With a federal court deadline just hours away, a few minority groups and Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott have agreed to a compromise set of interim redistricting maps for the 2012 election that would create Hispanic-opportunity districts in two of the state's four new congressional districts.

"Even though these proposed interim maps aren't fully supported by all interest groups, modifications have been incorporated based on requests made by all parties," Abbott said in a statement. "Today's maps should allow the court to finalize the interim redistricting maps in time to have elections in April."

Abbott's office said the deal had been worked out with the Latino Redistricting Task Force, which includes the Mexican American Legislative Caucus, League of United Latin American Citizens, and Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund. However a key LULAC lawyer denied that any deal was in the works.

"There will not be an agreement ... There is no agreement," said Luis Vera, an attorney for LULAC.

He said LULAC, the NAACP and a coalition of North Texas Democrats would make that official in a filing they would submit in the San Antonio court later Monday.

The proposed compromise, put together by U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Laredo, likely would force U.S. Rep Lloyd Doggett back into a Hispanic-dominated district that runs from Austin to San Antonio, along Interstate 35. It also transforms a Fort Worth-area district into a coalition district that probably would elect an African American into a district dominated by Latinos.

Additionally, the deal would undo many of the changes the Republican-dominated Legislature made to Blake Farenthold and Quico Canseco's South Texas congressional districts to make it easier for them to win reelection.