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Standard rules and generic risk assessment for the management of onshore oil exploration.
Standard rules to store, or store and treat waste paper, cardboard and plastic for the purpose of recovery.
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.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can store waste incapacitant sprays without an environmental permit.
Environment Agency regulatory position on storing and drying waste wood before burning in a Part B co-incinerator.
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.
Environment Agency regulatory position on storing waste from empty properties cleared by local authorities or housing associations.
Environment Agency enforcement position on when you can use a backup flare to burn biogas from exempt anaerobic digestion plants.
Environment Agency enforcement position on when waste collection authorities can operate temporary collection sites without an environmental permit.
About Radioactive Substances Compliance Assessment Reports, assessments and inspections and what the Environment Agency will do if you do not follow the rules.
European and UK regulations govern how you can move radioactive waste or spent nuclear fuel into or out of the country.
Decommissioning the UK’s fleet of Advanced Gas-cooled Reactors (AGR).
Understand the European Community (EC) Directive 2006/66/EC on batteries and accumulators and waste batteries and accumulators.
How to meet the rules in your permit if you use mobile plant to spread waste to land for agricultural benefit or ecological improvement.
This document provides the performance standards for open path ambient air quality monitoring systems.
How beaches near Sellafield are monitored, the monitoring results and how risks to the public are minimised.
Guidance on monitoring the concentration of trace components in raw landfill gas at permitted or licenced landfill sites.
Advanced manufacturing and materials (AMM) Phase 2 is a £20 million investment programme focusing on increasing the manufacturing or technology readiness levels of technologies.
Sets out end of waste criteria for the production and use of processed fuel oil from waste lubricating oil.
Environment Agency enforcement position on the registration of small producers under the Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging Waste) Regulations 2007 as amended.
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