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Find out about flood risk activity exemptions, which used to need flood defence consent, and how to register them.
How to develop a management system and keep it up to date so that you can carry out activities under an environmental permit.
When you need to do an environmental risk assessment, when the Environment Agency will do it for you, and how to do a risk assessment.
T6 exemption allows you to chip, shred, pulverise or cut waste wood and plant matter to make it suitable for a specific purpose.
S1 waste exemption lets you store certain waste in secure containers at a site separate to where it was produced, before transporting to another site for recovery.
T4 exemption allows you to treat waste to reduce its volume for transport to another site for reuse, recycling or to make handling easier.
Find out if and by when you need to apply for a medium combustion plant directive (MCPD) environmental permit to meet air quality requirements.
How you must control and monitor emissions from your activities that may cause pollution.
How the Environment Agency charges for activities that need an environmental permit and the charges you must pay.
U10 exemption allows you to spread specific waste on agricultural land to replace manufactured fertilisers or virgin materials (such as lime) to improve or maintain soil.
How to complete waste or materials facility returns, and deadlines for submission.
U8 exemption allows you to use waste materials (that do not need treating) for a specific purpose to reduce the use of virgin or non-waste materials.
This guidance explains the appropriate measures that regulated facilities permitted to store, treat or transfer (or both) non-hazardous and inert waste should consider.
Explains the definition of ‘regulated facility’ and how they are grouped into classes.
Find out if and by when you need to apply for a specified generator environmental permit to meet air quality requirements.
The types of work on or near a main river or sea defence that don't need an environmental permit so are excluded from the regulations.
What best available techniques are, when you must follow them, how to propose alternatives and how to refer to them in your application.
This exemption allows you to temporarily store waste you have produced when working away from your normal business premises.
You can temporarily store any waste at the place of production before it’s collected. You do not need to register this exemption.
Where to deposit non-hazardous dredging spoil, how to treat it, and the quantities allowed under a D1 waste exemption.
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