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How to avoid causing groundwater pollution when developing cemeteries for burying human remains.
You must manage your operations to prevent or minimise pollution from the activities authorised by your permit.
Sources of radioactivity in the environment and how levels of radioactivity are monitored and assessed.
Environment Agency's regulation of Sizewell A, B and C and how you can find out more about environmental permits and other activities at these nuclear sites.
These are the maximum uncertainty values to assess whether periodic measurement results comply with emission limit values in environmental permits (formerly part of M2).
How the Environment Agency meets the Regulators’ Code.
Checklists to help you prepare for flooding if you support a community or group
The environmental permit, consent and licence you may need before you install a ground source or surface water source heating or cooling system.
Check if an item of upholstered domestic seating is a waste or non-waste item and, if it is waste, identify if it contains persistent organic pollutants (POPs).
When you may need to fit an eel pass or screen to a water structure and what to submit if applying for a new licence or environmental permit.
Guidance on the monitoring of bioaerosols from stacks, open biofilters and in ambient air.
These are the appropriate measures for ELV storage at regulated facilities with an environmental permit to treat ELVs.
How the current health of the water environment is assessed and how environmental objectives are used.
Where you can build a pet cemetery, the animals you can bury there, how it must be built and how to register.
Setting out how regulatory bodies can co-ordinate the separate processes for coastal development consents in England.
We work with academics and researchers who can help address our priorities. Find out here how to apply for our support.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can store and treat waste glass containing other non-hazardous wastes.
How to report your data, deal with changes to your account or organisation, and what happens if you miss or exceed targets or report late.
This guidance is aimed at helping readers understand the permitting and other requirements specific to Radioactive Substances Regulation.
What happens if a structure or feature on your land is designated as a flood or coastal erosion defence asset.
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