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Checklists to help you prepare for flooding.
Find out if you qualify for ESOS and how to comply.
Types of waste and the maximum amounts you can use in building projects, landscaping or drainage works under a U1 exemption.
You can use the pre-application advice service to make sure your permit application is correct.
Rod fishing byelaws are rules and regulations explaining who can fish, where, when and what fish you can take in England.
Your responsibilities and rules to follow for watercourses on or near your property, and permissions you need to do work around them.
How the Thames Barrier works, and when it is scheduled to close.
S2 waste exemption allows you to store specific waste at a secure intermediate site, separate to where the waste was produced, before transportation to another site for recovery.
How to change details of your environmental permit, transfer it to somebody else or cancel it.
Find out where SPZs are, what defines the different zones and why the Environment Agency must protect groundwater from pollution.
The controls that apply if you transport waste out of or into England.
Groundwater flooding, how it might affect you and what to do.
T28 waste exemption allows pharmacies and similar practitioners to denature controlled drugs, to comply with Misuse of Drugs Regulations 2001. T28 exemptions are free of charge.
Find out if you need to follow standing advice when completing a flood risk assessment and what to do.
How to assess and manage the risks from historic land contamination.
How to store oil, design standards for tanks and containers, where to locate and how to protect them, and capacity of bunds and drip trays.
Get help to improve water and air quality, and reduce flood risk on agricultural land.
How to develop a management system and keep it up to date so that you can carry out activities under an environmental permit.
Registers of electrical and electronic equipment (EEE) producers, approved exporters, approved authorised treatment facilities and producer compliance schemes.
Rules you must follow, who’s responsible, when to notify the Environment Agency and what to do if you get an enforcement notice.
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