{"abstract":"This Notice announces OMB's adoption of Standards for Defining Metropolitan and Micropolitan Statistical Areas. These new standards replace and supersede the 1990 standards for defining Metropolitan Areas. In arriving at its decision, OMB accepted many of the recommendations of the interagency Metropolitan Area Standards Review Committee (the Review Committee) as published in the August 22, 2000 Federal Register. In response to public comment, and with the further advice of the Review Committee, OMB modified the recommended criteria for titling Combined Statistical Areas, identifying Principal Cities, and determining Metropolitan Divisions. The new standards appear at the end of this Notice in Section D. The Supplementary Information in this Notice provides background information on the standards (Section A), a brief synopsis of the public comments OMB received in response to the August 22, 2000 Federal Register notice (Section B), and OMB's decisions on the final recommendations of the Review Committee (Section C). The adoption of these new standards will not affect the availability of Federal data for geographic areas such as states, counties, county subdivisions, and municipalities. For the near term, the Census Bureau will tabulate and publish data from Census 2000 for all Metropolitan Areas in existence at the time of the census (that is, those areas defined as of April 1, 2000).","action":"Notice of decision.","agencies":[{"raw_name":"OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET","name":"Management and Budget Office","id":280,"url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/agencies/management-and-budget-office","json_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/api/v1/agencies/280","parent_id":null,"slug":"management-and-budget-office"}],"body_html_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/full_text/html/2000/12/27/00-32997.html","cfr_references":[],"citation":"65 FR 82228","comment_url":null,"comments_close_on":null,"correction_of":null,"corrections":[],"dates":"This Notice is effective immediately. OMB plans to announce definitions of areas based on the new standards and Census 2000 data in 2003. Federal agencies should begin to use the new area definitions to tabulate and publish statistics when the definitions are announced.","disposition_notes":null,"docket_ids":[],"dockets":[],"document_number":"00-32997","effective_on":null,"end_page":82238,"executive_order_notes":null,"executive_order_number":null,"full_text_xml_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/full_text/xml/2000/12/27/00-32997.xml","html_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2000/12/27/00-32997/standards-for-defining-metropolitan-and-micropolitan-statistical-areas","images":{},"images_metadata":{},"json_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/api/v1/documents/00-32997?publication_date=2000-12-27","mods_url":"https://www.govinfo.gov/metadata/granule/FR-2000-12-27/00-32997/mods.xml","not_received_for_publication":null,"page_length":11,"page_views":{"count":3439,"last_updated":"2026-08-26 18:15:08 -0400"},"pdf_url":"https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2000-12-27/pdf/00-32997.pdf","presidential_document_number":null,"proclamation_number":null,"public_inspection_pdf_url":null,"publication_date":"2000-12-27","raw_text_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/full_text/text/2000/12/27/00-32997.txt","regulation_id_number_info":{},"regulation_id_numbers":[],"regulations_dot_gov_info":{},"regulations_dot_gov_url":null,"significant":null,"signing_date":null,"start_page":82228,"subtype":null,"title":"Standards for Defining Metropolitan and Micropolitan Statistical Areas","toc_doc":"Metropolitan and micropolitan statistical areas; standards for defining","toc_subject":null,"topics":[],"type":"Notice","volume":65}