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How the Environment Agency regulates the different types of nuclear sites and protects people and the environment.
T15 exemption allows you to treat aerosol cans by puncturing or crushing them using specialist treatment equipment, so the metal can be recovered.
Standard rules for the treatment of waste wood.
How the Environment Agency sets and assesses discharge quality numeric limits in environmental permits.
Guidance on how we assess the quality of your monitoring procedures through an operator monitoring assessment (OMA) and what you can do to prepare.
Spreading slurry and milk on agricultural land: Environment Agency advice in exceptional circumstances such as extreme weather.
The monitoring, record keeping and reporting you must do and how you’ll be regulated.
How to apply to the Environment Agency to trade water abstraction rights with another party.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can store and treat hazardous waste cable without the correct waste codes on your permit or exemption.
Standard rules to allow you to operate a metal recycling site at a specified location.
Check what activities and locations apply to the byelaws.
Environment Agency regulatory position on installing small-scale equipment for monitoring in a river and for associated equipment such as instrument cabinets located alongside.
Use the Industrial Emissions Directive (IED) cost-benefit analysis tool to inform your application for a derogation from the requirements of the IED.
An appeal against the Environment Agency's decision to vary a permit for the treatment of contaminated soils with asbestos at Maw Green Landfill, Maw Green Road, Coppenhall, Crewe, Cheshire, CW1 5NG
Guidance on dredging and the removal of silt and sand from main rivers as a flood risk activity under the Environmental Permitting Regulations.
Find out the energy efficiency requirements you must comply with, and how to comply, to operate under an environmental permit.
If you are developing a site within a coalfield area you may need to give additional consideration to the proposed drainage and infiltration.
T25 exemption allows you to treat food and other biodegradable waste by anaerobic digestion to produce digestate for use as fertiliser, and burn the resulting biogas.
Advice on indicative standards of operation and environmental performance for industrial sectors.
Environment Agency regulatory position on the use of manufactured topsoil made from waste.
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