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Environment Agency boat registration charges for Anglian waterways, the River Thames and River Medway.
Guidance on how we assess the quality of your monitoring procedures through an operator monitoring assessment (OMA) and what you can do to prepare.
Understand when your activities affect groundwater, what permissions you may need and how to prevent pollution.
Sampling and chemical testing of untreated sewage, treated sewage effluents and trade effluents.
This index will help you choose an appropriate periodic monitoring technique and standard for monitoring stack emissions to air (formerly part of M2).
Guidance on dredging and the removal of silt and sand from main rivers as a flood risk activity under the Environmental Permitting Regulations.
The water industry is producing strategic drainage and wastewater plans to maintain, improve, and extend robust and resilient drainage and wastewater systems.
Public and private waste collectors must follow the regulation on collecting certain wastes separately.
T2 exemption allows you to clean waste clothes and textiles to recover them for reuse or recycling.
Use this tool to find out if you need to apply for a simple bespoke or complex bespoke medium combustion plant permit.
This section will help you develop your application for a permit for a landfill or to deposit waste on land as a recovery operation. It will help you decide what information you must include in your application.
What you need to monitor and how to report your performance to meet your permit conditions.
Follow this groundwater protection code of practice to prevent pollution from solvent use and storage.
Emerging techniques on how to prevent or minimise the environmental impacts of post-combustion carbon dioxide capture.
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.
Guidance on how land and groundwater should be protected at permitted facilities.
Standard rules and generic risk assessment for new and existing, low risk, stationary medium combustion plant which is a natural gas boiler or hydrogen boiler.
OSM management and operation rules for water companies.
Find out the compliance limits for waste water treatment works (WWTW), and how to treat and monitor discharges to meet permit conditions.
Environment Agency regulatory position on the use of additional waste codes to store, treat or spread sewage sludge and septic tank sludge to land.
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