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Show UD0T hearings on 00 Etipii speed limit not based on appropriate safety studies by the National Nation-al Highway Traffic Safety A dministration and the Utah Department of Transportation. Transporta-tion. All persons interested in the 55 miles per hour speed limit are encouraged to attend at-tend and participate in one of the three hearings. The Utah Transportation Commission will hold three publichearings in December to receive comment on the proposed adoption of a 55 miles per hour speed limit. The limit would apply on all highways except those that are posted at a slower speed. The hearings will be held in St. George on Tuesday, December 13, in the Dixie High School auditorium 350 East, 700 South; in Salt Lake C ity on Thursday, December 15, in the State Office Building Build-ing auditorium; and in Nephi on Tuesday, December 20, in the Juab HighSchool auditorium, auditor-ium, 146 North Main. All hearings will begin at 7:00 p.m. If adopted, the 55 miles per hour speed limit would remain re-main in effect until am ended, modified or repealed by the Utah Transportation Commission Com-mission or by the Legislature Legisla-ture of the State of Utah. The proposed 55 miles per hour speed limit would become be-come a permanent rule, under un-der the Utah Administrative Rulemaking Act, and would replace an emergency 55 miles per hour speed limit rule that was passed by the Transportation Commission on August 26, 1977. The Transportation Commission Com-mission first adopted the 55 miles per hour speed limit on January 25,1974, in response re-sponse to Congressional passage of the Emergency Highway Energy Conservation Conserva-tion Act. That resolution was due to expire June 30, 1975, therefore, the Commission passed another 55 miles per hour resolution on May 23, 1 975, with no expiration date. However, in January of this year, the Utah Supreme Court ruled that that resolution was |