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Flood risk activity exemptions and how to register.
Check if you're exempt from needing an environmental permit for discharges from an open loop ground source heating and cooling system. Then register this exemption.
Helps you find the information you need in the river basin management plans (RBMPs).
Environment Agency regulatory position on storing chemical toilet waste, and other sewage related wastes, without an environmental permit.
D8 exemption allows you to burn plant tissue waste, wood packaging and packing material waste at a port when a Plant Health Notice has been issued, to prevent the spread of plant diseases.
How to fund the £16.2 billion cost of upgrading flood defences in the Thames Estuary up until 2100.
Find out who is involved in Thames Estuary 2100 (TE2100) and their responsibilities.
These are the appropriate measures for ELV storage at regulated facilities with an environmental permit to treat ELVs.
This guidance explains the standards (appropriate measures) that are relevant to regulated facilities with an environmental permit to store and treat end of life vehicles ELVs. Exempt facilities which store or treat ELVs may…
How the Environment Agency defines the terms 'biodegradable' and 'sewage sludge'.
T32 exemption allows you to treat non-hazardous pesticide washings in a biobed or biofilter.
Standard rules for constructing steps ramps and other structures in to existing bank profile of main river.
SR2015 No 38: removing 100 metres of exposed gravel from bars and shoals over a 1 km length of main river.
Standard rules to operate mobile plant for landspreading of sewage sludge and deployment form.
Standard rules to operate an asbestos waste transfer station.
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.
Statutory guidance on river basin management plans in England.
How electricity distribution network operators can use statistical modelling to identify and remove PCB equipment by 31 December 2025.
View the permit issued for Net Zero Teesside Power Station and Carbon Capture Plant, Redcar under the Industrial Emissions Directive.
What to do during the aftercare phase and what to include in an application to surrender your permit.
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