[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 203 (Friday, October 19, 2018)]
[Notices]
[Page 53029]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2018-22823]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Bureau of the Census

[Docket Number: 180920854-8854-01]


Suspension of the Geographically Updated Population Certification 
Program for Places Incorporating or Annexing Between Censuses

AGENCY: Bureau of the Census, Department of Commerce.

ACTION: Notice of suspension of program.

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SUMMARY: This document serves as notice to state and local governments 
and to other federal agencies that beginning on January 1, 2019, the 
Bureau of the Census (Census Bureau) will suspend the Geographically 
Updated Population Certification Program for three years--the year 
preceding the decennial census, the decennial census year, and the year 
following it--to accommodate the 2020 Census operation. During this 
time, the Census Bureau will not provide the operations necessary to 
determine the updated April 1, 2010 census population and housing unit 
counts for entities that: Annex territory; incorporate or organize as 
counties; or incorporate or organize as boroughs, cities, towns, 
villages, townships, or other general purpose governments. However, the 
Census Bureau will consider all requests for population and housing 
count updates received in writing before January 1, 2019.

DATES: As of January 1, 2019, the Geographically Updated Population 
Certification Program will be suspended. It will remain suspended until 
December 31, 2021.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. Darryl Cohen, Population Division, 
U.S. Census Bureau, 4600 Silver Hill Road, Washington, DC 20233, 
telephone (301) 763-2419, email [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Census Bureau first began to make 
updated decennial census count determinations to reflect geographic 
boundary changes in 1972 in response to the requests of local 
governments to establish eligibility for participation in the General 
Revenue Sharing Program, authorized under Public Law 92-512. At that 
time, the Census Bureau established a fee-for-service program enabling 
entities with annexations to obtain updated decennial census population 
counts that reflected the population living in the annexed areas. The 
Census Bureau also received funding from the U.S. Department of the 
Treasury to make those determinations for larger annexations that met 
prescribed criteria and for new incorporations. The General Revenue 
Sharing Program ended on September 30, 1986, but the certification 
program continued into 1988 with support for the Census Bureau. The 
program was suspended to accommodate the 1990 Census operations and 
resumed in 1992. The Census Bureau supported the program through fiscal 
year 1995 for cities with large annexations and through fiscal year 
1996 for new incorporated places. The program was continued on a fee-
for-service basis only until June 1, 1998, at which time it was 
suspended for the 2000 Census (see the Federal Register, 63 FR 27706, 
May 20, 1998). In 2002, the program was resumed and has since been 
referred to as the Geographically Updated Population Certification 
Program or GUPCP (see the Federal Register, 67 FR 72095, December 4, 
2002). As was the case for two previous censuses, the program was 
suspended to accommodate the 2010 Census operations (see the Federal 
Register, 72 FR 46602, August 21, 2007). The suspension began on 
January 1, 2008 and ended on December 31, 2012 (see the Federal 
Register, 78 FR 54863, September 6, 2013).
    The Census Bureau is suspending the program for the year 
immediately preceding, the year of, and year following the 2020 Census 
to permit allocation of necessary resources to the decennial census. 
However, all requests for population and housing count updates received 
before January 1, 2019 will be considered. The Census Bureau will 
announce in a future Federal Register notice the date that the program 
will resume. The Census Bureau plans to resume the program in the year 
2022, after 2020 Census data become available, for those entities that 
desire the service provided that any and all costs associated with this 
work are borne by the local governmental entity.
    Authority to continue this program on a fee-for-service basis is 
contained in Title 13, United States Code, Section 8.

    Dated: October 15, 2018.
Ron S. Jarmin,
Deputy Director, Performing the Non-Exclusive Functions and Duties of 
the Director, Bureau of the Census.
[FR Doc. 2018-22823 Filed 10-18-18; 8:45 am]
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