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How to request a longer timetable for the Environment Agency to assess if your proposal can be ‘duly made’.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can carry out a small scale remediation scheme or trial to treat contaminated soil and groundwater.
Advice on indicative standards of operation and environmental performance for industrial sectors.
Standard rules to allow the operator to undertake mining waste operations on the site of a mine or quarry.
This guidance specifies the standards for the continuous monitoring and sampling of stack emissions.
The emission limit values (ELVs) and air quality standards specified generators must meet, including the deadlines for complying.
View the final permit decisions that the Environment Agency has made on applications for environmental permits for July 2025
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can store and treat hazardous waste cable without the correct waste codes on your permit or exemption.
How businesses in England can manage septic tank sludges and other wastes from non-mains domestic sewage systems.
T15 exemption allows you to treat aerosol cans by puncturing or crushing them using specialist treatment equipment, so the metal can be recovered.
The Environment Agency has provided these low risk waste positions (LRWPs) for waste operations that it considers may be suitable for an exemption.
Guidance on how land and groundwater should be protected at permitted facilities.
Environment Agency regulatory position on the use of additional waste codes to store, treat or spread sewage sludge and septic tank sludge to land.
T21 exemption allows you to recover wastes such as sewage grits, screenings and sewage sludge at a waste water treatment works.
Find out the compliance limits for waste water treatment works (WWTW), and how to treat and monitor discharges to meet permit conditions.
How to meet the requirements of using mobile plant for landspreading waste to provide agricultural benefit or ecological improvement.
How the Environment Agency regulates the different types of nuclear sites and protects people and the environment.
T13 exemption allows you to recover waste food by decanting or unwrapping it and recovering the packaging.
Guidance on how to do detailed air quality modelling for specified generators.
SR2015 No 16: metal recycling site.
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