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How to work out charges for water abstraction and impounding licences.
Types of waste and maximum amounts you can use for spreading as mulch to benefit land around trees, bushes or plants, under U12 waste exemption.
How to trial new operating models and technologies at regulated facilities.
Find out when to prepare a water cycle study for your proposed development plan document, or development, and what to focus on.
Information on peak river flow allowances for flood risk assessments, and flood and coastal risk projects, schemes and strategies.
Environment Agency regulatory position on using non-waste absorbents to solidify saturated soils and slurry wastes produced during construction and excavation works.
Standard rules for constructing an outfall pipe up to 500mm diameter through a headwall into a main river.
Standard rules for mobile plant treating wastes to produce soil, soil substitutes and aggregate.
Requirements for businesses that operate or service electrical switchgear that contains sulphur hexaflouride (SF6).
Information on waste codes and descriptions to use when landspreading to improve soil health.
Nuclear site radioactive substances regulation (RSR), when you need a permit, how to apply, how to change (vary), transfer or surrender your permit
Environment Agency regulatory position on storing vehicles carrying waste that have been seized by or on behalf of the seizure authority.
Environment Agency enforcement position on when you can dewater and deposit silt from SUDS without an environmental permit.
Standard rules to capture, treat and store biogas from lagoons and tanks.
Rules for shipping waste plastic.
River Great Ouse: bridge heights, locks, overhead power lines and facilities.
U13 exemption allows you to spread cut plant material at the place of production for weed suppression or to provide nutrients to the soil.
Waste codes for common wastes produced by mechanical treatment at a waste management facility.
Environment Agency regulatory position on dewatering bentonite slurry waste produced by piling works or the construction of retaining and containment walls.
Sampling and chemical testing of untreated sewage, treated sewage effluents and trade effluents.
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