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How to request a longer timetable for the Environment Agency to assess if your proposal can be ‘duly made’.
Information you must submit to the Environment Agency in a noise impact assessment that uses computer modelling or spreadsheet calculations.
Nuclear site radioactive substances regulation (RSR), when you need a permit, how to apply, how to change (vary), transfer or surrender your permit
Advice on indicative standards of operation and environmental performance for industrial sectors.
How and when to assess the risks of noise and vibration associated with your environmental permit application, with guidance on using the noise advisory tool.
Guidance to help organisations choose a monitoring approach for stack emissions to air that meets Environment Agency and MCERTS requirements (formerly part of M2).
How to get support for nature projects that require a range of environmental permits and licences.
Environment Agency regulatory position on low risk impounding activities.
The monitoring certification scheme (MCERTS) standard that applies to holders of environmental permits who must monitor liquid flow (sewage or trade effluent).
Environment Agency regulatory position on when a person who is authorised under the Misuse of Drugs Regulations can store, sort and denature controlled drugs that have become waste, at another place.
Check if you're exempt from needing an environmental permit for a new closed loop ground source heating and cooling system.
For operators of a vehicle storage, depollution and dismantling (authorised treatment) facility accepting no more than 750 tonnes of waste vehicles a year.
How to submit an appropriate environmental permit application for a deposit for recovery operation and what to include in a waste recovery plan.
Treating and disposing of non-hazardous farm waste, sending to landfill, burying waste, incinerating fallen stock and recycling waste fuel oil.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you cannot comply with best available techniques associated emission limits (BAT-AELs) for certain substances discharged to sewer at chemical waste treatment installations.
When you're exempt from needing an environmental permit for letting vegetation cuttings fall into rivers, streams, lakes and canals.
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.
Emerging techniques on how to prevent or minimise the environmental impacts of post-combustion carbon dioxide capture.
Standard rules to allow you to operate a metal recycling site and a vehicle depollution and dismantling facility at a specified location.
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.
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