However, as a general rule, foreign religious missionaries were issued only 1-year residency permits instead of the 5-year permits allowed by law for residents in the country more than 2 years.

At first, no one considered reporting the incident because the net release of radiation - some 2,200 microcuries - was no more than the permits allowed, said a plant spokesman, Tony Nericcio.

Ban Is Now Lifted The building halt was ordered by the State Environmental Commissioner, Thomas Jorling, in November 1987, because waste water and storm drainage being handled by the Yonkers sewer plant exceeded the volume its permit allowed.

The total number of permits allowed will remain at 3,000.

A spokesman for the E.P.A., Herman Phillips, said that the agency had acted because the permit allowed for dredging of far more material than the amount in the original request, made in May 1990.

The house, at 175 Beach 115th Street, is one of 123 buildings in Queens that Buildings Department officials have closed since March 1997, when the city began a crackdown on houses illegally converted to accommodate more people than permits allowed.

An inspector concluded that the operator had a permit to run a small emery mine, but instead was operating a quarry for road-paving gravel, extracting at least 40 times more rock than the permit allowed.

The applicants are chosen by computer and if they exceed the permits allowed for any one area, they will be offered the option of choosing another region in which to hunt.

In 1968 the owner had a building permit, but he did what was a common practice then, and still now: he built higher and wider than his permit allowed.