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How to apply to the Generic Design Assessment (GDA) if you want to submit a nuclear power plant design.
Guidance to developers of geological disposal facilities for solid radioactive waste.
This document sets out the performance standard for indicative ambient dust monitors.
End of waste criteria for the production of PFA and FBA for use in bound and grout applications in specified construction and manufacturing uses.
End of waste criteria for the production and use of tyre-derived rubber materials.
How to comply with your EPR RSR environmental permit open sources radioactive waste non-nuclear premises.
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 for using waste in construction (existing permits only).
Standard rules to operate metal recycling sites.
Standard rules for part A installation: capacity more than 75 tonnes per day.
For a Part A installation with an anaerobic digestion capacity of over 100 tonnes of waste, or a combination of waste and non-waste each day and accepting no more than 100,000 tonnes per year.
Standard rules to capture, treat and store biogas from lagoons and tanks.
Environment Agency regulatory position on the storage and treatment of waste filter bed media at water and waste water treatment works.
Environment Agency regulatory position on the capture, treatment, storage and use of carbon dioxide (CO2) from anaerobic digestion (AD) of waste.
Environment Agency regulatory position on using whole waste tyres in building construction, in escape ladders in water storage reservoirs, for fendering systems and planters, and as crash protection barriers.
Environment Agency’s progress on revising the waste quality protocols.
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.
How to apply to become an authorised ship recycling facility and operate legally under the approval.
Environment Agency regulatory position on accepting metal shredder residues and post shredder treatment residues for disposal at landfill for non-hazardous waste.
This guidance is to understand the European Community (EC) Directive 2006/12/EC on waste, as it relates to permitting waste operations in England and Wales.
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