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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Bureau of the Census
[Docket Number 140626541–4541–01]
Establishment of the 2020 Census
Redistricting Data Program
Bureau of the Census,
Department of Commerce
ACTION: Notice of Program.
AGENCY:
This notice announces and
seeks comments on the establishment of
the 2020 Census Redistricting Data
Program. Required by law, the program
provides states the opportunity to
specify the small geographic areas for
which they wish to receive 2020
decennial population totals for the
purpose of reapportionment and
redistricting.
SUMMARY:
Comments on this notice are due
by September 5, 2014. The deadline for
states to notify the Bureau of the Census
(Census Bureau) that they wish to
participate in Phase 1, the Block
Boundary Suggestion Project, is August
1, 2015.
ADDRESSES: Please direct all written
comments on this notice to the Director,
U.S. Census Bureau, 4600 Silver Hill
Road, Room 8H–002, Washington DC
20233.
DATES:
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Catherine C. McCully, Chief, Census
Redistricting Data Office, U.S. Census
Bureau, Room 8H–019, Washington DC
20233, telephone (301) 763–4039.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under the
provisions of Title 13, Section 141(c) of
the United States Code (U.S.C.), the
Secretary of Commerce (Secretary) is
required to provide the ‘‘officers or
public bodies having initial
responsibility for the legislative
apportionment or districting of each
state . . .’’ with the opportunity to
specify geographic areas (e.g., voting
districts) for which they wish to receive
decennial census population counts for
the purpose of reapportionment or
redistricting.
By April 1 of the year following the
decennial census, the Secretary is
required to furnish the state officials or
their designees with population counts
for American Indian areas, counties,
cities, census blocks, and state-specified
congressional, legislative districts, and
voting districts.
In accordance with the provisions of
13 U.S.C. 141(c), the Director of the
Census Bureau, on behalf of the
Secretary of Commerce, announces the
establishment of the 2020 Census
Redistricting Data Program. The Census
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Bureau will issue an invitation to the
officers or public bodies having initial
responsibility for legislative
reapportionment and redistricting this
fall through the Census Redistricting
Data Office inviting states to identify a
non-partisan liaison that will work
directly with the Census Bureau on the
2020 Census Redistricting Data Program.
Once these liaisons are established, the
Census Bureau will coordinate
communications involving the
commencement of the program.
Since the 1990 Census, participation
in both the Census Redistricting Data
Program’s Block Boundary Suggestion
Project and Voting District Project (2020
Redistricting Data Program Phases 1 and
2) under 13 U.S.C. is voluntary on the
part of each state. However, if states
choose not to participate in Phase 1 and
Phase 2, the Census Bureau cannot
ensure that the decennial census 2020
tabulation geography will support the
redistricting needs of their state.
Phase 1: Block Boundary Suggestion
Project (BBSP)
Beginning in the late summer of 2014,
the Census Bureau will correspond with
the legislative leadership and executive
officer of each state to establish a 2020
Census Redistricting Data Program
liaison. The Census Bureau will
formally announce through a
subsequent Federal Register Notice the
commencement of Phase 1, the Block
Boundary Suggestion Project (BBSP).
The purpose of the BBSP is to afford
states the opportunity to identify nonstandard features often used as electoral
boundaries (such as a powerline or
stream, rather than a street centerline
which might divide voters into two
districts) as census block boundaries.
The BBSP option affords the state
liaison the opportunity to provide
suggestions for 2020 census tabulation
block boundaries resulting in more
meaningful block data for the state.
Liaisons are able to work with local
officials including county election
officers and others to ensure local
geography is represented in the 2020
tabulation block inventory. In addition,
the liaison, on behalf of the state, will
make suggestions for features not
desirable as census tabulation blocks.
By identifying undesirable features, the
liaison may assist the Bureau in
reducing the overall number of census
tabulation blocks from the 2010
inventory. Beginning in late fall of 2015,
states that choose to participate in Phase
1 will begin receiving guidelines and
training for providing their suggestions
for the 2020 census tabulation blocks as
well as their suggestions for exclusion of
line segments for consideration in the
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district plans and prepares appropriate
data sets based on the new districts.
This effort will occur every two years in
advance of the 2030 Census in order to
update these boundaries with new or
changed plans. A verification phase will
occur with each update.
Phase 2: Voting District Project (VTDP)
The Census Bureau will formally
announce through a subsequent Federal
Register Notice the commencement of
Phase 2, the Voting District Project. The
VTDP will provide the state liaison, on
behalf of the state, to submit the voting
districts (a generic term used to
represent areas that administer elections
such as precincts, election districts,
wards, etc.) to the Census Bureau for
representation in the 2020 Census P.L.
94–171 products (data and geographic
products). Beginning in late 2017, states
that choose to participate in Phase 2, the
Voting District Project will receive on a
flow basis, geographic products that
afford them the opportunity to update
the Voting Districts (VTDs) for inclusion
in the 2020 Census tabulation
geography. State liaisons will continue
to align their effort with updates from
state and local government officials
participating in the BAS. The VTD/BAS
update and alignment will continue
through spring of 2018. A verification
phase will occur in early 2019 for states
that participated in Phase 2.
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final 2020 census tabulation block
inventory. For the first time, states will
have the opportunity to review legal
limits, such as incorporated places,
American Indian areas and county
boundaries, as reported through the
Boundary and Annexation Survey
(BAS). The alignment of the BAS with
the BBSP will facilitate the cooperation
between state and local government. A
verification phase will occur in early
2017.
As the final phase of the 2020 Census
Redistricting Data Program, the Census
Bureau will work with the states to
conduct a thorough review of the
program. The intent of this review, and
the final report that results, is to provide
guidance to the Secretary of Commerce
and the Census Bureau Director in
planning the 2030 Census Redistricting
Data Program.
Please address questions concerning
any aspect of the 2020 Census
Redistricting Data Program to the person
identified in the contact section of this
notice.
Phase 5: Review of the 2020 Census
Redistricting Data Program and
Recommendations for the 2030
Redistricting Data Program
Dated: July 9, 2014.
John H. Thompson,
Director, Bureau of the Census.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Foreign-Trade Zones Board
[B–49–2014]
Phase 3: Delivery of the Decennial
Census 2020 Redistricting Data
By April 1, 2021, the Director of the
Census Bureau will, in accordance with
13 U.S.C. 141(c), furnish the Governor
and state legislative leaders, both the
majority and minority, with 2020
Census population counts for standard
census tabulation areas (e.g., state,
Congressional district, state legislative
district, American Indian area, county,
city, town, census tract, census block
group, and census block) regardless of a
state’s participation in Phase 1 or 2. The
Director of the Census Bureau will
provide 2020 population counts for
those states participating in Phase 2, for
both the standard tabulation areas and
for voting districts. For each state, this
delivery will occur prior to general
release and no later than April 1, 2021.
Foreign-Trade Zone 203—Moses Lake,
Washington; Application for
Reorganization (Expansion of Service
Area) Under Alternative Site
Framework
Phase 4: Collection of Post-Census 2010
Redistricting Data Plans
Beginning in 2021, the Census Bureau
will solicit from each state the newly
drawn legislative and Congressional
Dated: July 10, 2014.
Andrew McGilvray,
Executive Secretary.
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A notice which appeared recently in
the Federal Register (79 FR 39365–
3966,07/10/2014) regarding an
application submitted to the ForeignTrade Zones (FTZ) Board by the Port of
Moses Lake Public Corporation,
requesting authority to expand its
service area under the alternative site
framework (ASF) had an incorrect
docket number of B–49–2013. The
correct docket number is B–49–2014.
For further information, contact
Christopher Kemp at
Christopher.Kemp@trade.gov or (202)
482–0862.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
[A–549–822]
Certain Frozen Warmwater Shrimp
From Thailand: Rescission of
Antidumping Duty Administrative
Review; 2013–2014
Enforcement and Compliance,
International Trade Administration,
Department of Commerce.
SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce
(the Department) is rescinding the
administrative review of the
antidumping duty order on certain
frozen warmwater shrimp from
Thailand for the period February 1,
2013, through January 31, 2014.
DATES: Effective Date: July 15, 2014.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Alice Maldonado or Dennis McClure,
Enforcement and Compliance,
International Trade Administration,
U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th
Street and Constitution Avenue NW.,
Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202)
482–4682 or (202) 482–5973,
respectively.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
AGENCY:
Background
On February 3, 2014, the Department
published in the Federal Register a
notice of ‘‘Opportunity to Request
Administrative Review’’ of the
antidumping duty order on certain
frozen warmwater shrimp (shrimp) from
Thailand for the period of February 1,
2013, through January 31, 2014.1 During
the anniversary month of February
2014, the Department received timely
requests, in accordance with section
751(a) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as
amended (the Act), and 19 CFR
351.213(b), for an administrative review
of this antidumping duty order from the
Ad Hoc Shrimp Trade Action
Committee (the petitioner), the
American Shrimp Processors
Association (ASPA), and certain
individual companies.2 On April 2,
2014, the Department published in the
Federal Register a notice of initiation
listing the 163 companies for which the
Department received timely requests for
review.3
1 See Antidumping or Countervailing Duty Order,
Finding, or Suspended Investigation; Opportunity
to Request Administrative Review, 79 FR 6159 (Feb.
3, 2014).
2 See the February 6, 21, 26, 27, and 28, 2014
letters requesting an administrative review from the
petitioners, ASPA, and individual Thai shrimp
companies.
3 See Certain Frozen Warmwater Shrimp from
India and Thailand; Notice of Initiation of
Continued
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[Notices]
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[FR Doc No: 2014-16532]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Bureau of the Census
[Docket Number 140626541-4541-01]
Establishment of the 2020 Census Redistricting Data Program
AGENCY: Bureau of the Census, Department of Commerce
ACTION: Notice of Program.
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SUMMARY: This notice announces and seeks comments on the establishment
of the 2020 Census Redistricting Data Program. Required by law, the
program provides states the opportunity to specify the small geographic
areas for which they wish to receive 2020 decennial population totals
for the purpose of reapportionment and redistricting.
DATES: Comments on this notice are due by September 5, 2014. The
deadline for states to notify the Bureau of the Census (Census Bureau)
that they wish to participate in Phase 1, the Block Boundary Suggestion
Project, is August 1, 2015.
ADDRESSES: Please direct all written comments on this notice to the
Director, U.S. Census Bureau, 4600 Silver Hill Road, Room 8H-002,
Washington DC 20233.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Catherine C. McCully, Chief, Census
Redistricting Data Office, U.S. Census Bureau, Room 8H-019, Washington
DC 20233, telephone (301) 763-4039.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under the provisions of Title 13, Section
141(c) of the United States Code (U.S.C.), the Secretary of Commerce
(Secretary) is required to provide the ``officers or public bodies
having initial responsibility for the legislative apportionment or
districting of each state . . .'' with the opportunity to specify
geographic areas (e.g., voting districts) for which they wish to
receive decennial census population counts for the purpose of
reapportionment or redistricting.
By April 1 of the year following the decennial census, the
Secretary is required to furnish the state officials or their designees
with population counts for American Indian areas, counties, cities,
census blocks, and state-specified congressional, legislative
districts, and voting districts.
In accordance with the provisions of 13 U.S.C. 141(c), the Director
of the Census Bureau, on behalf of the Secretary of Commerce, announces
the establishment of the 2020 Census Redistricting Data Program. The
Census Bureau will issue an invitation to the officers or public bodies
having initial responsibility for legislative reapportionment and
redistricting this fall through the Census Redistricting Data Office
inviting states to identify a non-partisan liaison that will work
directly with the Census Bureau on the 2020 Census Redistricting Data
Program. Once these liaisons are established, the Census Bureau will
coordinate communications involving the commencement of the program.
Since the 1990 Census, participation in both the Census
Redistricting Data Program's Block Boundary Suggestion Project and
Voting District Project (2020 Redistricting Data Program Phases 1 and
2) under 13 U.S.C. is voluntary on the part of each state. However, if
states choose not to participate in Phase 1 and Phase 2, the Census
Bureau cannot ensure that the decennial census 2020 tabulation
geography will support the redistricting needs of their state.
Phase 1: Block Boundary Suggestion Project (BBSP)
Beginning in the late summer of 2014, the Census Bureau will
correspond with the legislative leadership and executive officer of
each state to establish a 2020 Census Redistricting Data Program
liaison. The Census Bureau will formally announce through a subsequent
Federal Register Notice the commencement of Phase 1, the Block Boundary
Suggestion Project (BBSP). The purpose of the BBSP is to afford states
the opportunity to identify non-standard features often used as
electoral boundaries (such as a powerline or stream, rather than a
street centerline which might divide voters into two districts) as
census block boundaries. The BBSP option affords the state liaison the
opportunity to provide suggestions for 2020 census tabulation block
boundaries resulting in more meaningful block data for the state.
Liaisons are able to work with local officials including county
election officers and others to ensure local geography is represented
in the 2020 tabulation block inventory. In addition, the liaison, on
behalf of the state, will make suggestions for features not desirable
as census tabulation blocks. By identifying undesirable features, the
liaison may assist the Bureau in reducing the overall number of census
tabulation blocks from the 2010 inventory. Beginning in late fall of
2015, states that choose to participate in Phase 1 will begin receiving
guidelines and training for providing their suggestions for the 2020
census tabulation blocks as well as their suggestions for exclusion of
line segments for consideration in the
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final 2020 census tabulation block inventory. For the first time,
states will have the opportunity to review legal limits, such as
incorporated places, American Indian areas and county boundaries, as
reported through the Boundary and Annexation Survey (BAS). The
alignment of the BAS with the BBSP will facilitate the cooperation
between state and local government. A verification phase will occur in
early 2017.
Phase 2: Voting District Project (VTDP)
The Census Bureau will formally announce through a subsequent
Federal Register Notice the commencement of Phase 2, the Voting
District Project. The VTDP will provide the state liaison, on behalf of
the state, to submit the voting districts (a generic term used to
represent areas that administer elections such as precincts, election
districts, wards, etc.) to the Census Bureau for representation in the
2020 Census P.L. 94-171 products (data and geographic products).
Beginning in late 2017, states that choose to participate in Phase 2,
the Voting District Project will receive on a flow basis, geographic
products that afford them the opportunity to update the Voting
Districts (VTDs) for inclusion in the 2020 Census tabulation geography.
State liaisons will continue to align their effort with updates from
state and local government officials participating in the BAS. The VTD/
BAS update and alignment will continue through spring of 2018. A
verification phase will occur in early 2019 for states that
participated in Phase 2.
Phase 3: Delivery of the Decennial Census 2020 Redistricting Data
By April 1, 2021, the Director of the Census Bureau will, in
accordance with 13 U.S.C. 141(c), furnish the Governor and state
legislative leaders, both the majority and minority, with 2020 Census
population counts for standard census tabulation areas (e.g., state,
Congressional district, state legislative district, American Indian
area, county, city, town, census tract, census block group, and census
block) regardless of a state's participation in Phase 1 or 2. The
Director of the Census Bureau will provide 2020 population counts for
those states participating in Phase 2, for both the standard tabulation
areas and for voting districts. For each state, this delivery will
occur prior to general release and no later than April 1, 2021.
Phase 4: Collection of Post-Census 2010 Redistricting Data Plans
Beginning in 2021, the Census Bureau will solicit from each state
the newly drawn legislative and Congressional district plans and
prepares appropriate data sets based on the new districts. This effort
will occur every two years in advance of the 2030 Census in order to
update these boundaries with new or changed plans. A verification phase
will occur with each update.
Phase 5: Review of the 2020 Census Redistricting Data Program and
Recommendations for the 2030 Redistricting Data Program
As the final phase of the 2020 Census Redistricting Data Program,
the Census Bureau will work with the states to conduct a thorough
review of the program. The intent of this review, and the final report
that results, is to provide guidance to the Secretary of Commerce and
the Census Bureau Director in planning the 2030 Census Redistricting
Data Program.
Please address questions concerning any aspect of the 2020 Census
Redistricting Data Program to the person identified in the contact
section of this notice.
Dated: July 9, 2014.
John H. Thompson,
Director, Bureau of the Census.
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