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Find out about Compliance Assessment Reports, assessments, inspections and permit reviews, and what the Environment Agency will do if you do not follow the rules.
How to recover fluorinated gas (F gas) from equipment and get it reclaimed or recycled.
Guidance and resources to help apply the 2025 flood and coastal erosion risk management (FCERM) funding policy for new projects opportunities.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can exceed storage capacity at permitted or unpermitted sites in response to current national treatment capacity constraints for WTEE.
Standard rules for constructing an outfall pipe up to 500mm diameter through a headwall into a main river.
Find out if your groundwater discharges are extremely low risk so don’t need an environmental permit or exemption.
Use this service to notify the Environment Agency if you plan to construct a new or substantially enlarge an existing silage, slurry or agricultural fuel oil store, or store field silage on a new site.
How to submit an appropriate environmental permit application for a landfill site, and how to carry out your activities to comply with your permit.
Standard rules to operate a household, commercial and industrial waste transfer station. These rules also allow the storage of asbestos, batteries, cable and waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE).
An introduction to the standards (appropriate measures) that apply to regulated facilities permitted under the Environmental Permitting Regulations to treat or transfer separate collections of waste batteries.
When you're exempt from needing an environmental permit for letting vegetation cuttings fall into rivers, streams, lakes and canals.
Use this whistleblowing form to report an environmental issue by your employer.
Records you must keep about fluorinated gas (F gas) in your own equipment.
How to assess the risks to groundwater for treated effluent discharges.
Use this form to transfer the whole of your abstraction or impounding licence to someone else.
When you need consent or permit to discharge from water supply assets to surface waters. How to carry out a risk assessment and how to apply.
How to deal with waste, including hazardous waste, and prevent pollution.
What you must do to carry out a risk assessment if you're a farmer applying for a bespoke permit for intensive farming.
How to decide if textiles are waste or non-waste, and the controls that apply when importing or exporting them.
S3 waste exemption lets you store sewage sludge at a site where it will be used in accordance with the Sludge (Use in Agriculture) Regulations 1989.
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