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Storing contaminated waste waters from gas pipelines: RPS 100

Environment Agency enforcement position on when you can store contaminated waste waters from gas pipelines without an environmental permit.

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Environment Agency
Published
22 June 2017
Last updated
19 January 2023 — See all updates

Applies to England

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Storing contaminated waste waters from gas pipelines: RPS 100

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This regulatory position statement (RPS) does not change your legal requirement to have an environmental permit for a waste operation when you store more than 1,000 litres of contaminated waste waters removed from gas pipelines.

However, the Environment Agency will not normally take enforcement action when you do this without an environmental permit if you comply with the requirements in this RPS.

This enforcement position does not apply to any other legal requirements.

Updates to this page

Published 22 June 2017
Last updated 19 January 2023 + show all updates

  1. Extended this regulatory position statement (RPS) - it will be reviewed again by 15 December 2025. Clarified when the RPS applies and how to comply with it.

  2. We have extended the expiry date of this RPS until September 2022.

  3. First published.

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