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What best available techniques are, when you must follow them, how to propose alternatives and how to refer to them in your application.
You can report serious concerns about your employer to us, if you suspect wrongdoing in an area we regulate.
Find out how to express the mass of a fluorinated greenhouse gas (F gas) in terms of carbon dioxide equivalent to comply with regulations on F gases.
How to change, revoke or transfer your licence, including if the licence holder dies or becomes bankrupt and find out when changes can be enforced.
Check if you need to do a risk assessment, how to do a risk assessment, and how the Environment Agency can help you.
When the MCP is exempt from meeting emission limit values (ELVs), which ELVs apply and the deadlines for meeting them.
T5 exemption allows you to temporarily treat waste on a small scale to produce aggregate or soil at a particular location, such as a construction or demolition site.
T1 waste exemption allows you to treat waste packaging so it can be reused in its original form or becomes clean waste suitable for recycling.
Environment Agency enforcement position on temporary discharges of uncontaminated water from excavations to surface water without a water discharge activity permit.
If you impound water, or plan to, you may need to apply for an impounding licence.
How to register a reservoir, appoint a panel engineer, produce a flood plan, prepare an inspection information pack and report an incident.
Get consent to introduce (site permit) or remove fish (excluding fish farms): application forms and rules.
How the Environment Agency carries out government policy for groundwater and adopts a risk-based approach where legislation allows.
How to apply for accreditation, comply with your accreditation and packaging waste technical information.
Apply to become an approved authorised treatment facility (AATF) and how to operate legally under the approval.
Appropriate measures for permitted waste management facilities that handle organic waste, also known as biowaste.
You can use the pre-application advice service to make sure your permit application is correct.
Common waste codes for batteries, lightbulbs and electrical devices.
End of waste criteria for the production and use of aggregates from inert waste.
Plan for climate change impacts to and from your site. How to integrate climate change adaptation into your management system under an environmental permit.
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