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How the Environment Agency and its partners will maintain and upgrade flood defences in the Thames Estuary to adapt to rising sea levels.
Non-nuclear radioactive substances regulation (RSR), when you need a permit, types of permits, how to apply, change (vary), transfer or surrender your permit.
Qualification, compliance and notification requirements for ESOS.
Guidance explaining the use of soil guideline values (SGV) to asses the long-term exposure of chemicals in soil on human health.
Explains what is prohibited, how to describe and classify it and the duty to separate mixed waste.
The design requirements that you need to meet in your environmental permit application and how to comply with your permit.
These are appropriate measures for emissions control for a regulated facility permitted to store, treat or transfer (or both) non-hazardous and inert waste.
Apply to be a waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) producer compliance scheme and operate legally under your approval.
Find out if your groundwater discharges are extremely low risk so don’t need an environmental permit or exemption.
Guidance to help organisations choose a monitoring approach for stack emissions to air that meets Environment Agency and MCERTS requirements (formerly part of M2).
The S3 waste exemption lets you store sewage sludge at a site where it will be used in accordance with the Sludge (Use in Agriculture) Regulations 1989.
How to apply for a standard rules environmental permit from the Environment Agency.
What to include in your fire prevention plan, the fire prevention measures you must put in place, a template for your plan and examples of alternative measures.
This guidance explains the standards (appropriate measures) that are relevant to regulated facilities with an environmental permit to treat or transfer all types of WEEE.
How to carry out a groundwater risk assessment for human or animal burials.
The environmental permitting requirements for landfills for inert waste and how to comply with your permit.
Information on waste batteries excluded from the regulations, definitions and battery types.
The T10 exemption allows small organisations, such as charities, to sort recyclable waste so that it can be recovered.
The T8 exemption allows you to treat small amounts of waste end-of-life tyres for recovery by baling, shredding, peeling, shaving or granulating.
How and when you can apply for fluorinated gas (F gas) quota in Great Britain.
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