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How to keep your reservoir operating safely. For reservoir owners, operators and those maintaining or operating large raised reservoirs in England.
Standard rules for mobile plant treating wastes to produce soil, soil substitutes and aggregate.
Standard rules for installing a clear span bridge up to 8 metres span and 4.2 metres wide across a main river.
Environment Agency charging scheme for waste (miscellaneous), including all amendments up to and including August 2025.
The Environment Agency has provided these low risk waste positions (LRWPs) for waste operations that it considers may be suitable for an exemption.
Guidance on how to calculate the impact of Flood and coastal erosion risk management (FCERM) on the natural and historic environment and a tool to calculate a monetary value of the impact.
How to restore your landfill site to meet your permit conditions.
How to calculate your financial provision, what it needs to cover and how to agree it with the Environment Agency.
Appropriate measures for waste treatment.
The appropriate measures for waste treatment at regulated facilities with an environmental permit for the treatment of WEEE.
Apply for approval as a facility to treat, recycle or export waste batteries for treatment and recycling and the rules you must follow.
Nuclear site radioactive substances regulation (RSR), when you need a permit, how to apply, how to change (vary), transfer or surrender your permit
Standard rules for temporary scaffolding affecting up to 20 metres length of a main river.
MCERTS standard specifying the minimum requirements for installing and using event duration monitors (EDMs) required by an environmental permit.
A document to help Environment Agency staff identify and communicate climate impacts and risks relevant to our work.
How to demonstrate 'decarbonisation readiness' for new or substantially refurbished electricity generating combustion plants when applying for an environmental permit.
The standards you must meet to close your landfill site and move it into aftercare.
Use this tool to find out if you need to apply for a simple bespoke or complex bespoke medium combustion plant permit.
How to develop monitoring strategies for assessing levels of pollutants in the ambient atmosphere.
How to decommission an underground storage tank temporarily or permanently and the risks to groundwater.
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