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 PUBLIC LAW 103-430—OCT. 31, 1994 108 STAT. 4393 Public Law 103-430 103d Congress An Act To amend title 13, United States Code, to improve the accuracy of census address lists, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the "Census Address List Improvement Act of 1994". SEC. 2. ADDRESS INFORMATION REVIEWED BY LOCAL GOVERN- MENTS. (a) IN GENERAL. —Chapter 1 of title 13, United States Code, is amended by adding sifter section 15 the following new section: "§16. Address information reviewed by States and local governments "(a) The Secretary, to assist efforts to ensure the accuracy of censuses and surveys under this title, shall— "(1) publish standards defining the content and structure of address information which States and local imits of general purpose government may submit to the Secretary to be used in developing a national address Ust; "(2)(A) develop and publish a timetable for the Bureau to receive, review, and respond to submissions of information under paragraph (1) before the decennial census date; and "(B) provide for a response by the Bureau with respect to such submissions in which the Biu^au specifies its determinations regarding such information and the reasons for such determinations; andf "(3) be subject to the review process developed under section 3 of the Census Address List Improvement Act of 1994 relating to responses piu*suant to paragraph (2). "(b)(1) The Secretary— "(A) shall provide officials who are designated as census haisons by a local unit of general purpose government with access to census address information for the purpose of verifying the accuracy of the address information of the Bureau for census and survey purposes; and "(B) together with such access, should provide an explanation of duties and obligations under this title. "(2) Access under paragraph (1) shall be hmited to address information concerning addresses within the local unit of general purpose government represented by the census haison or an adjacent localunit of general purpose government. Oct. 31, 1994 [H.R. 5084] Census Address List Improvement Act of 1994. 13 USC 1 note. Publication.

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