[Federal Register: May 20, 1998 (Volume 63, Number 97)]
[Notices]               
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Bureau of the Census
[Docket No. 980512125-8125-01]

 
Decennial Population and Housing Count Determination for Places 
Incorporating or Annexing Between the National Censuses

AGENCY: Bureau of the Census, Commerce.

ACTION: Notice of temporary termination of program.

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SUMMARY: This document serves notice to state and local governments and 
to other Federal agencies that for the next three years, beginning on 
June 1, 1998, the Bureau of the Census will not provide the operations 
necessary to determine the April 1, 1990 census population and housing 
unit counts for entities that annex territory, or that

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incorporate or organize as counties, boroughs, cities, towns, villages, 
townships, or other general purpose governments, between the 1990 and 
2000 decennial censuses.

EFFECTIVE DATE: June 1, 1998.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr. Joel L. Morrison, Chief, Geography 
Division, Bureau of the Census, Washington, D.C. 20233-7400, telephone 
(301) 457-1132, e-mail at jmorrison@geo.census.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Bureau of the Census first began to make 
these count determinations in 1972 in response to the requests of local 
governments to establish eligibility for participation in the General 
Revenue Sharing Program, authorized under Pub. L. 92-512. At that time, 
the Bureau of the Census established a fee-paid program enabling 
entities with annexations to obtain updated decennial census population 
counts that reflected the population living in the boundary change 
areas. The Bureau of the Census received funding from the U.S. 
Department of the Treasury to make those determinations for larger 
annexations that met prescribed criteria and for the new 
incorporations. The General Revenue Sharing Program ended on September 
30, 1986. The Bureau of the Census continued to fund the count update 
operation through fiscal year 1995 for the large annexations and 
through fiscal year 1996 for newly incorporated areas. There is no 
funded Federal legislative requirement that this work continue.
    The Bureau of the Census will renew the program in the year 2001, 
after the availability of Census 2000 data, 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: May 13, 1998.
James F. Holmes,
Acting Director, Bureau of the Census.
[FR Doc. 98-13389 Filed 5-19-98; 8:45 am]
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