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This index will help you choose an appropriate periodic monitoring technique and standard for monitoring stack emissions to air (formerly part of M2).
Find out if your groundwater discharges are extremely low risk so don’t need an environmental permit or exemption.
How to apply for an environmental permit if you rear pigs and poultry intensively, including how to comply with and change the permit.
How to apply to the Environment Agency to trade water abstraction rights with another party.
D6 exemption allows you to dispose of small amounts of specific waste that have been produced on site in an incinerator.
What you need to provide to the Environment Agency if you want them to consider allowing your proposed research or trial.
How to get extra support for projects in England that require a complex range of environmental permits and licences.
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.
How to choose a waste recovery or disposal method and assess its risks when applying for or changing your bespoke environmental permit.
This guidance explains the appropriate measures that apply to regulated facilities permitted to treat or transfer separate collections of waste batteries.
This guidance explains the standards (appropriate measures) for facilities with an environmental permit to mechanically treat metal waste in shredders.
U11 exemption lets you spread waste on non-agricultural land to improve soil, instead of using manufactured fertilisers or virgin materials.
T21 exemption allows you to recover wastes such as sewage grits, screenings and sewage sludge at a waste water treatment works.
02 wastes are from agriculture, horticulture, aquaculture, forestry, hunting and fishing, food preparation and processing. Your permit lists the 02 waste codes you can use. You must follow the guidance given in the Before y…
Standard rules to operate a mobile plant for the treatment of soils and contaminated material, substances or products.
How UK environment agencies assess noise, legal requirements for managing noise, noise impact assessments and noise management plans. This replaces H3 guidance.
You can use these emission factors to quantify the amount of ammonia emitted from your permitted pig or poultry operations.
How to deal with waste, including hazardous waste, and prevent pollution.
How to submit an appropriate environmental permit application for a landfill site, and how to carry out your activities to comply with your permit.
Standard rules to use waste in a deposit for recovery operations (construction, reclamation, restoration or improvement of land other than by mobile plant).
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