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How to request a longer timetable for the Environment Agency to assess if your proposal can be ‘duly made’.
Guidance on how to do detailed air quality modelling for specified generators.
How to apply to the Environment Agency to trade water abstraction rights with another party.
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.
The emission limit values (ELVs) and air quality standards specified generators must meet, including the deadlines for complying.
Advice on indicative standards of operation and environmental performance for industrial sectors.
The convictions you must declare when you apply for a new permit or to transfer a permit.
Check if you need an environmental permit for a closed loop ground source heating and cooling system.
View the final permit decisions that the Environment Agency has made on applications for environmental permits for May 2025
T32 exemption allows you to treat non-hazardous pesticide washings in a biobed or biofilter.
U16 exemption allows you to reuse the parts from depolluted end-of-life vehicles in other vehicles.
The Environment Agency has provided these low risk waste positions (LRWPs) for waste operations that it considers may be suitable for an exemption.
How to meet the requirements of using mobile plant for landspreading waste to provide agricultural benefit or ecological improvement.
The monitoring certification scheme (MCERTS) standard that applies to holders of environmental permits who must monitor liquid flow (sewage or trade effluent).
Guidance on dredging and the removal of silt and sand from main rivers as a flood risk activity under the Environmental Permitting Regulations.
This guide is for anyone who dredges inland waterways and wants to deposit the dredged waste on land. It does not apply to hydrodynamic dredging or waste disposal at sea.
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…
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can store and treat hazardous waste cable without the correct waste codes on your permit or exemption.
Environment Agency's regulation of Hinkley Point, about EDF’s appeal, how you can find out about environmental permits and other activities at Hinkley Point.
How businesses in England can manage septic tank sludges and other wastes from non-mains domestic sewage systems.
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