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1 DOMENICO'S TESTIMONY CONT'D MAYOR WASCHAK . JIM MOTE That's when they really jarred things. See they put down in there what they want to. You see there is a descrepancy there. Now then over here. Jack Yoblin, president, maintains that alleged structural damage of buildings in vicinity is due to other factors besides E. F. I. activities. This here is the Louisville Times quote 1/3/76. Yoblin said that represen- tatives of the State Geological Survey Office and County Geologist, Tom Gray, had inspected the house in this area and had determined deterio- tion due to age, settling of underlying mines very poor footings, poor construction caused by the railroad. Now I wanna know them other factors that is shakLng that property over there; cause the railroad has a pole barrier on each side. Well that railroad started in here and I'm holding you people for that; cause I came down here for that help that time and never got it. They just passed it on to the railroad, and that's all I have to say. Does E. F. Industries wish to answer Mr. Domenico in regard to his remarks? My name is Jim Mote, I am vice-president of E.F. Industries. Mr. Domenico has essentially called me a liar again in front of Council, and I would like to once again clarify the report that was put together was based on shots that were act- ually measured. Again I repeat, we do not moni- tor every shot we make. It is an expensive proposition. We take readings from time to time just ro verify that we are with acceptable stan- dards, and when we are shooting the same charge time and again, we don't bother to repeat those measurements. So if he has a time down in his little day-timer that says a shot went off at such and such a time and our report doesn't record that - doesn't mean that we are trying to hide anything from anyone. We do maintain a log book, not to the detail Mr. Domenico keeps his log book. We keep a daily log on the number of shots made on that day, but we don'tnote the times. That log book has the amount of explos- ive that was used on a particular shot on a par- ticular day, and if there are 5 shots there wil be 5 entries and it is from that log book you can determine the size of charge that was shot off at various times during that day. That log book is open to examination by Councilor any of their representatives. Thank you. -12-