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Advice on indicative standards of operation and environmental performance for industrial sectors.
Standard rules for discharges to surface water of 5 cubic metres per day using equipment that does not conform to the British Standard or where the receiving watercourse does not always have flow, or both.
Environment Agency regulatory position on installing small-scale equipment for monitoring in a river and for associated equipment such as instrument cabinets located alongside.
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 discharges from an open loop ground source heating and cooling system. Then register this exemption.
Nuclear site radioactive substances regulation (RSR), when you need a permit, how to apply, how to change (vary), transfer or surrender your permit
How to meet the requirements of using mobile plant for landspreading waste to provide agricultural benefit or ecological improvement.
For a facility with a treatment capacity of less than 100 tonnes of waste, or a combination of waste and non-waste each day accepting no more than 35,000 tonnes each year.
View the application submitted by Net Zero Teesside Power Limited for Net Zero Teesside CCUS Project, Redcar.
View the application submitted by Sellafield Limited for Sellafield Site, Cumbria.
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.
When and how to register if you are discharging small quantities of substances for scientific purposes as part of a groundwater tracer test or remediation scheme.
The types of permit available, how much they cost and how to apply for your environmental 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 allow storage of wastes to be used in land treatment.
Standard rules to operate an asbestos waste transfer station.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can carry out a small scale remediation scheme or trial to treat contaminated soil and groundwater.
MCERTS standard specifying the minimum requirements for installing and using event duration monitors (EDMs) required by an environmental permit.
The emission limit values (ELVs) and air quality standards specified generators must meet, including the deadlines for complying.
What you must do to carry out a risk assessment if you're a farmer applying for a bespoke permit for intensive farming.
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