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Environment Agency enforcement position on temporary discharges of uncontaminated water from excavations to surface water without a water discharge activity permit.
Check if you need to do a risk assessment, how to do a risk assessment, and how the Environment Agency can help you.
This guidance explains the standards (appropriate measures) that are relevant to regulated facilities with an environmental permit to treat or transfer all types of WEEE.
Environment Agency enforcement position on when you can use unbound municipal IBAA in construction activities without an environmental permit.
Find out what you must include in an air dispersion modelling report to get an environmental permit.
Non-nuclear radioactive substances regulation (RSR), when you need a permit, types of permits, how to apply, change (vary), transfer or surrender your permit.
How UK environment agencies assess noise, legal requirements for managing noise, noise impact assessments and noise management plans. This replaces H3 guidance.
Emerging techniques on how to prevent or minimise the environmental impacts of post-combustion carbon dioxide capture.
Use the climate change risk assessment examples for your industry sector when developing or reviewing your management system.
Guidance to help organisations choose a monitoring approach for stack emissions to air that meets Environment Agency and MCERTS requirements (formerly part of M2).
How to work out charges for water abstraction and impounding licences.
How to choose a waste recovery or disposal method and assess its risks when applying for or changing your bespoke environmental permit.
The conditions that new cemetery developments, or new extensions of a cemetery, can operate under without needing an environmental permit.
How to carry out a groundwater risk assessment as part of an application for an environmental permit.
How to apply for an environmental permit if you rear pigs and poultry intensively, including how to comply with and change the permit.
How to assess the risks to groundwater for treated effluent discharges.
Emerging techniques on how to prevent or minimise the environmental impacts of hydrogen production by electrolysis of water.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can store and treat waste fire extinguishers before metal recovery.
Guidance for regulated facilities with an environmental permit to treat or transfer healthcare waste.
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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