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• Mr. John K. Tanner i~lashington, D.C. 20530 April 10, 1980 Page 3 in favor of this proposal. This districting-plan is based on local censuses and will be revised as soon as practicable following the availability of demographic data from the April 1, 1980, federal census. Such revisions will, of course, be submitted for Justice Department- preclearance. (4) The consolidation of the cities will affect voting, in that the population of the City of La Porte will be increased twenty-three per cent (230) by the addition of the territory of the City of Lomax. (5) The change affecting voting has not yet been enforced or administered. (6) i•Jith respect to consolidation and redistricting, the following ' supporting materials are provided: (a) This consolidation has been brought about by a desire of the populace to efficiently manage their municipal gov- ernment. Various factors have contributed to this. The City of Lomax had experienced difficulty in providing a good grade of streets in many areas of its city, and was also faced with the necessity of building a sewage treat- ment plant, which would have been prohibitively costly to its tax payers. .The City of La Porte is well along in a program to build a new sewage treatment plant which will be more than adequate for the addition of Lomax. Also, the residents of the two cities function for many purposes as though they were one city. They attend the same schools, shop in the same stores, and generally consider themselves to be from the same area. (b) It is anticipated that this consolidation will provide a more effective and more efficient city government for the area. (c) There has been no litigation concerning the change af- fecting voting or related prior voting practices, and none is pending. (d) A list of all other changes which have been submitted under Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act was provided in the City of La Porte submission of date August 9, 1979. Sub- missions since that time have concerned the charter revision of the City of La Porte, and were submitted on August 9, 1979, September 28, 1979, October 26, 1979, November 1, 1979, and i~iarch 5, 1980. (See previous City of La Porte files DJ 166-012-3, C5780-5784-C7374, in- corporated by reference herein and made a part Hereof).