[Federal Register: December 21, 1998 (Volume 63, Number 244)]
[Notices]               
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Economics and Statistics Administration

 
Census Advisory Committees

agency: Economics and Statistics Administration, Department of 
Commerce.

action: Notice of public meeting.

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summary: Pursuant to the Federal Advisory Committee Act (Public Law 92-
463, as amended by Pub. L. 94-409, Pub. L. 96-523, and Pub. L. 97-375), 
we are giving notice of a joint meeting of the Commerce Secretary's 
2000 Census Advisory Committee (CAC), the CAC of Professional 
Associations, the CAC on the African American Population, the CAC on 
the American Indian and Alaska Native Populations, the CAC on the Asian 
and Pacific Islander Populations, and the CAC on the Hispanic 
Population. The agenda will be limited to discussing how the Census 
Bureau can best use paid advertising to reach and encourage the 
participation of the African American Population, and the general 
population as a whole, in Census 2000. (A Joint Advisory Committee 
meeting on October 26, 1998 also focused on the advertising campaign to 
reach the general population and the American Indian and Alaska Native, 
Asian and Pacific Islander and Hispanic Populations.) Last minute 
changes to the schedule are possible, and they could prevent us from 
giving advance notice.

dates: On Thursday, January 21, 1999, the meeting will begin at 9:00 
a.m. and adjourn at approximately 3:00 p.m.

addresses: The meeting will take place at the Holiday Inn Hotel & 
Suites, 625 First Street, Alexandria, VA.

for further information contact: Maxine Anderson-Brown, Committee 
Liaison Office, Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, Room 
1647, Federal Building 3, Washington, DC 20233, telephone: 301-457-
2308.

supplementary information: The Commerce Secretary's 2000 Census 
Advisory Committee is composed of a Chair, Vice Chair, and up to 
thirty-five member organizations, all appointed by the Secretary of 
Commerce. The Advisory Committee considers the goals of Census 2000 and 
user needs for information provided by that census. The Committee 
provides an outside user perspective about how operational planning and 
implementation methods proposed for Census 2000 will realize those 
goals and satisfy those needs. The Advisory Committee considers all 
aspects of the conduct of the 2000 Census of Population and Housing and 
makes recommendations to the Secretary of Commerce for improving that 
census.
    The CAC of Professional Associations is composed of 36 members 
appointed by the Presidents of the American Economic Association, the 
American Statistical Association, the Population Association of 
America, and the Chairman of the Board of the American Marketing 
Association. The Committee advises the Director, Bureau of the

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Census, on the full range of Census Bureau programs and activities in 
relation to the areas of expertise.
    The CACs on the African American, American Indian and Alaska 
Native, and Hispanic Populations are composed of nine members each and 
the CAC on the Asian and Pacific Islander Population is composed of 13 
members, appointed by the Secretary of Commerce. The Committees provide 
an organized and continuing channel of communications between the 
communities they represent and the Bureau of the Census on its efforts 
to reduce the differential in the count for Census 2000 and on ways 
that census data can be disseminated to maximum usefulness to their 
communities and other users.
    A brief period will be set aside at the meeting for public comment. 
However, individuals with extensive statements for the record must 
submit them in writing to the Commerce Department official named above 
at least three working days prior to the meeting.
    The meeting is physically accessible to people with disabilities. 
Requests for sign language interpretation or other auxiliary aids 
should be directed to the Census Bureau Committee Liaison Officer on 
301-457-2308, TDD 301-457-2540.

    Dated: December 15, 1998.
Robert J. Shapiro,
Under Secretary for Economic Affairs, Economics and Statistics 
Administration.
[FR Doc 98-33711 Filed 12-18-98; 8:45 am]
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