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Find the 2022 update to the river basin management plans which describe the challenges that threaten the water environment and how these challenges can be managed.
T6 exemption allows you to chip, shred, pulverise or cut waste wood and plant matter to make it suitable for a specific purpose.
What best available techniques are, when you must follow them, how to propose alternatives and how to refer to them in your application.
How the Environment Agency and Natural Resources Wales complete the annual Environmental Performance Assessment (EPA) of water and sewerage companies in England and Wales.
You can temporarily store any waste at the place of production before it’s collected. You do not need to register this exemption.
How to apply for standard rules and bespoke permits for A1 installations, including low impact installations.
For waste operators and exporters classifying some waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) devices, waste components, and wastes from their treatment.
How the Environment Agency carries out government policy for groundwater and adopts a risk-based approach where legislation allows.
How to assess the impact of your activity in estuarine (transitional) and coastal waters for the Water Framework Directive (WFD). The guidance is called Clearing the Waters for All.
These are the appropriate measures for waste storage, segregation and handling at regulated facilities with an environmental permit for treating or transferring healthcare waste.
How climate change agreements (CCAs) work, who is eligible and which sector associations hold a CCA.
T4 exemption allows you to treat waste to reduce its volume for transport to another site for reuse, recycling or to make handling easier.
Get consent to introduce (site permit) or remove fish (excluding fish farms): application forms and rules.
This exemption allows you to temporarily store waste you have produced when working away from your normal business premises.
Boat registration charges for the River Thames.
Facilities for boaters at Environment Agency lock sites on the non-tidal River Thames and the River Kennet.
Use this service to view and share your licence information and to submit abstraction returns. Find out about water abstraction alerts.
When the MCP is exempt from meeting emission limit values (ELVs), which ELVs apply and the deadlines for meeting them.
What to include in your fire prevention plan, the fire prevention measures you must put in place, a template for your plan and examples of alternative measures.
When to use hydrological and hydraulic modelling as part of a flood risk assessment for a planning application, and the expected standards.
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