Ny, , Castlegar News November 13, 1988 Robson pool needs major renovations By CasNews Staff The Robson Recreation Society will hold a public meeting later this month to determine support within the community for major renovations to the Robson pool. Dennis La Hue, a member of the society's pool committee formed to coordinate fundraising, says the pool renovations should cost about $20,000. The society is hoping to raise $13,000 and get a government grant of around $7,500 to cover the costs. “It needs a completely new chlor ination and filtration sys tem,” La Hue told the Castlegar News in an interview. As well, it will system need a new water system and septic system”. La Hue says the health depart ment closed the pool last August be cause of the chlorination problem and renovations need to be done before the pool cah re-open: “We got shut down two weeks early,” La Hue explained. He noted that the society raised $12,000 to upgrade the pool in 1969 so “we think $13,000 in 1988 shouldn't be as hard.” The public meeting at 7 p.m. Noy. 24 in the Robson Hall will help the society gauge the level of support for the pool. “If we only get 10 to 15 people out to the meeting it means they don’t want a pool,” La Hue said. He noted the pool was well used last summer with 88 youngsters registered in swim programs and 62 members in the Robson River Otters Swim Club, which is based out of the Robson pool Couple saved by smoke detector By CasNews Staff Castlegar fire chief Bob Mann credits smoke detectors for saving the lives of two north Castlegar residents early Saturday morning. Two occupants of a trailer on the 300-block of 3rd Avenue, who Mann declined to identify, were awakened by their smoke detector at 5:12 a.m when the kitchen stove caught fire. The two fled to neighbors and called the fire department, said Mann. Realizing they had a fire ex tinguisher in the home, the man re: turned and extinguished the fire burning on the kitchen stove. By the time the fire department arrived the fire was out and there “very little damage” to the kit chen. “If it hadn't been for the smoke alarm, they probably wouldn't be here,” Mann told the Castlegar News. “The smoke alarm saves lives and homes.” 7 Cause of the fire was apparently Our Action Ad Phone Number is 365-2212 the stove, which had been left on, Mann reported. RCMP and the Castlegar Fire de- partment responded to a house fire on Highway 3 west of Castlegar Wednesday afternoon. Castlegar RCMP report the occu pants of the house, Mr. and Mrs. William Sinclair, were treated for smoke inhalation and shock following the blaze, which is believed to have been caused by a blanket left close to or touching a portable heater which had been left running. The fire was contained to the living room. No foul play is suspected and an estimated of damage was not avail- able. Police file Castlegar RCMP are investigating a theft from the salvage yard area at Westar Timber last week. Two oxy. gen tanks, four acetylene tanks and various torches, gauges and hoses are reported missing. The total value is in excess of $1,000. — AIR CONDITIONED — WESTAR & COMINCO VOUCHERS ACCEPTED D-sar-D DINING LOUNGE OPEN 4P.M. DAILY Located | Mile South of Weigh Scale in Ootischenia — LICENCED DINING ROOM — RESERVATIONS FOR PRIVATE PARTIES 365-3294 _—— oS SPAGHETTI & MEATBALLS Includes Salad and Garlic Toast. Reg. $5.95 S November Special Available Monday to Thursday 365-8155 2 1 EAT.N ONLY BRING A FRIENDI “Tooa Columbia Ave. Castlegar and the growing military budget will also affect the quality of your education Overcrowded Classes? Enrollment Quotas? High Tuition Fees? Want more of the same?? The Federal Government plays a significant role in education funding and policy. Find out where the parties stand on education before you vote!!! ilitary budget will also affect the quality of your education See your local student association for more information or call the Canadian Federation of Students’ Pacific Office at 877-1839 childcare, free trade, the new 8-16% federal sales tax, cuts in research funding, shrinking summer employment programs shrinking summer employment programs, and the growing mi childcare, free trade, the new 8-16 % federal sales tax, cuts in research funding, CANDIDATES’ FORUM . . . Moderator Anne Jones introduces can- didates for the Castlegar aldermanic election at Thursday's all- AIR QUALITY continued trom front page “T've had relatives who have come into the area and say, ‘How can you live in this stink,’ "-Branning added. Incumbent Patti Richards said council is pressing Celgar to make ae ae candidates meeting (from left): Marilyn Mathieson, Doreen Smecher, Patti ichards, Joe Irving, Bob Branning and Dan Shields. CosNews Photo three years left on its variance permit and still hasn't improved the air quality. Joe Irving suggested that Celgar's “10-15-year variance” under which it is making the pollution control im- the air pollution imp and pointed out the company plans to spend $14.3 million in 1989 on mill upgrading. Richards said council met with Celgar management on Wednesday to discuss the mill improvements. “Meetings are going on continu ously with Celgar,” she said, adding later: “They are right on schedule and are being closely watched by the Ministry of Environment.” However, one resident suggested because the pulp company is making millions of dollars a month, it could accelerate its pollution improve- ments. But Richards said the mill can only proceed so quickly with the changes. She also noted that a council dele. gation will be travelling to Victoria this week to meet with various provincial government officials, in cluding those in the Environment Ministry. However, another resident sug gested council cannot be pressing the ministry and Celgar “very effec- tively” because the company has only pr “may not be the an swer.” Dan Shields also pointed to air quality as one of his priorities. “We have to make Castlegar a more attractive place” in which to live and visit, he said, adding later: “We have to get rid of that smell before we have a tourist trade here.” Marilyn Mathieson noted that everyone in Castlegar is concerned about the air quality. Mathieson, who served on council for 1'2 terms before moving to the Lower Main- land, pointed out: “I think our air quality has deteriorated in the three years I have been gone.” She cited her “wish list” for the community, which she said would include generators for Keenleyside dam, a pulp mill expansion, a secon. dary truck bypass and a plea for “greater personal concern for the environment.” She emphasized that council must be cooperative and committed. “Good decisions are needed by all in a non-partisan|manner.” Doreen Smecher said the single Local woman passes away Dr. Belle McGauley, daughter of a pioneer family, passed away in the local hospital Noy. 9. Miss McGauley, along with her family, came to Castlegar in 1913 to join their father who was then captain of the tugboat Elco. After completing high school in Nelson, she attended Normal School in Victoria and subsequently taught . in several school districts in the Kootenays. Her first assignment was at Champion Creek. Schools were scarce at that time and Miss McGauley taught in the front room of one community house while living in another. On weekends Court news In Castlegar provincial court this week, Walter Podmoreff was sen. tenced to six months in jail for refusing to provide a breath sample. * . David McMillan received a 15-day intermittent jail term for theft under $1,000. she rode home and back again on her horse. In later years she remem bered the people in the village with great affection. After a teaching assignment in Dawson Creek she enrolled at UBC where she completed a Bachelor of Arts in 1930. She then returned to Nelson to teach at the junior high In 1985 Miss McGauley taught in Scotland on an exchange program and before returning home travelled in Europe. Consequently, she was in Spain when the civil war broke out. Later she was appointed principal of the Grand Forks combined elem. entary and secondary schools. Shd resigned in 1945 and moved to Los Angeles where she completed her doctorate and resumed teaching there until she retired. Throughout her life Miss Mc Gauley travelled widely but never failed to spend part of each summer vacation with her family in Castle. gar. She is survived by her sister, Hope Whittaker and brothers, Tom, Ed and Bill of Castlegar, Ged of Nelson and Pat of Florida. She was predeceased by her sister Orpha in- 1985 and her brother Ernest in 1988. unl ond Rules of Genealogy. The: + Participants Nov. 15, 7-10 p.m. Postnatal Cla: ths of porenti: Christmas Decorative A: Fee $25. Sp Level 2: Mon., Nov. Spreadsheets Level.1 The World of f-abtaaomnony- Mower wart Mr. Ron bol of the Fede: fon ot ¢ 4 Organisation, "Speeding vp veer yr Genealogy. Little ill be a question and answer period Il learn about the effects of ut choosing the proper music for a variety of $8. Understand how to cope e $5.00 per couple Facilitator ‘Jean Merrit. Class will be at the Health Unit +: Corsage and Wreath, Nov. 23, 7-9 p all materials incloded. Must Prevegister, limited seats ovailoble Classes will be held at Tulips Floral Shop. reodsheets 14-Dec CASTLEGAR CAMPUS 365-7292 ext 261 Bremer, Genea! Societies. Topics cover Known Sources, Laws ic on body and tings. Tuesday, ith the Stress of the first 3-6 mon. Thursday, Nov. 24 19, 6-9 p.m., $90. Pre-requisi most important issue fating council is economic growth. “Economic growth is essential to our community,” she said. Smecher pointed out that the overwhelming support for a new aquatic centre signals a “new enthu- attitude, is time to encourage people and businesses to establish here. Richards suggested maintaining a stable community with slow but steady growth is important, while Irving said council needs to look at short-term problems in the long term. He pointed to the Robson- Castlegar ferry closure and the truck bypass problem, ‘noting perhaps the two could be solved with a new bridge across the Columbia River. Irving also proposed that the Sel- kirk College forestry department be expanded and improved to provide a special focus on regional forestry problems like steep-slope logging, and use of decadent pulp wood. He and Branning both suggested making better use of regional re- sources for secondary manufactur- ing. Branning said businesses involv- ing ‘sash and door, prefabricated housing, coffins and wood boxes could be established locally. Shields said he would like to see more agriculture, perhaps a market garden. “I'm not in favor of government grants for starting new businesses. T've seen too many of them flop,” he said, adding later:' “If they can't make it on their own, then they shouldn't be trying to make it on our money.” High school gets career program By BONNE MORGAN Staff Writer One of the recommendations made by the provincial Royal Commission on Education will become a reality at Stanley Humphries secondary school this spring. The high school is set to implement its career preparation program this year. The program will provide Grade 11 and 12 students with 100 hours of work experience in the community. Students taking the program will also be required to take either six business or six mechanics courses and their work experience will com plement the courses. The Royal Commission on Educa tion recommended steps be taken to ensure students don't leave school early, although it has introduced a “certificate of entitlement” to stu. dents who complete Grade 10. The certificate may be used to obtain further education at post-secondary institutions. The commission specifically men tioned that community work experi. ence programs should be encour aged. The career preparation program may be used as credit towards Selkirk College's Office Administra tion or Mechanical Trades programy- However, the students must me pass a skill mastery test, achieving 80 percent in order to skip part of thei Office Administration program. The college is prepared to let students skip the 20-week “office clerk option” of the Business pro- gram. The student can go directly into clerk typist, secretarial, ac- counting or legal options, provided they've passed the test. Helen McLellan, a Selkirk Bus. iness Program instructor, told the Castlegar school board’s education forum Monday that previously stu- dents didn’t get credit for their high ege, said students who successfully complete the career preparation pro- gram may be exempt from four to six weeks of the trades program. The skills testing for Mechanical students wil! be done at the high school, said Walker. Gordon Shead, principal at Stanley Humphries secondary school, pointed out that the career preparation pro- gram is another incentive for stu- dents to stay in high school. “This is another program identi- fied to them as a package, another incentive to complete high school,” he said at the meeting. Both Walker and McLellan said they prefer high-school graduates to students with a Grade 10 education. They said “maturity” can be a prob- lem with younger students. TUNNEL continued from front page to get to larger communities like Castlegar and Nelson, he said. “They're just disillusioned with the whole political spectrum that’s been promising, promising, promising, -"he said. “For the amount of money that comes out of this area I would feel the government would pay more attention to our arterial route.” But Barrie Pearce, Nelson High- ways District technician, said crews are working 24 hours a day to get that section of road re-opened. “Crews are working around the clock to get the width back in the section,” he said. “We anticipate the road will be open Monday.” ° But Wilson said the “blast and patch” technique of road repair is not good enough for the bluff section. He said the government should commit to a “safe two-lane road no matter what the cost.” “That's a very dangerous piece of road and will continue to be until the s November 13, 1988 Castlegar News a; AS school business education and would start at “square one” in the program. Alan Walker, a Mechanical Trades Programs instructor at Selkirk Coll proper work is done,” he said. “It’s only luck up until now that no one’s had an accident. What does one have to do, wait for a death or something?” % Double $32, Quad $40 Colour Cable TV and Triple $35 Air-Conditioning NEWTON INN * Plenty ot tree over % Meeting Room tor Up to sized Parking 20 7300 King George Hwy. = Restaurant, Lounge and Surrey. . Caneda Pub - Phone (' Centrally located budget hotel with spacious modern rooms only 10 minutes north of US/CANADA border on Hwy 99A. 45 minutes trom downtown Van. couver, 25 minutes to Victoria Ferry and only minutes trom mayor shopping cen. tres (Surrey Place & Guilford) and Cloverdale Race Track Briefly Gunmen attack town BOGOTA (AP) — Grenade-throwing gunmen attacked a gold mining town and surrounding ranches in northern Colombia, killing at least 34 civilians and injuring 31, authorities said Saturday. The state governor and an army general said 200 leftist guerrillas carried out the attack, but a local mayor said it was done by dozens of members of a right-wing death squad. A guerrilla group denied taking part in the attack and also accused right-wing paramilitary groups of the massacre. The gunmen rode into Segovia during a thundefstorm on Friday night and blasted the telephone exchange, city hall, the main park, two bars and a commercial establishment, authorities said. Cosmonauts break record MOSCOW (REUTER) — Two Soviet cosmonauts aboard the space station Mir broke the world's 326-day space endurance record Saturday and are on target to stay up a full year until Dec. 21, Tass said. Mir's commander, Vladimir Titov, 41, has lost 4.4 pounds in weight and co-pilot Musa Manarov, 37, has gained 3.3 pounds, but generally “the functioning of their organisms is within norm,” the official Soviet news agency said. “True there are small changes in the muscle: perimeters and weight. But the changes in the cosmonauts’ state do not exceed the deviations in respective parameters shown by (Yuri) Romanenko.” Romanenko set the previous space endurance record al Mir last December. AIDS test required MOSCOW (AP) — The government has agreements with Britain, Denmark and other countries requiring their citizens to prove themselves free of the AIDS virus in order to enter the Soviet Union, Pravda reported. In its report of an interview with Alexander Kondrusev, deputy health minister, the Communist party daily did not say whether the accords already were.in force or when they would take effect. A spokesman for the Foreign Office in London, speaking anonymously in keeping with British practice, said he was unaware of any agreements, but “the Soviet Union introduced certain regulations for foreigners over a year ago. That's all we know.” The Soviets, who once called the deadly disease a purely foreign problem caused by western sexual decadence, have expressed growing concern about it. Underground nuclear test MOSCOW (REUTER) — The Soviet Uion has carried out an underground nuclear test with a yield of up to 20 kilotons at its range near Semipalatinsk in Kazakhstan, Soviet Centra Asia, Tass news agency said. “The goal of the testing was upgrading military technology,” Tass said, without giving further details. Shuttle launch attempted MOSCOW (REUTER) — The Soviet Union announced Saturday it would make a second attempt on Tuesday to launch its Buran space shuttle on an unmanned maiden flight. fhe official, Tass mews. agency said Buran, which means snowstorm, would blast off from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Soviet Central Asia at 6 a.mi. Moscow time on Tuesday. The first launch attempt, on Oct. 29, was called off with just 51 seconds of the countdown to go after a block carrying the guidance system failed to swing sufficiently clear. The black and white delta-winged craft is to ride into space on the booster rocket Energia. Crank caller arrested TOKYO (AP) — A woman who allegedly made up to 100,000 crank calls to her former husband since 1986 has been arrested near Tokyo, police said. Toyoko Terahashi, 26, allegedly called her former husband at his office, alternately yelling into the phone or saying nothing before hanging up, said Hiroshi Katsutani, a Kawasaki Police Department spokesman. Katsutani said the calls began three months after the couple were divorced in January 1986 and numbered up to 200 a dy The couple married in May 1985. Police said Terahashi’s husband left her and filed for divorce after being subjected to domestic violence. Terahashi then began telephoning the man’s office and homes of more than 20 of his co-workers in an effort to find out where he was living. Horse injures spectators LONDON (AP) — A police horse ran into a crowd of spectators during a parade honoring the new Lord Mayor of London on Saturday, and 10 people were slightly injured, police said. Three people were treated at the scene for shock and seven were taken to St. Bartholemew’s Hospital, where they were treated for minor injuries and released, police said. A police officer momentarily lost control of his horse on Chancery Lane, lined with erowds cheering Sir Christopher Collett as he passed in a horse-drawn gold coach in the middle of the procession. The 661st Lord Mayor of London, Collett received a blessing at St. Paul's Cathedral and was sworn in at the Law Courts for a year's term. U.S. military criticized LA PAZ (AFP) — A leader. of Bolivia's political opposition accused the United States on Saturday of using his country as a military outpost to control South America. Antonio Aranibar, a legislator and president of the United Left party, said in an open letter to the Bolivian government the presence of U.S. military personnel puts Bolivia at risk of becoming a puppet regime of Washington. The United States is using allegations of drug-trafficking, terrorism and subversion as pretexts for creating “a supranational power, linked to foreign capital controlled by the administration of (President Ronald Reagan),” Aranibar said. PLO won't stop fighting ALGIERS (AP) — PLO chairman Yasser Arafat said Saturday that Palestinians won't stop fighting until their flag flies over Jerusalem. The Palestine Liberation Organization chief spoke at the opening of the special session of the Palestine National Council, the PLO's parliament-in-exile. The four-day meeting is to with a of Palestinian independence for the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. Support for Palestinians has increased during the 11-month Arab uprising against Israel's occupation of the territories. More than 300 Palestinians and 11 Israelis have died. lud MOMENT OF SILENCE . . . A local Air Cadet bows his head in remembrance of all the men who died in battle while fighting for Canada's freedom. Numerous wreaths were laid on the cenotaph at Kinsmen Park during the ceremony Friday CosNews photo by Doug Harvey Prescriptions down from By CasNews Staff Pharmacies across the province have been filling fewer prescriptions for senior citizens this year following the provincial government's introduction of dispensing fees last April, says a B.C. Pharmacists’ Society executive. Frank Archer, executive director for the society, said there has been “about a 15-per-cent reduction province-wide” in prescriptions filled for seniors so far this year. However, he said.that while the number of individual prescriptions is down by 15 per cent, only one-third of that is due to seniors not filing for prescriptions. SEniors now are purchasing larger quantities of prescribed drugs at one time to ease the impact of the dispensing fees. Dispensing fees for seniors were introduced in the last provincial budget in March — the policy was implemented in April — and were met with concern from the Pharmacists’ Society and senior citizens across B.C. Before the government changed its policy on prescription drugs, seniors had all the costs — the cost of the drug and the dispensing fee charged by the pharmacy —covered under Pharmacare. Now seniors are required to pay 75 per cent of the dispensing fees charged by the pharmacies for prescrip tions while the government covers the other 25 per cent of the dispending fee and the entire cost of the drug. last year The maximum amount a senior will pay for dispensing fe¢s is $125 a year. The provincial government will cover all the prescription charges for seniors if they spend $125 in dispensing fees before the year is over. It’s pitted:the seniors against the pharmacies,” said pharmacist Phil Angrignon of Castlegar Phara save. “They're trying to get larger prescriptions filled to save on dispensing fees making our percentages drop drastically profit-wise.” Angrignon said it's too early to tell how much Pharmasave has lost this year in dispensing fees because of the change, but he said it is significant. The consumer pays the same price for a prescription drug as the pharmacy does. The only profit for a pharmacy selling prescriptions comes from the dispensing fee it charges customers. Archer said the Pharmacists’ Society is against the provincial government's policy change on prescription drugs for seniors and has tried to prove the policy may be hazardous in some cases. But the society cannot prove the policy poses any health hazard to seniors at all. “We've been unable to prove that it is in fact been hazardous to the well-being of senior citizens in B.C. he said, adding the Pharmacare program in B.C. is still a great relief to some people. “When people fionally turn 65, they're quite thankful for Pharmacare because they no longer have to pay full price for prescription drugs.” CHURCH continued from front page The church maintains four theological colleges to train ministers — three in eastern Canada and one in the Vancouver area. Miles says in three or four years there will be no funds for the church to train ministers and it will take “a radical shift in how we do it” to maintain the training. He said there are_a number of options for the church, such as closifig several colleges, training ministers in pstablished ministries, along with correspondence courses or charging tuition. As well, Miles said churches are becoming very expensive to build “especially in the Vancouver area and eastern Canada.” On the positive side, Miles said the church's members are “deeply concerned about the church.” In a survey it sent out, 11,000 of the church's 70,000 active members took the time to respond. That's a return of about one in- seven. Miles says that the church brought in an estimated $72 million revenue in 1987 and the real test is “how to take these resources and share them throughout the church.” The survey indicated that members were most concerned with a lack of a focus on the future direction of the church. It also showed a lack of committed church members. “There is spotted across the church definite signs of a lack of commitment on the part of the members,” he said. “It seems to be difficult to recruit members on the ruling bodies,” he said, adding, “Most people are 60 and over.” Miles says the positive things are happening on the congregational level. Ferrier says Miles’s visit has energized him Having him come through gave us a lift to our congregation,” he said later. Ferrier explained that Miles was scheduled to spend only two hours in Castlegar before going on to Nelson and Cranbrook. However, Miles rearranged his schedule so that he had time to meet with congregation members, and Ferrier and his wife Olga and son Sandy. Miles spent some time at Stanley Humphries secondary school speaking to high school students about his trip to Africa and taped a local radio program. The Presbyterian Church of Canada will be making policy decisions on some contentious issues in the future such as whether or not to endorse euthanasia or the use of aborted fetuses for medical research. The church dealt with the abortion question three or four years ago, said Miles. “We have stated that we disagree with it except when the mother's health is in jeopardy,” he said. And the Presbyterian Church tackled the question of whether or ‘hot to allow homosexuals to be ordained in 1985. “We said no,” said Miles. Most recently, the church has made a collective statement on the free-trade issue. “We have asked the government to be aware of the human and social dimensions of free trade,” although the church is not opposed to the free-trade agreement, said Miles. He said the church wants to know how the free-trade agreement affects the poor. Broadbent promises tallied By the Canadian Press New Democrat Leader Ed Broad. bent sqaured his accounts Saturday with details on how he would raise $5.13 billion to cover election prom ises in the first year Then Broadbent harangued his rivals for not doing the same. He has already tried to flush out Liberal Leader John Turner by saying his campaign promises would cost each family. $1,200 in additional taxes, Elsewhere, Prime Minister Brian Mulroney took a similar tack, accusing the Liberal leader of playing hide and seek by refusing to say anything about his alternative to free trade. “He has told us what he is against, but he has nothing to say about what he is for,” Mulroney told a rally at Baie-St.-Paul in his Quebec riding of Charlevoix ‘We're putting the tax burden on those who can afford it' “When will he be telling Canadians whether or not he has any plan at all to ensure our future prosperity without free trade?” Then, lifting a few lines from the NDP script, he hit at Liberal campaign promises, saying they would mean “Canadian taxpayers are going to get it right in the neck.” Neither Mulroney nor Turner have tallied their promises or explained who will pay for them. The Liberal leader says Canadians will have to trust him. The prime minister says vaguely that the money is covered in the flexible fiscal framework of a previous federal budget. TAX THE RICH In Toronto, Broadbent said his party would hit corporations and the wealthy for $3.7 billion to $3.96 billion in new taxes and add $1.4 billion to the deficit in the first year. He also announced plans to buy four conventional submarines and six new frigates over ten years, at a cost of $930 million in the first four years. But Broadbent said average Can- adians won't pay for his promises. “We're putting the tax burden on those who can afford it,” he told a news conference. “We wouldn't hit the average family and they would hit them right between the eyes.” Earlier, the NDP leader took figures from the C.D. Howe Institute which estimates Liberal election promises are worth $26 billion over four years. “That works out to be about $1,200 per family in additional taxes,” he told a rally in Cambridge, Ont. “Is it any wonder John Turner won't tell us who's going to pay?” Turner did not campaign Sat urday, but two Liberal MPs con tinued the party's crusade against the free-trade deal with the United States. In Ottawa, Quebec MP Jean Lapierre told a news conference a vote for the NDP on Nov. 21 to stop the deal is a wasted ballot “If you vote for the NDP, you're wasting your vote, “Lapiere said in an appeal aimed at Quebec where 75 MPs will be elected. “The NDP is not in this race any more “There are two sides. You're either with the government and the Mul roney Reagan (trade) dea! or you are against it. If you are against it you've got to vote Liberal.” Nakusp to get new floats The federal government will spend $20,000 to install new floats at Nakusp, as part of its Harbor Revit alization Program. The project was announced Sat urday by Fisheries and Oceans Min ister Tom Siddon. The federal government's Harbor Revitalization Program makes funds available above and beyond regular Small Craft Harbors Program levels to catch up on the backlog of accum. ulated damage and deterioration and to meet increased demands for ser vice. “Installation of these floats will increase the value of the harbor to the community,” Siddon said in a prepared release. “This project un. derlines the government's determin ation to give users of the harbor the facilities they need for safe and efficient operation.