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This guidance explains the Generic Design Assessment (GDA) process for organisations who want to submit a nuclear power plant design for assessment.
Guidance to developers or operators of near-surface disposal facilities for solid radioactive waste.
A guide to planning, designing, constructing and commissioning a water storage reservoir.
The purpose of this document is to provide a best method approach to sampling and analysing emissions from enclosed landfill gas flares.
Updated guidance for risk management authorities (RMAs) and project teams on how to use the PF calculator 2020 when developing FCERM projects.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when sweeping waste can be stored and bulked before collection for onward recovery and disposal elsewhere
How the Environment Agency will respond to planning consultations that include activities we permit under the Environmental Permitting Regulations 2010 (EPR).
Details of access points, events and facilities on the River Wye.
10 wastes are from thermal processes. Your permit lists the 10 waste codes you can use. You must follow the guidance given in the Before you start section.
The dangers of flash flooding and how to stay safe.
Get approval for your fish pass design when building or making changes to a dam, weir or mill.
How regulators determine fit and proper person status when you apply for approval as a compliance scheme or accreditation as a reprocessor or exporter.
The main monitoring techniques and sample types to meet different monitoring objectives. Includes information on typical locations and frequency for these.
How to define the objectives for your programme and think about what is proportionate and sustainable, along with health, safety, welfare and quality considerations.
Emerging techniques on how to prevent or minimise the environmental impacts of industrial hydrogen production from methane or refinery fuel gas with carbon capture for storage.
When you can get a licence to catch salmon or sea trout by net in England. How to apply and rules to follow.
This section describes the aims of the Water Environment (Water Framework Directive (England and Wales) Regulations 2017, objectives for specific water body types, the river basin planning process and cost recovery.
This section summarises the measures to achieve each of the main sets of environmental objectives for water bodies and protected areas set out in the plans.
This guide explains the problems and risks which may come from extreme weather, how to mitigate them and how you can make your reservoir more resilient. You can read each section in isolation, or as a whole document.
When you need an environmental permit, licence or to address planning considerations to mitigate nutrient pollution.
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