even if the two communities still have identified inside urbanized areas reject any proposals for CDPs that do separate identities. For example, the outside of New England, but these were not meet the established criteria. In CDP of Ashton-Sandy Spring in required to have at least 10,000 addition, the Census Bureau reserves Maryland encompasses two residents. The Census Bureau modified the right to modify the boundaries and communities that still maintain separate the population threshold within attributes of CDPs as needed to maintain identities in common, daily usage. The urbanized areas to 5,000 residents in geographic relationships before the final two communities, however, have grown 1970, allowed for CDPs in urbanized tabulation geography is set for the 2020 together to such an extent that a clear areas in New England in 1980, and Census. break between the two communities is lowered the threshold for CDPs within The Census Bureau proposes the no longer identifiable in the landscape. urbanized areas to 2,500 in 1990. In following criteria and guidelines for use In general, when considering whether to time, other population thresholds were in identifying the areas that will qualify combine multiple communities as a adopted for identification of CDPs in for designation as CDPs for use in single CDP, the following questions Alaska, Puerto Rico, the Island Areas, tabulating data from the 2020 Census, should be taken into account: and on American Indian reservations the American Community Survey, the • Do residents commonly perceive (AIRs). The Census Bureau eliminated Puerto Rico Community Survey, the and refer to the communities as a single all population threshold requirements Economic Census, and potentially other entity? for Census 2000, achieving consistency Census Bureau censuses and surveys. • Are there landscape elements, such between CDPs and incorporated places, 1. A CDP constitutes a single, closely as signs, that use a hyphenated name for for which the Census Bureau settled center of population that is the community? historically has published data without named. To the extent possible, • Can residents or other regard to population size. individual unincorporated communities knowledgeable individuals identify According to the 2010 Census, more should be identified as separate CDPs. clear, commonly accepted boundaries than 38.7 million people in the United Similarly, a single community should be for the individual communities? States, Puerto Rico, and the Island Areas defined as a single CDP rather than 2. A CDP generally consists of a lived in CDPs. The relative importance multiple CDPs with each part contiguous cluster of census blocks of CDPs varies from state to state referencing the community name and a comprising a single piece of territory depending on laws governing municipal directional term (i.e., north, south, east, and containing a mix of residential, incorporation and annexation, but also or west). Since a CDP is defined to nonresidential, and commercial uses depending on local preferences and provide data for a single, named similar to that of an incorporated place attitudes regarding the identification of locality, the Census Bureau generally of similar size. Some CDPs, however, places. will not accept combinations of places may be predominantly residential; such and hyphenated place names defined as places should represent recognizably II. Summary of Comments Received in a CDP. In the past, communities were distinct, locally known communities, Response to Proposed Criteria often combined as a single CDP in order but not typical suburban subdivisions. The Census Bureau’s proposed to comply with the Census Bureau’s Examples of such predominantly criteria for the 2020 Census were former minimum population residential communities that can be unchanged from the final criteria used requirements. The Census Bureau’s recognized as CDPs are colonias, small to delineate CDPs for the 2010 Census. elimination of population threshold rural communities, and unincorporated The Census Bureau did not receive any criteria starting with Census 2000 made resort and retirement communities. comments in response to the proposed such combinations unnecessary. Other 3. A CDP may not be located, either criteria published in the Federal communities were combined because partially or entirely, within an visible features were not available for incorporated place or another CDP. 2 For Census Bureau purposes, the United States use as boundaries for separate CDPs. 4. A CDP may be located in more than typically refers to only the fifty states and the The Census Bureau’s policy to allow the one county but must not cross state District of Columbia, and does not include the U.S. territories (Puerto Rico, the Island Areas, and the use of some nonvisible boundaries so boundaries. It is important to note, U.S. Minor Outlying Islands). that participants can separate individual however, that since county boundaries 3 The Island Areas include the U.S. territories communities has dispensed with the provide important demarcations for , the Commonwealth of the need to have multi-place CDPs. communities, CDPs that cross county , , and the U.S. Multiple communities may only be lines should be kept to a minimum and Virgin Islands. There are no CDPs in American Samoa or the Commonwealth of the Northern combined to form a single CDP when identified only when the community Mariana Islands because villages are considered the identities of these communities have clearly sees itself existing on both sides incorporated places and cover the entire territory become so intertwined that the of a county boundary. and population in each territory communities are commonly perceived 5. There are no minimum population 4 Known by various terms throughout the United States: Cities, towns (except in the six New England and referenced as a single place. For or housing unit thresholds for defining states, New York, and Wisconsin), villages, and example, the communities of Arden and CDPs; however, a CDP must contain boroughs (except in New York and Alaska). Arcade in California have grown some population or housing units or

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both. For the 2020 Census, the Census data from the Census Bureau) that is not Contiguous—A description of areas Bureau will not accept a CDP delineated in regular daily use by the local sharing common boundary lines, more with zero population and zero housing residents and business establishments. than a single point, such that the areas, units. The Census Bureau recognizes 8. A CDP may not have the same when combined, form a single piece of that some communities, such as a resort name as an adjacent or nearby territory. Noncontiguous areas form or other kinds of seasonal communities, incorporated place. If the community disjoint pieces. may lack population at certain times of does not have a name that distinguishes Housing unit—A house, an apartment, the year. Nevertheless, there should be it from other nearby communities, then a mobile home or trailer, or a group of some evidence, generally in the form of the community is not a distinct place. rooms or a single room occupied as a houses, barracks, dormitories, The use of directional terms (‘‘north’’, separate living quarter or, if vacant, commercial buildings and/or other ‘‘south’’, ‘‘east’’, ‘‘west’’, and so forth) to intended for occupancy as a separate nonresidential structures, providing the merely differentiate the name of a CDP living quarter. Separate living quarters basis for local perception of the place’s from a nearby municipality where this are those in which the occupants live existence. The Census Bureau will name is not in local use is not and eat separately from any other review the number of housing units acceptable. For example, the name residents of the building and which within the place, as reported in the ‘‘North Laurel’’ would be permitted if have direct access from outside the previous decennial census or as seen in this name were in local use. The name building or through a common hall. imagery, and consider whether ‘‘Laurel North’’ would not be permitted Incorporated place—A type of additional information is needed before if it were not in local use. Again, this governmental unit, incorporated under recognizing the CDP. Participants has much to do with the way in which state law as a city, town (except in New submitting boundaries for places with people typically refer to the places in England, New York, and Wisconsin), less than ten housing units may be which they live. It is permissible to borough (except in Alaska and New asked to provide additional information change the name of a 2010 CDP for the York), or village, generally to provide attesting to the existence of the CDP. 2020 Census if the new name provides governmental services for a 6. CDP boundaries should follow a better identification of the community. concentration of people within legally visible features, except in those prescribed boundaries. circumstances when a CDP’s boundary IV. Definitions of Key Terms (MCD)—The is coincident with the nonvisible American Indian off-reservation trust primary governmental or administrative boundary of a state, county, minor civil land—An area of land located outside division of a county in 28 states and the division (in the six New England states, the boundaries of an AIR, whose Island Areas having legal boundaries, Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey, New boundaries are established by deed, and names, and descriptions. The MCDs York, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin), or which are held in trust by the U.S. represent many different types of legal incorporated place. CDP boundaries federal government for a federally entities with a wide variety of may follow other nonvisible features in recognized American Indian tribe or characteristics, powers, and functions instances where reliance upon visible members of that tribe. depending on the state and type of features would result in overbounding American (AIR)— MCD. In some states, some or all of the of the CDP in order to include housing An area of land with boundaries incorporated places also constitute units on both sides of a road or street established by final treaty, statute, MCDs. feature. Such boundaries might include Municipio—A type of governmental executive order, and/or court order and parcel boundaries and public land unit that is the primary legal over which a federally recognized survey system lines; fence lines; subdivision of Puerto Rico. The Census American Indian tribal government has national, state, or local park boundaries; Bureau treats the municipio as the governmental authority. Along with ridgelines; or drainage ditches. statistical equivalent of a county. 7. The CDP name should be one that ‘‘reservation,’’ designations such as Nonvisible feature—A map feature is recognized and used in daily colonies, communities, pueblos, that is not visible on the ground and in communication by the residents of the rancherias, and reserves apply to AIRs. imagery such as a city or county community. Because unincorporated Census block—A geographic area boundary through space, a property communities generally lack legally bounded by visible and/or invisible line, or line-of-sight extension of a road. defined boundaries, a commonly used features shown on a map prepared by Statistical geographic entity—A community name and the geographic the Census Bureau. A block is the geographic entity that is specially extent of its use by local residents is smallest geographic entity for which the defined and delineated, such as block often the best identifier of the extent of Census Bureau tabulates and publishes group, CDP, or , so that the a place, the assumption being that if decennial census data. Census Bureau may tabulate data for it. residents associate with a particular Coextensive—A description of two or Designation as a statistical entity neither name and use it to identify the place in more geographic entities that cover conveys nor confers legal ownership, which they live, then the CDP’s exactly the same area, with all entitlement, or jurisdictional authority. boundaries can be mapped based on the boundaries shared. Urbanized area (UA)—An area use of the name. There should be Colonia—A small, generally consisting of a central place(s) and features in the landscape that use the unincorporated community located in adjacent urban fringe that together have name, such that a non-resident would one of the states on the U.S.-Mexico a minimum residential population of at have a general sense of the location or border where residents often build or least 50,000 people and generally an extent of the community; for example, provide their own housing and that overall population density of at least signs indicating when one is entering usually lacks utilities, paved roads, and 1,000 people per square mile. The the community; highway exit signs that other infrastructure typically found Census Bureau uses published criteria use the name; or businesses, schools, or other similarly sized communities. to determine the qualification and other buildings that make use of the Comunidad—A CDP in Puerto Rico boundaries of UAs at the time of each name. It should not be a name that is not related to a municipio’s seat decennial census. developed solely for planning or other of government, called an aldea or a Visible feature—A map feature that purposes (including simply to obtain ciudad prior to the 1990 Census. can be seen on the ground and in

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imagery, such as a road, railroad track, Vincent Osier at the Geographic As use of census block, block group, major above-ground transmission line or Standards, Criteria, and Quality Branch, and census tract data increased among pipeline, river, stream, shoreline, fence, Geography Division, U.S. Census data users, the Census Bureau expanded sharply defined mountain ridge, or cliff. Bureau, via email at geo.psap.list@ these programs to cover additional A nonstandard visible feature is a census.gov or by telephone at 301–763– geographic areas while redefining the feature that may not be clearly defined 3056. population threshold criteria to more on the ground (such as a ridge), may be SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: adequately suit data users’ needs. The seasonal (such as an intermittent 1990 Census was the first in which stream), or may be relatively Background census blocks and block groups were impermanent (such as a fence). The Block groups are statistical geographic defined throughout the entirety of the Census Bureau generally requests subdivisions of a census tract defined United States, Puerto Rico, and the verification that nonstandard features for the tabulation and presentation of Island Areas. For the 2000 Census, as used as boundaries for the PSAP data from the decennial census and with census tracts, the Census Bureau geographic areas pose no problem in selected other statistical programs. increased the number of geographic their location during field work. Block groups also will be used to areas whose boundaries could be used Zona urbana—In Puerto Rico, the tabulate and publish estimates from the as block group boundaries, and allowed settled area functioning as the seat of American Community Survey (ACS) 1 tribal governments of federally government for a municipio. A zona after 2020 and potentially data from recognized American Indian tribes with urbana cannot cross a municipio other Bureau of the Census (Census a reservation and/or off-reservation trust boundary. Bureau) censuses and surveys. lands to delineate tribal block groups without regard to state and/or county Dated: October 30, 2018. The Census Bureau is publishing this notice in the Federal Register to boundaries, provided the tribe had a Ron S. Jarmin, 1990 Census population of at least Deputy Director, Performing the Non- announce final criteria for defining block groups for the 2020 Census. In 1,000. Exclusive Functions and Duties of the For the 2010 Census, the Census addition to providing final criteria for Director, Bureau of the Census. Bureau adopted changes to block group block groups, this notice also contains a [FR Doc. 2018–24571 Filed 11–9–18; 8:45 am] criteria that recognized their utility as a summary of comments received in BILLING CODE 3510–07–P framework of small geographic areas response to proposed criteria published and established tribal block groups as a in the Federal Register on February 15, geographic framework for presenting DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 2018 (83 FR 6937), as well as the Census and analyzing statistical and other data Bureau’s response to those comments. Bureau of the Census for a variety of communities, settlement After publication of this final criteria in patterns, and landscapes. The Census [Docket Number 180926886–8886–01] the Federal Register, the Census Bureau Bureau augmented its minimum and will offer designated governments or maximum population threshold with Block Groups for the 2020 Census— organizations an opportunity to review housing unit thresholds for use in Final Criteria and, if necessary, suggest updates to the defining block groups for seasonal boundaries and attributes of the block communities that have no or low AGENCY: Bureau of the Census, groups in their geographic area under Commerce. population on census day (April 1). In the Participant Statistical Areas Program addition, the Census Bureau formalized ACTION: Notice of final criteria and (PSAP). In addition to block groups, the criteria for block groups defined for program implementation. program also encompasses the review employment centers, airports, parks, and update of census tracts, census SUMMARY: Block groups are statistical large water bodies, and other special designated places, and census county geographic subdivisions of a census land uses that had been permitted in divisions. The Census Bureau published tract defined for the tabulation and previous decades, but never specified a notice, explaining PSAP process and presentation of data from the decennial within the criteria. The Census Bureau participation, in the Federal Register on census and selected other statistical also established tribal block groups as a November 28, 2017 (82 FR 56208). programs. Block groups also will be geographic framework defined within used to tabulate and publish estimates I. History of Block Groups federally recognized American Indian from the American Community Survey reservations and off-reservation trust The Census Bureau first delineated lands that is fully separate from the (ACS) after 2020 and potentially data block groups as statistical geographic from other Bureau of the Census standard block groups defined within divisions of census tracts for the 1970 counties. (Census Bureau) censuses and surveys. Census, comprising contiguous The Census Bureau is publishing this combinations of census blocks for data II. Summary of Comments Received in notice in the Federal Register to presentation purposes. At that time, Response to the Proposed Criteria announce final criteria for defining census block groups only existed in block groups for the 2020 Census The Federal Register notice published urbanized areas in which census blocks on February 15, 2018 (83 FR 6937) Participant Statistical Areas Program were defined. Block groups were (PSAP). In addition to block groups, the requested comment on the proposed defined without regard to political and block group criteria for the 2020 Census. program also encompasses the review administrative boundaries, with an and update of census tracts, census The proposed criteria were unchanged average population of 1,000, and to be from the final criteria adopted for the designated places, and census county approximately equal in area. divisions. 2010 Census. The Census Bureau received DATES: This notice’s final criteria will be 1 The ACS is conducted in the United States and comments from 16 individuals on one applicable on December 13, 2018. in Puerto Rico. In Puerto Rico the survey is called or more topics related to (1) use of non- FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: the Puerto Rico Community Survey. For ease of discussion, throughout this document the term ACS visible political boundaries when Requests for additional information on is used to represent the surveys conducted in the defining block groups, (2) use of this program should be directed to United States and in Puerto Rico. employment data to define block groups

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