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Standard rules for temporary storage on a flood plain of a main river.
How the Environment Agency considers competing proposals to abstract water and what to do if the Environment Agency has said your application is competing with one or more other proposals.
Find out the energy efficiency requirements you must comply with, and how to comply, to operate under an environmental permit.
What you must do to carry out a risk assessment if you're a farmer applying for a bespoke permit for intensive farming.
Find out when you must consult Natural England or the Environment Agency if you're preparing plans or considering development proposals.
How to approach sampling ambient air and the sampling and analytical techniques to use.
Sources of radioactivity in the environment and how levels of radioactivity are monitored and assessed.
You can report fraud and irregularities against the Environment Agency.
How to write a reservoir written statement and a site visit report and what information to include.
Information for boaters on the River Nene.
How the Environment Agency regulates discharges and radioactive waste disposals from Sellafield through environmental permitting.
Where to install your meter, checking it's accurate, how often to check it and the records you must keep.
Environment Agency regulatory position on burning dunnage under a Plant Health Notice.
Use this template to write a declaration of conformity to certify that HFCs (F gas) in equipment you import or manufacture are covered by a HFC quota.
Guidance on dredging and the removal of silt and sand from main rivers as a flood risk activity under the Environmental Permitting Regulations.
This guidance will help the regulator, stakeholders, and others with an interest in groundwater activities in England.
This guidance describes the certification process for continuous emission monitoring systems (CEMS), transportable CEMS (T-CEMS) and dust arrestment plant monitors.
Performance standard for stack emission monitoring, fugitive emissions and landfill gas borehole emissions.
Formerly part of M18, index of CEN and ISO monitoring methods for monitoring discharges to water.
Guidance on how we assess the quality of your monitoring procedures through an operator monitoring assessment (OMA) and what you can do to prepare.
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