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Show By Congressman Hansen Pean ut restriction lift urged southern fanners to maintain the ban, efforts to lift import restric tions must be carried forward," Hansen said. WASHINGTON. D.C. Over concerns that peanut butter is no longer a common item on school lunch menus in the state, Utah Congressman Con-gressman Jim Hansen is urging President Bush to lift import restrictions restric-tions on peanuts. i Drought conditions and severe import restrictions have caused ! peanut prices to more than double, I Hansen maintains. He said this has caused the U.S. Department of Agriculture to remove protein-rich cholesterol -free peanut butter from children's school lunches. 'Peanut butter, which used to be one of the staples of school lunches in Utah, has all but disappeared from our children's lunch trays," Hansen warned. Hansen has written a letter to the President urging him to lift restrictions restric-tions on importing peanuts, which he claims will ease the peanut shortage. shor-tage. Hansen said it is ironic that it's okay to import foreign cars but not peanuts. F The International Trade Commission Com-mission has also recommended the ban on peanut importation be lifted. Substantial pressure has been placed plac-ed on the administration to lift the ban. "Contrary to the demands of |