Since Ed Christopher is on vacation, he asked me to pass this along to the Field Planners list.

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From: Williams, Ben (FHWA)

Sent: Friday, March 23, 2012 12:52 PM

Subject: Census Urban Info

I was talking to Chris Henrie of the Census Geography Division today.  On Monday, March 26 they are going to have press releases about the new urbanized area numbers. The Federal Register will be out on Tuesday March 27. The urban  boundary files will be posted Monday on the urban page, http://www.census.gov/geo/www/ua/2010urbanruralclass.html  , new TIGER shapefiles on the TIGER pages http://www.census.gov/geo/www/tiger/tgrshp2010/release_schedule.html .

Ben Williams

Federal Highway Administration

Resource Center

Planning Technical Service Team

61 Forsyth St. SW

Suite 17T26

Atlanta, Georgia 30303-3104

ben.williams@dot.gov

404-562-3671

cell 404-895-6211