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Calculate the annual nitrogen and phosphorus emissions from your livestock. Report the data to the Environment Agency.
This exemption allows you to temporarily store waste at a collection point before recovering or disposing of the waste elsewhere.
What to include in your fire prevention plan, the fire prevention measures you must put in place, a template for your plan and examples of alternative measures.
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.
Standard rules for a household waste recycling centre.
Check if you operate a materials facility. Understand your sampling, measuring, recording and reporting requirements.
Use this guide to understand when your waste water discharge is classed as domestic sewage.
How to comply with your permit, including maintenance, record keeping and pollution reporting requirements.
How to assess the risks to groundwater for treated effluent discharges.
How UK environment agencies assess noise, legal requirements for managing noise, noise impact assessments and noise management plans. This replaces H3 guidance.
Non-nuclear radioactive substances regulation (RSR), when you need a permit, types of permits, how to apply, change (vary), transfer or surrender your permit.
Find out if your groundwater discharges are extremely low risk so don’t need an environmental permit or exemption.
T1 waste exemption allows you to treat waste packaging so it can be reused in its original form or becomes clean waste suitable for recycling.
The environmental permit, consent and licence you may need before you install a ground source or surface water source heating or cooling system.
U4 exemption allows you to use waste plant material or untreated wood as fuel in a small appliance to produce heat or power.
How to choose a waste recovery or disposal method and assess its risks when applying for or changing your bespoke environmental permit.
How to get extra support for projects in England that require a complex range of environmental permits and licences.
Find out what you must include in an air dispersion modelling report to get an environmental permit.
D6 exemption allows you to dispose of small amounts of specific waste that have been produced on site in an incinerator.
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