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Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can store and shred electronic storage media containing confidential or sensitive material for data security and destruction only without an environmental permit.
Standard rules to allow the operator to undertake mining waste operations on the site of a mine or quarry.
Guidance on how land and groundwater should be protected at permitted facilities.
This document details the requirements for a laboratory undertaking the chemical testing of soil and the procurer of analytical services to the MCERTS performance standard.
This document contains the performance standards and test procedures for flowmeters used for the monitoring of raw water abstraction, treated wastewater discharges from industrial processes, ultraviolet disinfection processe…
This Good Practice Guide (GPG) has been developed by Jacobs on behalf of the NDA to identify and facilitate consistent application of good practice within the nuclear industry regarding the characterisation of solid radioact…
Design, construction and quality assurance of earthworks in landfill engineering.
D4 exemption allows you to deposit diseased crops where they were grown, when a Plant Health Notice has been issued, to reduce the risk of spreading plant diseases or pests.
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.
T26 exemption allows small-scale treatment of waste from kitchens using a wormery to produce compost, for use as fertiliser or soil conditioner.
The Low Level Waste Repository in Cumbria is the UK’s principal facility for the disposal of low level radioactive waste.
Standard rules SR2009 No 2: low impact part A installation.
Standard rules for the storage and use of up to 100ktd of waste for construction (existing permits only).
For facilities with a treatment capacity of no more than 75 tonnes a day that accept no more than 35,000 tonnes a year.
Environment Agency regulatory position allowing operators time to get additional technical competence qualifications.
Environment Agency regulatory position on using BSI PAS 100 or PAS 110 compliant material which does not meet the plastics limit in the relevant resource framework.
Tool to assist groundwater risk assessment for treated effluent discharges to infiltration systems.
This document sets out principles and guidance for the assessment of ionising radiation doses to the public from authorised discharges.
This guidance is intended to help the regulator, the regulated community, and others with an interest in water discharge activities.
Environment Agency regulatory position on dewatering bentonite slurry waste produced by piling works or the construction of retaining and containment walls.
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