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Nuclear site radioactive substances regulation (RSR), when you need a permit, how to apply, how to change (vary), transfer or surrender your permit
Standard rules for discharges to ground with a daily volume of greater than 2 but no more than 5 cubic metres per day.
Standard rules to operate a mobile plant for the treatment of soils and contaminated material, substances or products.
Guidance on how to do detailed air quality modelling for specified generators.
For a Part A installation with an anaerobic digestion treatment capacity of over 100 tonnes of waste, or waste and non-waste each day accepting no more than 100,000 tonnes each year.
Standard rules for a waste transfer station accepting construction, demolition and excavation waste.
View the permit issued for Pear Tree Lane Poultry Farm, Louth under the Industrial Emissions Directive.
U13 exemption allows you to spread cut plant material at the place of production for weed suppression or to provide nutrients to the soil.
How to comply with emission limit values (ELVs) for hydrogen combustion plant greater than 1 megawatt thermal input (MWth).
Standard rules for discharges to surface water of secondary treated domestic sewage with a maximum daily volume between 5 and 20 cubic metres per day.
Standard rules to operate a vehicle storage depollution and dismantling authorised treatment facility.
The emission limit values (ELVs) and air quality standards specified generators must meet, including the deadlines for complying.
The Environment Agency has provided these low risk waste positions (LRWPs) for waste operations that it considers may be suitable for an exemption.
U9 exemption allows you to use waste in place of raw materials to manufacture a finished product.
T8 exemption allows you to treat small amounts of waste end-of-life tyres for recovery by baling, shredding, peeling, shaving or granulating.
T20 exemption allows you to treat certain waste at water treatment works to reduce the volume for transport, or to make it easier to handle for waste recovery.
How to request a longer timetable for the Environment Agency to assess if your proposal can be ‘duly made’.
The environmental permit, consent and licence you may need before you install a ground source or surface water source heating or cooling system.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can store, treat and use asphalt waste without an environmental permit.
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