§16 Address Information Reviewed by States and Local Governments

Summary

Require the Secretary to set clear rules for what address data should include and how it should be organized so States and local governments can send that data to help build a national address list. The Secretary must publish a schedule for the Census Bureau to receive, review, and answer those submissions before the decennial census date, and the Bureau must explain its decisions and reasons. Those Bureau answers are subject to the review process in section 3 of the Census Address List Improvement Act of 1994. Give people named as census liaisons by local governments access to the Bureau’s address data so they can check its accuracy, and explain the liaisons’ duties and obligations under this title. Access is limited to addresses inside the liaison’s local area or adjacent areas. The Bureau should reply to each liaison recommendation with its decision and reasons. If a local unit sits inside another and is not independent, the inner unit names the liaison. Liaisons may only use the data to check addresses. Definitions: local unit of general purpose government — see section 184(1) of Title 13; State — includes the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the Northern Mariana Islands, American Samoa, Guam, the Virgin Islands, and any other U.S. territory or possession.