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What information local planning authorities need to include in a strategic flood risk assessment.
Find out if and by when you need to apply for a specified generator environmental permit to meet air quality requirements.
Distances between locks on the River Thames and measurements restricting navigation.
Find the 2022 update to the river basin management plans which describe the challenges that threaten the water environment and how these challenges can be managed.
What the reservoir flood maps show, how they were created and how to use them for your assessments.
What best available techniques are, when you must follow them, how to propose alternatives and how to refer to them in your application.
Standard rules to operate a household, commercial and industrial waste transfer station with treatment. These rules also allow the storage of asbestos, batteries, cable and waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE).
How to assess the performance of and scope out improvements to storm overflows under Urban Waste Water Treatment Regulations requirements.
Plan for climate change impacts to and from your site. How to integrate climate change adaptation into your management system under an environmental permit.
Checklists to help you prepare for flooding.
This exemption allows you to temporarily store waste you have produced when working away from your normal business premises.
How to report releases and transfers from industrial activities that the Environment Agency regulates.
Environment Agency enforcement position on temporary discharges of uncontaminated water from excavations to surface water without a water discharge activity permit.
When the MCP is exempt from meeting emission limit values (ELVs), which ELVs apply and the deadlines for meeting them.
The T11 exemption allows you to repair, refurbish or dismantle various types of WEEE so that the whole WEEE item or any parts can be reused for their original purpose or recovered.
Standard rules for the treatment of waste to produce soil, soil substitutes and aggregate.
This exemption allows you to temporarily store any waste at the place of production before it’s collected.
The U8 exemption allows you to use waste materials (that do not need treating) for a specific purpose to reduce the use of virgin or non-waste materials.
Apply to become an approved authorised treatment facility (AATF) and how to operate legally under the approval.
The T6 exemption allows you to chip, shred, cut or pulverise waste wood and plant matter to make it easier to store and transport, or to convert it for use.
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