13 U.S.C. § 16 — Address information reviewed by States and local governments

(a) — To help make sure censuses and surveys under this title are accurate, the Secretary must do three things. (1) Publish standards spelling out the content and structure that states and local governments should use when submitting address information for the Bureau's national address list. (2)(A) Create and publish a schedule for when the Bureau will receive, review, and respond to these submissions before the decennial census date; (B) make sure the Bureau's response to each submission explains its determinations and the reasons behind them. (3) Follow the review process set up under section 3 of the Census Address List Improvement Act of 1994 for handling these responses. (b) — (1) The Secretary must (A) give officials that a local government designates as "census liaisons" access to the Bureau's census address information, so they can check whether it's accurate; and (B) along with that access, should explain the liaison's duties and obligations under this title. (2) That access is limited: a liaison can only see address information for their own local government's area, or for a neighboring one. (3) The Bureau should respond to each recommendation a liaison makes about address accuracy, including explaining its determination and reasoning. (4) If a local government sits inside, and isn't independent of, a larger enclosing government, the liaison is designated by the larger, enclosing government. (5) A liaison cannot use this access for anything other than checking address accuracy. (c) — For this section, "local unit of general purpose government" means what section 184(1) of this title says it means. "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.