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The types of permit available, how much they cost and how to apply for your environmental permit.
Find out if and by when you need to apply for a specified generator environmental permit to meet air quality requirements.
When your waste operation does not need a permit but you may need to register.
The D2 exemption allows older rolling stock not fitted with appropriate collection facilities to deposit sanitary waste onto the track.
If you abstract water or plan to, you may need to apply for an abstraction licence.
How to manage water use, levels, drainage and irrigation, and avoid pollution from waste water and sheep dip.
The S2 waste exemption allows you to store specific waste at a secure intermediate site, separate to where the waste was produced, before transportation to another site for recovery.
How to meet the requirements of using mobile plant for landspreading waste to provide agricultural benefit or ecological improvement.
Emerging techniques on how to prevent or minimise the environmental impacts of hydrogen production by electrolysis of water.
Plan for climate change impacts to and from your site. How to integrate climate change adaptation into your management system under an environmental permit.
The qualifications you need to work with fluorinated gas (F gas) and the organisations that offer them.
The U4 exemption allows you to use waste plant material or untreated wood as fuel in a small appliance to produce heat or power.
Apply to be a waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) producer compliance scheme and operate legally under your approval.
When and how risk management authorities should use climate change allowances for flood and coastal risk projects, schemes and strategies.
Emerging techniques on how to prevent or minimise the environmental impacts of post-combustion carbon dioxide capture.
How to create a CRC evidence pack, how regulators audit to check compliance and penalties for non-compliance.
How to assess the risks to groundwater for treated effluent discharges.
How to meet the general binding rules if your septic tank or small sewage discharge treatment plant releases (discharges) waste water to a surface water.
Use this tool to find out if you need to apply for a simple bespoke or complex bespoke medium combustion plant permit.
How to meet the general binding rules or apply for a permit if you have a septic tank or treatment plant - fees, application forms and exceptions
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