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The main monitoring techniques and sample types to meet different monitoring objectives. Includes information on typical locations and frequency for these.
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.
About Radioactive Substances Compliance Assessment Reports, assessments and inspections and what the Environment Agency will do if you do not follow the rules.
U6 exemption allows you to import sludge from one waste water treatment plant to another to reseed the biological process.
T14 exemption allows you to recover oil from oil filters before they're crushed so they can be transported for recovery.
This section explains how the Environment Agency describes the water environment geographical units, and how we assess their current condition.
Check if an item of upholstered domestic seating is a waste or non-waste item and, if it is waste, identify if it contains persistent organic pollutants (POPs).
How to design, inspect, monitor and maintain impounding reservoir spillways so they are safe.
For facilities with a treatment capacity of no more than 75 tonnes a day that accept no more than 35,000 tonnes a year.
For operators of a Part A installation with a treatment capacity of more than 75 tonnes each day and no more than 75,000 tonnes each year.
Standard rules for temporary storage on a flood plain of a main river.
Standard rules for the accumulation and disposal of radioactive waste from the NORM industrial activity of oil and gas production.
Standard rules for discharges to surface water: cooling water and heat exchangers.
How to comply with your EPR RSR environmental permit open sources radioactive waste non-nuclear premises.
Explains your permit conditions so you know how to comply with the conditions.
View the application submitted by National Highways Limited for Lower Thames Crossing, West Tilbury.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can store intact shock absorbers and undeployed airbags in otherwise fully depolluted ELVs on hardstanding.
View the application submitted by ABLE UK LIMITED for Teesside Environmental Reclamation and Recycling Centre, Tees Road, Hartlepool, TS25 2DB.
Environment Agency regulatory position on using BSI PAS 100 or PAS 110 compliant material which does not meet the plastics limit in the relevant resource framework.
How to comply with your environmental permit: technical guidance for operators.
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