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Find out if and by when you need to apply for a medium combustion plant directive (MCPD) environmental permit to meet air quality requirements.
How the Environment Agency charges for activities that need an environmental permit and the charges you must pay.
How to complete waste or materials facility returns, and deadlines for submission.
How you must control and monitor emissions from your activities that may cause pollution.
The T28 exemption allows pharmacies and similar places to denature controlled drugs to comply with Misuse of Drugs Regulations 2001.
Environment Agency enforcement position on temporary discharges of uncontaminated water from excavations to surface water without a water discharge activity permit.
The types of work on or near a main river or sea defence that don't need an environmental permit so are excluded from the regulations.
The D7 exemption allows you to burn plant tissue and untreated wood waste from joinery or manufacturing in the open air.
Plan for climate change impacts to and from your site. How to integrate climate change adaptation into your management system under an environmental permit.
How to apply for standard rules and bespoke permits for A1 installations, including low impact installations.
Find out the legal, financial and professional requirements for operators and managers, including extra duties for waste activity operators.
The T4 exemption allows you to treat waste to reduce its volume for transport to another site for reuse, recycling or to make handling easier.
Find out if and by when you need to apply for a specified generator environmental permit to meet air quality requirements.
Explains the definition of ‘regulated facility’ and how they are grouped into classes.
This guidance explains the appropriate measures that regulated facilities permitted to store, treat or transfer (or both) non-hazardous and inert waste should consider.
What best available techniques are, when you must follow them, how to propose alternatives and how to refer to them in your application.
The S1 waste exemption lets you store certain waste in secure containers at a site separate to where it was produced, before transportation to another site for recovery.
When the MCP is exempt from meeting emission limit values (ELVs), which ELVs apply and the deadlines for meeting them.
Check if you need to do a risk assessment, how to do a risk assessment, and how the Environment Agency can help you.
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.
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