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The conditions that new cemetery developments, or new extensions of a cemetery, can operate under without needing an environmental permit.
How to decommission an underground storage tank temporarily or permanently and the risks to groundwater.
This section summaries mechanisms for controlling discharges and limiting or preventing pollutants entering the water.
How to carry out a groundwater risk assessment for human or animal burials.
How to register a reservoir, appoint a panel engineer, produce a flood plan, prepare an inspection information pack and report an incident.
How to install an underground storage tank, pipes and related equipment.
When you need an environmental permit to discharge liquid effluent or waste water to surface water or the ground, and how to apply.
How to clean and disinfect after an animal disease outbreak and store and dispose of the washwater.
The T1 waste exemption allows you to treat waste packaging so it can be reused in its original form or becomes clean waste suitable for recycling.
Environment Agency enforcement position on when you can store and treat chemical toilet waste, and other sewage related wastes, without an environmental permit.
The Environment Agency’s role in the development and regulation of a geological disposal facility for radioactive waste.
Where you can build a pet cemetery, the animals you can bury there, how it must be built and how to register.
Appropriate measures for waste treatment.
Assessing the appropriate measures that will apply to a permitted facility that handles biowaste.
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