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How to comply with your environmental permit: technical guidance for managing clinical waste.
Guidance for individuals who are registered on the MCERTS personnel competency scheme for manual stack emissions monitoring.
Guidance on how we assess the quality of your monitoring procedures through an operator monitoring assessment (OMA) and what you can do to prepare.
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).
For a Part A installation with a biological treatment capacity exceeding 100 tonnes each day, accepting no more than 500,000 tonnes a year.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can store, treat and use waste water containing suspended solids at construction sites.
U14 exemption allows you to mix ash back into the soil to return some of the nutrients from the burnt crops and vegetation.
U2 exemption allows you to use a small number of end-of-life tyre bales in construction.
View the permit issued for Samlesbury Aerodrome, Balderstone under the Industrial Emissions Directive.
The Environment Agency has provided these low risk waste positions (LRWPs) for waste operations that it considers may be suitable for an exemption.
For operators of a small metal recycling facility accepting no more than 5,000 tonnes of waste each year with no more than 100 tonnes on site at any one time.
Standard rules to store, or store and treat end-of-life tyres for the purpose of waste recovery.
The environmental permits and permissions you need for onshore oil and gas exploration and extraction in England.
How the Environment Agency regulates discharges and radioactive waste disposals from Sellafield through environmental permitting.
Environment Agency regulatory position on installing and using a single closed loop ground source heating and cooling system supplying residential premises.
Standard rules and generic risk assessment for Tranche B Specified Generator with individual unit capacity <1-5MWth.
Standard rules and generic risk assessment for Tranche B Specified Generator with individual unit capacity <1-20MWth of gas or abated diesel engines operated less than 500 hours a year.
Environment Agency regulatory position on storing lead acid vehicle batteries, cable and gas cylinders at HWRCs when the correct waste codes are not in your permit.
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