4 Feb
2009
4 Feb
'09
6:19 p.m.
Hi Nancy --
I can think of 3 options as representing the transportation data
community:
1. CTPP Oversight Board
You might want to contact Mary Lynn Tischer.
Mary.tischer(a)vdot.virginia.gov
She is now the chair of the AASHTO CTPP Oversight Board. (Other members
of the CTPP Oversight Board are listed in the CTPP Status Report May
2008 issue http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/ctpp/sr0508.htm Note: Kent Cooper
got a new job at Nevada DOT which is why he is not the chair of this
board).
While the CTPP is a cooperative project with AASHTO, USDOT and the
Census Bureau, and the TRB data committees, AASHTO coordinated the funds
from the State DOTs and MPOs for this round of CTPP using ACS records.
2. AASHTO SCOP (standing committee on planning) Jonette Kreideweis
Jonette.kreideweis(a)dot.state.mn.us
Jonette has been doing a LOT Of work on the CTPP, in terms of putting
the Table list together for re-submission to the Census Bureau. Jonette
chairs the AASHTO SCOP Census Data Workgroup.
3. For AMPO, you might want to contact Delania Hardy dhardy(a)ampo.org
Elaine Murakami
FHWA Office of Planning
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Can we as a data user community get something put together to share with
whoever the new census director will be. Maybe if we have something
ready we can get it into their hands earlier. If I draft some sort of
letter, is there a data community that has one voice that we can send it
from? AMPO, NARC, NADO, etc?
Nancy
Nancy Reger, AICP
Assistant Director, Transportation
Mid Ohio Regional Planning Commission
111 Liberty St; Ste 100 / Cols OH 43215
(p) 614-233-4154 / (e) nreger(a)morpc.org
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All good ideas but keep in mind but one place to keep our eyes on is who
will become the Census Bureau director. Generally, it is a good idea
that the top leadership understand the utility of their data programs
and efforts. But for me what is frustrating is the general affect the
disclosure rules are having on restricting and even rendering much of
the data collected useless. It seems like every time we turn around we
are loosing something else to disclosure rules that are not really
proven to be protecting anything, but that is another issue.
Knowing that we have to live with these rules the AASHTO CTPP Oversight
Board and others have a research project in the NCHRP (National
Cooperative Highway Research Program) hopper to 1st, answer the question
if we can use synthetic data and 2nd, to develop an appropriate
methodology for developing a data set to satisfy the transportation
planning needs of the states and MPOs while meeting the Census Bureau's
confidentiality concerns. The work is vital to being able to get small
area data for the CTPP 5-year ACS tabulations. The problem statement is
at http://trbcensus.com/notes/NCHRP_CTPP_Data_Proposal_Oct2008.pdf
While the problem statement has gotten good support and backing it still
needs to be voted on by all the states. The selection process and
balloting is going on right now. There are about 130 projects in the
hopper and maybe 10 or 20 new ones get selected each year. Attached is
the problem statement along with a longer explanation of the balloting
process and how we can get involved.
Angie Byrne wrote:
One idea might be to let your state FHWA coordinators
or someone who
can ask Senator Gregg if he is interested in being part of this
listserve. If so, we could precede to inform from that direction.
Angie Byrne
Transportation Planner
Bi-State Metropolitan Planning Organization Western Arkansas Planning
and Development District
1109 S. 16th St., P.O. Box 2067
Fort Smith, Arkansas 72902
(479) 785-2651
abyrne(a)wapdd.org <mailto:abyrne@wapdd.org> www.bistatempo.org
<http://www.bistatempo.org>
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Should we do anything--- ie say, welcome to Director Gregg and tell
him how we use
this data in the econ devt and transportation world as a
community or just go solo?
Nancy Reger, AICP
Assistant Director, Transportation
Mid Ohio Regional Planning Commission
111 Liberty St; Ste 100 / Cols OH 43215
(p) 614-233-4154 / (e) nreger(a)morpc.org
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PRESIDENT SELECTS SEN. GREGG FOR COMMERCE SECRETARY; SENATE CONSIDERS
$1B FOR CENSUS IN STIMULUS BILL
Plus: House Passes Stimulus Funds for Census
President Obama has selected Senator Judd Gregg, Republican of New
Hampshire, to be his Commerce Secretary. The post would give Sen.
Gregg authority over the Census Bureau and upcoming decennial census.
The Census Bureau is part of the Commerce Department's Economics and
Statistics Administration (ESA), which also houses the Bureau of
Economic Analysis (BEA).
Sen. Gregg, a three-term senator, former representative, and former
New Hampshire governor, is the ranking Republican on the Senate Budget
Committee and a member of the Appropriations Committee. He is a
member and former chairman of the Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice,
and Science (formerly Commerce, Justice, and State), which funds the
Census Bureau. The biography posted on his official web site
highlights his interest in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration (NOAA), another large Commerce Department agency.
Sen. Gregg chaired the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce,
Justice, and State during the 2000 census. In 1999, he questioned the
Administration's request for additional census funding for fiscal year
2000; the Census Bureau had asked for an extra $1.7 billion after a
Supreme Court decision forced it to redesign non-response follow-up
operations. The House of Representatives had approved the full $4.5
billion for the census year, while the Senate allocated the $2.8
billion the Administration had sought before the Court ruling in a
case challenging the use of sampling to compile census population
counts used for congressional apportionment. Sen. Gregg especially
questioned the House's proposal to designate all census funding for
2000 as
"emergency"
spending, which would remove the allocation from under
tight budget
caps. The impasse over census funding helped delay passage of final
spending bills for 2000; Congress eventually approved the full funding
request, designating the entire amount as an "emergency."
The Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation will
hold confirmation hearings for Sen. Gregg, while the Homeland Security
and Governmental Affairs Committee will be responsible for confirming
a Census director. President Obama has not yet nominated an Under
Secretary for Economic Affairs, who oversees the ESA, or Census Bureau
director; both positions require Senate confirmation.
Economic stimulus bill includes extra funds for 2010 census: On
January 28, by a vote of 244 - 188, the U.S. House of Representatives
approved an $819 economic stimulus bill (H.R. 1) that includes $1
billion in additional funds for the 2010 census. No Republican
lawmakers supported the bill.
The stimulus package requested by President Obama is also working its
way through the U.S. Senate. Last week, the Committee on
Appropriations approved its own version of the economic recovery
package (S. 336), which includes $1 billion for the 2010 census. The
funds would be available until September 30, 2010. The Census Bureau
is required by law to report state population totals to the President
by December 31, 2010, and detailed populations counts to the states
for redistricting purposes by April 1, 2011.
Committee report language (S. Rept. 111-3) directs the Census Bureau
to use $780 million to hire more census takers "to count underserved
communities"; $120 million to expand the Partnership Program, "with
specific focus being placed on hard to reach populations"; and $100
million to increase outreach and promotion "to minority communities."
Appropriators suggested that the Census Bureau hire additional staff
who are experienced with partnership programs and are trusted
community leaders who can convey the importance of participating in
the census to "hard to reach" populations.
The full Senate is considering the package this week. Amendments to
strip or reduce some of the funding from the bill, including the
proposed $1 billion for the 2010 census, are possible.
The House version of the "American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of
2009" does not lay out as many specific dollar amounts for spending
the additional money, instead saying more broadly that the Census
Bureau should "hire additional personnel, provide required training,
increase targeted media purchases, and improve management of other
operational and programmatic risks to ensure a successful decennial."
The Census Bureau should use $150 million for "expanded communications
and outreach programs to minimize undercounting of minority groups,"
according to the House Appropriations committee.
An analysis of the economic stimulus package by Robert Santos of the
Urban Institute, a Washington, DC think-tank, concludes that the
proposed spending for the 2010 census "would provide an infusion of
new jobs, better community participation and a more accurate census."
Dr.
Santos calls the census "a shovel-ready
infrastructure project," a
reference to one of President Obama's criteria for including projects
in a stimulus package. The analysis is available on-line at
http://www.urban.org/issues/recovery.cfm#santos.
Senator urges quick appointment of Census Director: Senator Thomas
Carper (D-DE), chairman of the Senate Subcommittee on Federal
Financial Management, Government Information, Federal Services, and
International Security (Committee on Homeland Security and
Governmental Affairs), sent a letter to President Obama on January 28,
urging him to "move quickly to fill the top leadership at the Commerce
Department and the Census Bureau with individuals with the knowledge
and the management skills necessary to get the ongoing preparations
for the 2010 Census back on track for good." The chairman said that
"serious challenges in managing key information technology activities"
and reduced spending on advertising and outreach have led the
Government Accountability Office
(GAO) to designate the 2010 census as a "high risk" federal program.
Sen. Carper called on the President to make the "overall success [of
the census] a top priority of your Administration."
The Federal Financial Management panel has tentatively scheduled an
oversight hearing for February 25 to review the status of planning for
the 2010 census.
Census News Briefs are prepared by Terri Ann Lowenthal, a consultant
to the nonpartisan Census Project, organized by the Communications
Consortium Media Center in Washington, DC. Please direct questions
about the information in this News Brief to Ms. Lowenthal at
TerriAnn2K(a)aol.com. Please feel free to circulate this document to
other interested individuals and organizations. Previous Census News
Briefs are posted at www.thecensusproject.org
--
Ed Christopher
Resource Center Planning Team
Federal Highway Administration
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