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Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can operate an ‘orphan’ waste effluent treatment plant without a waste operation or waste installation environmental permit.
How to analyse samples taken to monitor pollution released from chimney stacks.
This monitoring certification scheme (MCERTS) guidance describes the certification process for low risk plant monitors.
How to become certified to monitor pollution released from chimney stacks – the experience and training you need and the exams you must take.
The purpose of this document is to provide a best method approach to sampling and analysing emissions from enclosed landfill gas flares.
Guidance to developers or operators of near-surface disposal facilities for solid radioactive waste.
This guidance explains the Generic Design Assessment (GDA) process for organisations who want to submit a nuclear power plant design for assessment.
Publishing dates for packaging data.
Standard rules to operate non-hazardous sludge biological chemical and physical treatment sites up to 250kte.
Standard rules and generic risk assessment for Tranche B Specified Generator with individual unit capacity <2MWth in Air Quality Management Areas or high ambient NOx.
Standard rules for constructing steps ramps and other structures in to existing bank profile of main river.
Standard rules to capture, treat and store biogas from lagoons and tanks.
Boating basics including essential knowledge and techniques you need to make sure you enjoy yourselves and stay safe on the water.
Guidance to help operators of installations with greenhouse gas emissions permits comply with their obligations under the UK Emissions Trading Scheme (UK ETS).
How to submit water discharge returns using your own XML file based on the Environment Agency’s generic operator returns (GOR) schema.
These are the appropriate measures for ELV storage at regulated facilities with an environmental permit to treat ELVs.
Assessing appropriate measures for your site, the measures that apply to different types of facilities and implementing measures at new and existing facilities.
You need approval from the Environment Agency before you deposit waste over completed cells that have permanently stopped taking waste.
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.
What needs to be done to manage flood risk and adapt to rising sea levels in Richmond, one of 23 policy units in Thames Estuary 2100 (TE2100).
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