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How to comply with your permit, including maintenance, record keeping and pollution reporting requirements.
If you operate a medium combustion plant (MCP) or a generator, find out if you need to meet MCP and specified generator regulations.
How to apply for a standard rules environmental permit from the Environment Agency.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can import UK origin naturally occurring radioactive material (NORM) waste without a waste shipment consent.
When to use hydrological and hydraulic modelling as part of a flood risk assessment for a planning application, and the expected standards.
When you can use PCBs and equipment, products or materials containing them, and how to register, label and dispose of them.
How to provide enough storage and keep storage records of organic manures in a nitrate vulnerable zone (NVZ).
The T9 exemption allows you to treat scrap metal for handling or recovery by sorting, grading, shearing by manual feed, baling, crushing or cutting with handheld equipment.
Guidance and information on flood risk management and surface water management.
Appropriate measures for permitted waste management facilities that handle organic waste, also known as biowaste.
Use the climate change risk assessment examples for your industry sector when developing or reviewing your management system.
Use this guide to understand when your waste water discharge is classed as domestic sewage.
How to apply for accreditation, comply with your accreditation and packaging waste technical information.
How to complete waste or materials facility returns, and deadlines for submission.
This manual is a guide for industry sector associations and operators of a climate change agreement (CCA).
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.
How the Environment Agency carries out government policy for groundwater and adopts a risk-based approach where legislation allows.
A guide to adapting your home or business to flooding, and how to pump water out of your property after a flood.
Records you must keep about fluorinated gas (F gas) in your own equipment.
The T23 exemption allows you to compost small volumes of vegetation, cardboard and food waste to spread on soil to add nutrients or improve the structure.
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