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Use the Environmental Quality Standards Directive (EQSD) list when scoping an activity for a Water Framework Directive (WFD) assessment.
The Environment Agency has provided these low risk waste positions (LRWPs) for waste operations that it considers may be suitable for an exemption.
Guidance for operators, test laboratories and equipment suppliers on the quality assurance of continuous emissions monitoring systems (CEMS).
What river basin management plans are and their benefits. How they are structured and finding the information you need.
Standard rules for installing and using boreholes and temporary trial pits within a floodplain.
Unofficial list of waste description codes listed in annexes to the Waste Shipments Regulation.
D3 exemption allows the burial of waste from a portable toilet, to avoid long-distance transportation of small quantities of waste to sewage treatment works.
How to apply for compliance scheme approval, register, take on packaging producer responsibilities and comply.
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.
How to comply with emission limit values (ELVs) for hydrogen combustion plant greater than 1 megawatt thermal input (MWth).
Waste codes for common wastes produced by mechanical treatment at a waste management facility.
Sources of radioactivity in the environment and how levels of radioactivity are monitored and assessed.
Standard rules for research and development activities which support products and processes associated with permitted activities at Part A(1) installations.
These are the appropriate measures for emissions control at regulated facilities with an environmental permit for treating or transferring chemical waste.
When you can get permission to catch eel or elver by trap or net in England. How to apply and rules to follow.
Managing healthcare waste safely through appropriate waste classification, segregation and treatment.
U9 exemption allows you to use waste in place of raw materials to manufacture a finished product.
The licences and permits you need, the documents you must prepare, and how to apply to build a hydropower scheme.
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.
These are emissions limits and appropriate measures for monitoring emissions to air and water for a regulated facility permitted to store, treat or transfer (or both) non-hazardous and inert waste.
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