The Census Advisory Committee on the American Indian and Alaska Native Populations; Public Meeting

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Bureau of the Census

The Census Advisory Committee on the American Indian and Alaska

Native Populations; Public Meeting

Pursuant to the Federal Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 92-463 as

amended by P.L. 94-409, P.L. 96-523, and P.L. 97-375), we are giving

notice of a meeting of the Census Advisory Committee on the American

Indian and Alaska Native Populations. The meeting will convene on May

21, 1997 at the Bureau of the Census, Francis Amasa Walker Conference

Center, Federal Building 3, Suitland, Maryland 20746.

The Committee is composed of nine members appointed by the

Secretary of Commerce. The Committee provides an organized and

continuing channel of communication between the communities they

represent and the Bureau of the Census on its efforts to reduce the

differential in the population totals from Census 2000 and on ways that

decennial census data can be disseminated to maximize their usefulness

to these communities and other users.

The Committee will draw on past experience with the 1990 census

process and procedures, results of evaluations and research studies,

and the expertise and insight of its members to provide advice and

recommendations during the research and development, design, planning,

and implementation phases of Census 2000.

The agenda for the meeting on May 21 that will begin at 12:00 noon

and adjourn at 4:45 p.m. is as follows: (1) discussion of the

enumeration plans for the American Indian and Alaska Native tribal and

village populations and (2) development of recommendations.

The meeting is open to the public, and a brief period is set aside

on May 21 during the closing session for public comment and questions.

Individuals with extensive questions or statements must submit them in

writing to the Census Bureau Committee Liaison Officer, Ms. Maxine

Anderson-Brown, Room 3039, Federal Building 3, Washington, DC 20233, at

least three days before the meeting.

This 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.

Individuals wishing additional information regarding this meeting

or who wish to submit written statements may contact the Committee

Liaison

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Officer on (301) 457-2308, TDD (301) 457-2540.

Dated: April 29, 1997.

Martha Farnsworth Riche,

Director, Bureau of the Census.

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