FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
                    FRIDAY, JANUARY 7, 2000

Decennial Media Relations                                   CB00-CN.03
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                **CENSUS BUREAU MEDIA ADVISORY**

   Commerce Secretary and Census Bureau Director to Announce
    Campaign to Encourage Civic Participation in Census 2000

   Commerce Secretary William M. Daley and Census Bureau Director Kenneth
Prewitt will announce a new initiative to encourage participation in
Census 2000 at the grassroots level in a news conference at the National
Press Club on Tuesday, Jan. 11, from 9:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. EST.

   The initiative, called How America Knows What America Needs, challenges
communities to increase participation levels in Census 2000 over their
1990 levels.

    Date:Tuesday, Jan. 11, 2000
    Time: 9:30 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.  EST
    Place:National Press Club ballroom
   14th and F Streets, N.W.
   Washington, D.C.

   The news conference will be webcast live via the Internet from the
Census Bureau's Internet site http://www.census.gov.

   Video news feed times and coordinates are:
   January 11, 2000
   3:30-4:00 p.m. EST
   Galaxy 6/Transponder 11 (C) Band

   January 12, 2000
   10-10:30 a.m. EST
   Telstar 4/Transponder 23 (C) Band

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