EGR and performance questions

This is funny... I take a cast EGR intake to machine shop to have cleaned/checked and when I pick it up he says, "Hope you don't plan on using EGR, cause the ports have been plugged."
$70.00 into an EGR intake that is not EGR. Wish I noticed that before having them work on it. I could have saved $25.00 on their service fee.
Now what to do? Try another intake, or try to get the plugs out, or use it as is?