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From:: Environment Agency, Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, and Welsh Government

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Check if you need an environmental permit
Change, transfer or cancel your environmental permit
How you'll be regulated: environmental permits
Standard rules: environmental permitting
Risk assessments for your environmental permit
Environmental permitting charges scheme: guidance from April 2014
Changes to your Flood Defence Consent after 6 April 2016
Fire prevention plans: environmental permits

Application forms

Environmental permit application form: standard permit, water discharge
Environmental permit application form: new bespoke permit
Environmental permit application form: standard permit, installations, mining waste or waste operation
Land and groundwater remediation deployment form
Application for an environmental permit part F3: charging for flood risk activities and declarations
Application for an environmental permit part B11: standard rules permit for flood risk activities
Application for an environmental permit: part B10 flood risk activities

Check on an application

Access the public register for environmental information
Environmental permitting: notices of applications made
Industrial Emissions Directive (IED): environmental permits issued

Waste permit guidance

Waste: environmental permits
Waste exemptions: storing waste
Waste exemptions: treating waste
Waste exemptions: disposing of waste
Waste exemptions: using waste
Register your waste exemptions: environmental permits (England)
Waste recovery plans and permits
Waste acceptance procedures for waste recovery on land
Waste recovery engineering: create a construction quality plan

A1 installations permit guidance

A1 installations: environmental permits
Best available techniques: environmental permits

Water permit guidance

Discharges to surface water and groundwater: environmental permits
Open-loop heat pump systems: permits, consents and licences
Tracer tests and remediation schemes: environmental permit exemption
Cutting vegetation in inland freshwater: environmental permit exemption
Dewatering building sites and other excavations: environmental permits
Small sewage discharges in England: general binding rules
Septic tanks and treatment plants: permits and general binding rules

Radioactive substances permit guidance

Radioactive substances regulation (RSR) for non-nuclear sites
Radioactive substances regulation for nuclear sites
RSR: Management arrangements for nuclear sites

Flood risk activities

Flood risk activities: environmental permits
Register your flood risk activity exemption: environmental permits
Flood risk activity risk assessment for your environmental permits
Develop a management system: environmental permits for flood risk activity
Changes to your Flood Defence Consent after 6 April 2016
Exempt flood risk activities: environmental permittings
Standard rules: environmental permitting

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