Dep Criticized Over Massey Silo: ; Complaints of Proximity to School Ignored, Boundary Advances Overlooked, Raleigh Residents Say

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Permit files for Massey Energy's Goals Coal preparation plant contain dozens of detailed topographic maps. There are color drawings, engineering diagrams and lengthy technical data sheets.

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Dep Criticized Over Massey Silo: ; Complaints of Proximity to School Ignored, Boundary Advances Overlooked, Raleigh Residents Say

These documents once filled thick three-ring binders or were stuffed into accordion-style folders. Today, they are neatly stored on computer discs.

Files for the Goals Coal site near Sundial date back to 1982, when the operation obtained its first permit under the federal strip mine law.

But when Department of Environmental Protection officials approved two new Massey coal silos, they compared the company's plans only to the most recent site map submitted by a company engineer.

"We don't go back to earlier versions," said Randy Huffman, director of the DEP's Division of Mining and Recla...

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