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The T24 exemption allows farmers to anaerobically digest manure, slurry and vegetation on their farms to produce digestate for use as fertiliser or soil conditioner.
The T8 exemption allows you to treat small amounts of waste end-of-life tyres for recovery by baling, shredding, peeling, shaving or granulating.
A document to help Environment Agency staff identify and communicate climate impacts and risks relevant to our work.
To help both holders and potential holders of environmental permits understand how to comply with their permits.
Standards for the flood risk management industry on how to build and review hydraulic models and provide evidence for flood risk management decisions.
Environment Agency enforcement position on when you can treat and dispose of invasive non-native plant material without an environmental permit.
Check if you're exempt from needing an environmental permit for a new closed loop ground source heating and cooling system.
Nuclear site radioactive substances regulation (RSR), when you need a permit, how to apply, how to change (vary), transfer or surrender your permit
South West byelaws are statutory (regulated by law) rules and regulations explaining who can fish, where, when and what fish you can take.
Find out how you can use natural options to reduce flooding in your area, who to contact for advice, and if you can get funding.
Standard rules for installing and using boreholes and temporary trial pits within a floodplain.
What you need to provide to the Environment Agency if you want them to consider allowing your proposed research or trial.
How to calculate your financial provision, what it needs to cover and how to agree it with the Environment Agency.
What you need to monitor and how to report your performance to meet your permit conditions.
Sampling and chemical testing of untreated sewage, treated sewage effluents and trade effluents.
Meeting the standard for stack emissions monitoring sample locations – requirements for measurement sections and sites. This guidance was formerly called M1.
Standard rules for constructing an outfall pipe up to 500mm diameter through a headwall into a main river.
Sources of radioactivity in the environment and how levels of radioactivity are monitored and assessed.
The water industry is producing strategic drainage and wastewater plans to maintain, improve, and extend robust and resilient drainage and wastewater systems.
From the 1 April 2024 you must pay the Environment Agency (greenhouse gas emissions) charges for 1 April 2024 to 31 March 2025.
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