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How to request a longer timetable for the Environment Agency to assess if your proposal can be ‘duly made’.
This guidance explains the standards (appropriate measures) for facilities with an environmental permit to mechanically treat metal waste in shredders.
How to meet the requirements of using mobile plant for landspreading waste to provide agricultural benefit or ecological improvement.
Nuclear site radioactive substances regulation (RSR), when you need a permit, how to apply, how to change (vary), transfer or surrender your permit
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 research and development activities which support products and processes associated with permitted activities at Part A(1) installations.
What to do during the aftercare phase and what to include in an application to surrender your permit.
How to develop and maintain a plan for managing radioactive wastes created and disposed of by radioactive substances activity permit holders.
The emission limit values (ELVs) and air quality standards specified generators must meet, including the deadlines for complying.
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.
If you are developing a site within a coalfield area you may need to give additional consideration to the proposed drainage and infiltration.
Use this tool to find out if you need to apply for a simple bespoke or complex bespoke medium combustion plant permit.
Standard rules for the storage of asbestos waste.
How operators of nuclear sites in England and Wales should design and carry out an environmental radiological monitoring programme as required by a radioactive substances activity permit. This guidance is also for regulators…
For facilities with a treatment capacity of less than 100 tonnes each day and accepting no more than 35,000 tonnes on site each year.
Standard rules to allow you to operate a metal recycling and waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) authorised treatment facility at a specified location.
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.
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 work out charges for water abstraction and impounding licences.
How to submit an appropriate environmental permit application for a deposit for recovery operation and what to include in a waste recovery plan.
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