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How to apply for standard rules and bespoke permits for A1 installations, including low impact installations.
When you need an environmental permit to discharge liquid effluent or waste water to surface water or the ground, and how to apply.
View a list of environmental permitting applications that have been submitted to the Environment Agency.
List of exemptions for disposing of waste, for example depositing or burning it in certain ways. You must comply with the specific rules of each exemption.
The controls that apply if you transport waste out of or into England.
Apply for a standard rules permit for installations, mining waste or waste operations.
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.
How you must control and monitor emissions from your activities that may cause pollution.
You can use the pre-application advice service to make sure your permit application is correct.
Guidance documents, risk methods, permits and charge sheets for local authorities carrying out pollution control.
Complete if you are applying for a new permit, or to change or transfer an existing permit.
List of exemptions for treating waste, for example sorting or processing it in certain ways. You must comply with the specific rules of each exemption.
This guide is for anyone who dredges inland waterways and wants to deposit the dredged waste on land. It does not apply to hydrodynamic dredging or waste disposal at sea.
The U1 exemption allows you to use suitable waste in construction as a recovery activity.
You may need an environmental permit if your business uses, recycles, treats, stores or disposes of waste or mining waste.
Guidance and templates for landfill operators on the technical standards required to meet environmental protection and permit conditions.
Nuclear site radioactive substances regulation (RSR), when you need a permit, how to apply, how to change (vary), transfer or surrender your permit
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