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Use this code to help you follow the rules when you produce or use sewage sludge in agriculture.
Standard rules for constructing an outfall pipe up to 500mm diameter through a headwall into a main river.
Standard rules for repairing and protecting up to 20 metres of main river bank using natural materials.
Environment Agency boat registration charges for Anglian waterways, the River Thames and River Medway.
These are the appropriate measures for waste pre-acceptance, acceptance and tracking at regulated facilities with an environmental permit for treating or transferring chemical waste. They do not apply when waste will be rece…
The rules for manufacturing mercury added products in Great Britain, as well as importing and exporting them between Great Britain and non-EU countries.
The conditions that new cemetery developments, or new extensions of a cemetery, can operate under without needing an environmental permit.
How to request a longer timetable for the Environment Agency to assess if your proposal can be ‘duly made’.
Use the Environmental Quality Standards Directive (EQSD) list when scoping an activity for a Water Framework Directive (WFD) assessment.
This guidance is aimed at helping readers understand the permitting and other requirements specific to Radioactive Substances Regulation.
Handbook and software to help assess the risks of contaminated land exposure for human health.
T25 exemption allows you to treat food and other biodegradable waste by anaerobic digestion to produce digestate for use as fertiliser, and burn the resulting biogas.
Guidance explaining the use of soil guideline values (SGV) to asses the long-term exposure of chemicals in soil on human health.
Who this guidance is for, assessing appropriate measures for your site, the measures that apply to different types of facilities and implementing measures at new and existing facilities.
How to report a business or organisation that is not separating or collecting recyclable waste in line with the Simpler Recycling rules.
U14 exemption allows you to mix ash back into the soil to return some of the nutrients from the burnt crops and vegetation.
T24 exemption allows farmers to anaerobically digest manure, slurry and vegetation on their farms to produce digestate for use as fertiliser or soil conditioner.
T15 exemption allows you to treat aerosol cans by puncturing or crushing them using specialist treatment equipment, so the metal can be recovered.
Information on peak rainfall allowances for flood risk assessments, and flood and coastal risk projects, schemes and strategies.
Standards for the flood risk management industry on how to build and review hydraulic models and provide evidence for flood risk management decisions.
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