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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.
How to comply with your permit, including maintenance, record keeping and pollution reporting requirements.
Standard rules to operate a household, commercial and industrial waste transfer station. These rules also allow the storage of asbestos, batteries, cable and waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE).
Environment Agency regulatory position on temporary discharges of uncontaminated water from excavations to surface water without a water discharge activity permit.
Where to deposit non-hazardous dredging spoil, how to treat it, and the quantities allowed under a D1 waste exemption.
If you operate a medium combustion plant (MCP) or a generator, find out if you need to meet MCP and specified generator regulations.
How to assess the risks to groundwater for treated effluent discharges.
How to prepare and plan for the decommissioning of sites permitted for radioactive substances activities.
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.
T12 exemption allows you to sort, repair, refurbish or dismantle waste for reuse or recovery.
Check if you operate a materials facility. Understand your sampling, measuring, recording and reporting requirements.
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.
S3 waste exemption lets you store sewage sludge at a site where it will be used in accordance with the Sludge (Use in Agriculture) Regulations 1989.
Standard rules for research and development activities which support products and processes associated with permitted activities at Part A(1) installations.
Use this guide to understand when your waste water discharge is classed as domestic sewage.
How to develop a management system for carrying out flood risk activities under an environmental permit.
The conditions that must be met for a non-nuclear radioactive substances activity permit to be surrendered.
Find out about Compliance Assessment Reports, assessments, inspections and permit reviews, and what the Environment Agency will do if you do not follow the rules.
Standard rules for a household waste recycling centre.
T10 exemption allows small organisations, such as charities, to sort recyclable waste so that it can be recovered.
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