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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.
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 complete waste or materials facility 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.
U4 exemption allows you to use waste plant material or untreated wood as fuel in a small appliance to produce heat or power.
Check if you need to do a risk assessment, how to do a risk assessment, and how the Environment Agency can help you.
Standard rules to operate a mobile plant for the treatment of soils and contaminated material, substances or products.
How to deal with waste, including hazardous waste, and prevent pollution.
T10 exemption allows small organisations, such as charities, to sort recyclable waste so that it can be recovered.
You can use the pre-application advice service to make sure your permit application is correct.
Find out if your groundwater discharges are extremely low risk so don’t need an environmental permit or exemption.
Types of waste and maximum amounts you can use for spreading as mulch to benefit land around trees, bushes or plants, under U12 waste exemption.
What you need to provide to the Environment Agency if you want them to consider allowing your proposed research or trial.
How to apply for an environmental permit if you rear pigs and poultry intensively, including how to comply with and change the permit.
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.
How to assess the risks to groundwater for treated effluent discharges.
How to develop a management system for carrying out flood risk activities under an environmental permit.
The conditions that new cemetery developments, or new extensions of a cemetery, can operate under without needing an environmental permit.
U13 exemption allows you to spread cut plant material at the place of production for weed suppression or to provide nutrients to the soil.
D3 exemption allows the burial of waste from a portable toilet, to avoid long-distance transportation of small quantities of waste to sewage treatment works.
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