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Criteria for the Environment Agency to use when enforcing the Farming Rules for Water, particularly for autumn and winter applications of organic manures.
The water industry is producing strategic drainage and wastewater plans to maintain, improve, and extend robust and resilient drainage and wastewater systems.
End of waste criteria for the production and use of quality outputs from anaerobic digestion of source-segregated biodegradable waste.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can store and shred electronic storage media containing confidential or sensitive material for data security and destruction only without an environmental permit.
Environment Agency enforcement position on shredding waste upholstered domestic seating (WUDS) containing persistent organic pollutants (POPs).
SR2015 No 16: metal recycling site.
Standard rules for a waste transfer station accepting construction, demolition and excavation waste.
Environment Agency regulatory position on the temporary storage and controlled depressurising of nominally empty discarded nitrous oxide canisters.
How to reduce the risk of becoming ill after swimming in lakes, rivers and estuaries.
Environment Agency regulatory position allowing operators 12 months to get additional qualifications if required, when moving to a new consolidated standard rules permit.
Find out about discharge limits and controls of substances discharged from water treatment works.
Assessing appropriate measures for your site, the measures that apply to different types of facilities and implementing measures at new and existing facilities.
When you need a consent or permit to make a discharge from your reservoir and how to carry out a risk assessment.
T20 exemption allows you to treat certain waste at water treatment works to reduce the volume for transport, or to make it easier to handle for waste recovery.
View the documents for an appeal against the Environment Agency’s decision to vary a permit.
How the Environment Agency will respond to planning consultations that include activities we permit under the Environmental Permitting Regulations 2010 (EPR).
Map shows areas where salmonid fish are in main rivers that may affect applications for flood risk activity permits.
How the Environment Agency meets the Regulators’ Code.
For a facility with a treatment capacity of less than 100 tonnes of waste, or a combination of waste and non-waste each day accepting no more than 35,000 tonnes each year.
Standard rules to operate a materials recycling facility (MRF).
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