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When you're exempt from needing an environmental permit for letting vegetation cuttings fall into rivers, streams, lakes and canals.
D6 exemption allows you to dispose of small amounts of specific waste that have been produced on site in an incinerator.
Formerly part of M18, technical guidance for industrial plant operators (and their contractors) who monitor effluent discharges to water and sewer.
Guidance to help organisations choose a monitoring approach for stack emissions to air that meets Environment Agency and MCERTS requirements (formerly part of M2).
Standard rules to allow you to operate a metal recycling site and a vehicle depollution and dismantling facility at a specified location.
The emission limit values (ELVs) and air quality standards specified generators must meet, including the deadlines for complying.
Formerly part of M18, index of CEN and ISO monitoring methods for monitoring discharges to water.
Notice of application for a drought order.
Information on how your personal data relating to financial transactions may be used in counter-fraud and error data matching exercises.
Handbook and software to help assess the risks of contaminated land exposure for human health.
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.
This guidance explains the standards (appropriate measures) that are relevant to regulated facilities with an environmental permit to store and treat ELVs or components. Exempt facilities which store or treat ELVs or compo…
Find out when you must consult Natural England or the Environment Agency if you're preparing plans or considering development proposals.
These are appropriate measures for the environmental management of a regulated facility permitted to store, treat or transfer (or both) non-hazardous and inert waste.
Standard rules for the storage of asbestos waste.
Standard rules for installing and using boreholes and temporary trial pits within a floodplain.
Environment Agency regulatory position on the temporary discharge of water unfit for supply from water undertaker treatment and supply assets.
This guidance describes how to use the NFM benefits method for standalone NFM projects aiming to reduce the risk from surface water and river flooding.
Information on peak rainfall allowances for flood risk assessments, and flood and coastal risk projects, schemes and strategies.
The basic odour control measures you must use for any regulated activity.
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