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The fundamental objective of radioactive substances regulation and the 10 regulatory principles we apply when carrying out our work.
This index will help you choose an appropriate periodic monitoring technique and standard for monitoring stack emissions to air (formerly part of M2).
These are the maximum uncertainty values to assess whether periodic measurement results comply with emission limit values in environmental permits (formerly part of M2).
U9 exemption allows you to use waste in place of raw materials to manufacture a finished product.
For facilities with a treatment capacity of less than 100 tonnes each day and accepting no more than 35,000 tonnes on site each year.
Standard rules to capture, treat and store biogas from lagoons and tanks.
Standard rules for discharges to ground of 1.5 cubic metres per day via a shallow infiltration system not built to British Standard BS6297.
How to avoid causing groundwater pollution when developing cemeteries for burying human remains.
T2 exemption allows you to clean waste clothes and textiles to recover them for reuse or recycling.
About Radioactive Substances Compliance Assessment Reports, assessments and inspections and what the Environment Agency will do if you do not follow the rules.
Standard rules for the treatment of waste wood.
Standard rules for unbound incinerator bottom ash aggregate (IBAA) in construction as a deposit for recovery operation.
Environment Agency regulatory position on storing chemical toilet waste, and other sewage related wastes, without an environmental permit.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can store and treat hazardous waste cable without the correct waste codes on your permit or exemption.
Environment Agency regulatory position on the use of additional waste codes to store, treat or spread sewage sludge and septic tank sludge to land.
View the application submitted by Avonmouth Data Centre Limited for Avonmouth Data Centre, Bristol.
Environment Agency regulatory position for waste collection authorities, or contracted operators working on their behalf, operating temporary collection sites.
How the Environment Agency uses your personal information in services to support environmental permitting.
How businesses in England can manage septic tank sludges and other wastes from non-mains domestic sewage systems.
Environment Agency regulatory position on scattering or burying pet ash at a pet cemetery which is registered with the Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA).
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