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How to submit an appropriate environmental permit application for a deposit for recovery operation and what to include in a waste recovery plan.
Terms and conditions between the Environment Agency and its suppliers for purchases of goods and services, including research and development.
Technical guidance for monitoring landfill leachate, groundwater and surface water at permitted landfill sites.
How the Environment Agency meets the Regulators’ Code.
Describes the challenges to the current and potential future uses of the water environment in England.
Standard rules for discharges to surface water: cooling water and heat exchangers.
Environment Agency regulatory position allowing operators 12 months to get additional qualifications if required, when moving to a new consolidated standard rules permit.
Find all the documents, data and maps that make up the Anglian river basin district river basin management plan.
How to define the objectives for your programme and think about what is proportionate and sustainable, along with health, safety, welfare and quality considerations.
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.
19 waste codes are from waste management facilities, off-site waste water treatment plants and the preparation of water intended for human consumption and water for industrial use. Your permit lists the 19 waste codes you ca…
Identify, describe, classify and manage waste institutional mattresses containing persistent organic pollutants (POPs).
How to apply to the Environment Agency to trade water abstraction rights with another party.
T16 exemption allows you to treat waste toner or ink cartridges by sorting, cleaning, dismantling or refilling them.
T21 exemption allows you to recover wastes such as sewage grits, screenings and sewage sludge at a waste water treatment works.
The additional appropriate measures for waste storage, segregation and handling at regulated facilities with an environmental permit for the treatment or transfer of WTEE.
From the 1 April 2025 you must pay the Environment Agency (greenhouse gas emissions) charges for 1 April 2025 to 31 March 2026.
Environment Agency regulatory position on installing small-scale equipment for monitoring in a river and for associated equipment such as instrument cabinets located alongside.
Guidance on the monitoring of bioaerosols from stacks, open biofilters and in ambient air.
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