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newrecordconfirmed Roads: residents raised Highway 29 truck traffic; Orangeville adds speed signs, citing mine and Valar traffic
2026-08-13 · loc-009 · Orangeville City Council, Emery County Commission, Utah Highway Patrol, Valar Atomics

At Emery County's 7 April 2026 hearing on the land sale, residents raised truck traffic along Highway 29, and the state lab director told the hearing that the land was zoned as an industrial park for exactly this kind of expansion (ETV, 9 April). Earlier, on 19 February 2026, an Orangeville councilman asked for opinions on whether the city wants Valar to haul its 'nuclear parts' through town or to ask that they go around on the highway (minutes). On 7 July 2026 Emery County approved a memorandum of understanding with Orangeville for three speed-limit signs, contingent on partnerships and funding (ETV, 8 July), and on 13 August the Orangeville council approved its MOU with the county and the Utah Highway Patrol (minutes), city officials saying the signs had become more urgent with increased traffic from mining and Valar (ETV, 20 Aug). The council also noted coal trucks from the Fossil Rock mine, now in production, on Coal Haul Road, the road that serves the lab. No traffic study for Valar's site or the planned expansion was found in any record read.

In plain termsMore trucks are using the roads into Orangeville, from the coal mine and from Valar's construction, and residents raised truck traffic at the land-sale hearing. Local governments are responding with speed-limit signs, and a council member has asked how reactor parts should be routed. No one has published a traffic study for Valar's growth.
verified 2026-09-29: Re-read ETV 9 April, 8 July, 20 Aug: holds. Removed a wrong cross-reference (gov-023 concerns the Inland Port, not the signs), 'reopened' mine (not in the sources) and the lab director 'answering' traffic (he spoke of zoning). Added Orangeville minutes for 19 Feb and 13 Aug; upgraded to confirmed on those primary records.

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