6 Herald/Lanter/Dispatch 10, April '85

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Hughes Pushes Shore Funding

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Congressman William Hughes has asked Congress to appropriate funds for eight navigation and beach erosion control projects in South Jersey. Following are descriptions of county projects supported by Hughes dur ing his testimony : Cape May Inlet 76 Lower ($1,350,000) - Hughes urged the Subcommittee to appropriate funds to complete the advanced engineering and design and begin construction of this comprehensive beach ero- - sion control and storm protection project in Cape May County. He noted that the erosion has robbed Cape May City of its beaches and is threatening to wash the

nearby U.S. Coast Guard Training Center— the only such facility in the country—out to sea. The administration recommended no funding for this project in its fiscal 1386 budget. • (3) New Jersey Intracoastal Waterway ($3,570,000) - The IWW is the major inland shipping route in New Jersey. Hughes requested funds to dredge the major trouble spots in the waterway, and also funds to stabilize the badly eroded banks of Cape May Canal in Lower Township. The Administration recommended $2,865,000 for this project. •(4) Cold Spring (Cape May ) Inlet ($590,000) - These dredging funds are needed. Hughes said, to help the Coast Guard perform its many missions in South Jersey, ranging from search and rescue missions to drug interdiction. No funds are in the Administration's budget. • Cape May Point ($100,000) — Hughes requested these funds to complete the engineering and design of a beach erosion control and storm protection project here. No funding was requested by the Administration for this study. During his testimony. Hughes pointed out. that the economy in South Jersey is heavily dependent upon the inland waterways and coastal resources, and that there are more than two dozen federally-authorized projects on the books in his district alone. "Some of these projects are critical, and must be funded this year," he said. "Others are not as critical, and can reasonably be deferred until we get our fiscal house in order in Washington. "While I would like to see all of these projects move forward at once. I am here today to seek funding only for those eight projects which— in the opinion of the Army Corps, local officials and myself— simply cannot be deferred," Hughes said to the subcommittee.

Designer Drug Hit By Ban WASHINGTON, D.C. - House Crime Subcommittee Chairman Bill Hughes (D-N.J.) has announced that the Drug Enforcement Administration was banning the "designer drug", 3-methylfentanyl. This drug, sold on the street as "china white" or synthetic heroin, has been responsible for 26 deaths since Aug 1, 1984. This is the first use of the emergency scheduling powers authored by Hughes to allow the Drug Enforcement Administration to temporarily ban dangerous new drugs developed by underground chemists. HUGHES WROTE the emergency scheduling powers in the Dangerous Dnig Diversion Control Act of 1984 (P.L. 98-473) to allow the temporary ban while government scientists conduct thorough research required for permanent control. "This new drug is just emerging as a major health hazard, particularly in the San Francisco Bay area, where 20 of the deaths have taken place, Hughes said. This chemical was only first identified in December, 1983 in Fresno, Calif., and already it is a major killer. The drug banned, 3-methylfentanyl. is estimated to be up to 5,000 times more potent than morphine. It is also 200 times more toxic than morphine. Over 60 people have been killed since 1980 by forms of this chemical, posing an imminent hazard to the public safety.