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A House committee advanced to the floor a bill to speed interstate traffic through central Utah. HB406, sponsored by Rep. Jim Dunnigan, R-Taylorsville, would let the Utah Department of Transportation raise the speed limit along Interstate 15 from Nephi to Cedar City. Linda Toy Hull, of the Utah Department of Transportation, estimated that the speed limit might be increased to 80 mph, but that would depend on the outcome of a study the bill requires the department to conduct. On the Senate side, lawmakers have voted to allow off-highway vehicles on two-way streets in small towns. SB181, awaiting House action, authorizes the dirt-trail vehicles in towns with fewer than 5,000 residents, except where local officials opt out. - Brandon Loomis
