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What best available techniques are, when you must follow them, how to propose alternatives and how to refer to them in your application.
How to carry out a groundwater risk assessment as part of an application for an environmental permit.
Environment Agency regulatory position on temporary discharges of uncontaminated water from excavations to surface water without a water discharge activity permit.
T9 exemption allows you to treat scrap metal for handling or recovery by sorting, grading, shearing by manual feed, baling, crushing or cutting with handheld equipment.
U8 exemption allows you to recycle waste that does not need treating before being used. This helps reduce the use of virgin materials.
You can temporarily store any waste at the place of production before it’s collected. You do not need to register this exemption.
Check if you need to do a risk assessment, how to do a risk assessment, and how the Environment Agency can help you.
How to apply for standard rules and bespoke permits for A1 installations, including low impact installations.
T23 exemption allows you to compost small volumes of vegetation, cardboard and food waste to spread on soil to add nutrients or improve the structure.
If you operate a medium combustion plant (MCP) or a generator, find out if you need to meet MCP and specified generator regulations.
What you must do to manage odour when you apply for, change (vary) or hold an environmental permit.
Appropriate measures for permitted waste management facilities that handle organic waste, also known as biowaste.
How UK environment agencies assess noise, legal requirements for managing noise, noise impact assessments and noise management plans. This replaces H3 guidance.
T6 exemption allows you to chip, shred, pulverise or cut waste wood and plant matter to make it suitable for a specific purpose.
The types of permit available, how much they cost and how to apply for your environmental permit.
How to complete waste returns and deadlines for submission.
This guidance explains the standards (appropriate measures) that are relevant to regulated facilities with an environmental permit to treat or transfer all types of WEEE.
How to comply with your permit, including maintenance, record keeping and pollution reporting requirements.
When the MCP is exempt from meeting emission limit values (ELVs), which ELVs apply and the deadlines for meeting them.
When you need consent or permit to discharge from water supply assets to surface waters. How to carry out a risk assessment and how to apply.
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