Aé - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, May 29, 2002 ROAD WORK continues this summer to improve the Nisga’ a Highway, includ- ing this stretch alongside Lava Lake. Cost overruns are pushing up the price. Nisga’a highway cost to pass $50m THE COST of improving the Nisga’a Highway into the Nass Valley is poised to creep past the $50 mil- lion mark and could top out at $52 million, indi- cates government budget documents. When first laid out three years ago, the seven- year project was to cost an estimated $41 million. But that figure was found to be lacking by last summer because of a pro- mise made by the previous NDP government, said transportation minister Ju- dith Reid. The NDP promised the Nisga’a the road would be paved with asphalt yet subsequent plans instead called for seal-coaling, a mixture of oil and small rocks. The Nisga’a protested, saying they were promised asphalt and were holding the government to the commitment. Reid agreed, causing her to make a successful pitch ‘Yast summer to the ~ provincial Treasury Board for more money. At an open cabinet Judith Reid meeting in July 2001, Reid told her colleagues the extra cost amounted to $8 million, bringing the pro- ject to the $49 million mark. But she said the Trea- sury Board approval was actually for $11 million, bringing the total cost to $52 million as outline in the budget documents. “I didn’! want to give cut the exact figure be- cause we were in negotia- tians’’ with’ the ‘Nisga’a Jabout lowering the cost},"~ said Reid. “It’s unfortunate to not have had the final cost fig- ures then but we were in negotiations.” Reid conceded it was” odd to have one figure ap- proved by Treasury Board, but use another during a negotiations period. “That’s what happens in government,” she said, * Those negotiations were aimed at lowering the cost by lowering the design standards of some portions of the project, said Reid. 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