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LAKESIDE MANOR AND MOUNTAIN LAKES ESTATES VS. STATE OF NEW JERSEY DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION A-0843-09T3 08-01-11

LAKESIDE MANOR AND MOUNTAIN LAKES ESTATES VS. STATE OF NEW JERSEY DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION A-0843-09T3

A violation of a condition of a permit does not render the permit "null and void"; it only provides a possible ground for revocation of the permit. The DEP erred in concluding that developers were not entitled to an exemption from the Highlands Act because, even though they completed construction of the sewer lines for the development before the deadline for the exemption, they failed to obtain EPA approval of the revised wetlands mapping required by the permits for that construction.