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Responding to suspected breaches of planning control.
When you need an environmental permit, licence or to address planning considerations to mitigate nutrient pollution.
Diseases and health problems in sheep and goats, including foot and mouth disease (FMD), scrapie and lead poisoning
Follow this groundwater protection code of practice to prevent pollution from solvent use and storage.
Treating and disposing of non-hazardous farm waste, sending to landfill, burying waste, incinerating fallen stock and recycling waste fuel oil.
How to apply for standard rules and bespoke permits for A1 installations, including low impact installations.
Environmental regulations and guidance on offshore oil and gas exploration and production, offshore gas unloading and storage and offshore carbon dioxide storage activities
What you must do to manage manure, fertiliser and soil to prevent runoff, erosion and leaching.
Find out if and by when you need to apply for a specified generator environmental permit to meet air quality requirements.
If you carry out activities listed in Schedule 1 of the Pollution Prevention and Control Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003 you need a permit for your installation or mobile plant
Your business may need a Part A PPC permit if it operates certain types of installations in Scotland that could cause emissions to land, water or air
Guidance on regulations covering new power generating plants and wayleaves.
Yearly intervention plans are produced for oil and gas operations based on the OPRED inspection strategy. Enforcement activities for the breach of environmental regulations is based on the OPRED enforcement policy.
When you need to do an environmental risk assessment, when the Environment Agency will do it for you, and how to do a risk assessment.
How to complete an air emissions risk assessment, including how to calculate the impact of your emissions and the standards you must meet.
How to carry out a groundwater risk assessment as part of an application for an environmental permit.
What best available techniques are, when you must follow them, how to propose alternatives and how to refer to them in your application.
The conditions that new cemetery developments, or new extensions of a cemetery, can operate under without needing an environmental permit.
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