Misrepresentation to NJDEP

The Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association’s (OGCMA) application to the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP) consisted of false statements, intended to strengthen the likelihood that such a permit would be issued.

Neptune United is concerned that the Permit issued by NJDEP would not have been issued to the OGCMA had the OGCMA’s application consisted of only true information. The Permit, as issued, states that if a permitee “submitted incorrect information in an application, it shall promptly submit such [updated] facts or information.”

Misrepresentations by the OGCMA

The OGCMA’s application to the NJDEP, filed on September 13, 2021, available here, and the supplemental application submitted on November 22, 2021, available here, contain misrepresentations that should be corrected, including, but not limited to:

• The classification of the pier as “public.”

• An assertion that “public access is provided on a nondiscriminatory basis.”

• An assertion that the OGCMA fully complies with NJAC 7:7-1.69 Public Access Compliance because “it does not discourage or prevent the exercise of public trust rights in any fashion.”

• An assertion that a conservation restriction easement is not required.