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Emerging techniques on how to prevent or minimise the environmental impacts of hydrogen production by electrolysis of water.
Standard rules and generic risk assessment for tranche B specified generator for base load operation
How to assess the impact of a flood risk activity and decide whether it supports the objectives of your local River Basin Management Plan.
Register exemptions for waste activity along a stretch of road, railway, river or any other linear network.
Emerging techniques on how to prevent or minimise the environmental impacts of post-combustion carbon dioxide capture.
Standard rules to allow the operator to undertake mining waste operations on the site of a mine or quarry.
Find out the compliance limits for waste water treatment works (WWTW), and how to treat and monitor discharges to meet permit conditions.
Environment Agency regulatory position on the use of manufactured topsoil made from waste.
T8 exemption allows you to treat small amounts of waste end-of-life tyres for recovery by baling, shredding, peeling, shaving or granulating.
T20 exemption allows you to treat certain waste at water treatment works to reduce the volume for transport, or to make it easier to handle for waste recovery.
T15 exemption allows you to treat aerosol cans by puncturing or crushing them using specialist treatment equipment, so the metal can be recovered.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can store, treat and use asphalt waste without an environmental permit.
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 secondary treated domestic sewage with a maximum daily volume between 5 and 20 cubic metres per day.
D5 exemption allows you to deposit and store waste samples when required to comply with or enforce specified regulations, or before testing and analysis for research.
Environment Agency regulatory position on low risk impounding activities.
Guidance on dredging and the removal of silt and sand from main rivers as a flood risk activity under the Environmental Permitting Regulations.
U3 exemption allows groups such as schools, colleges and theatres to use waste, such as offcuts of wood, for creative installations.
How to request a longer timetable for the Environment Agency to assess if your proposal can be ‘duly made’.
Standard rules to allow you to operate a vehicle depollution and dismantling facility at a specified location.
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