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You can use the pre-application advice service to make sure your permit application is correct.
Find out about Compliance Assessment Reports, assessments, inspections and permit reviews, and what the Environment Agency will do if you do not follow the rules.
How UK environment agencies assess noise, legal requirements for managing noise, noise impact assessments and noise management plans. This replaces H3 guidance.
How to carry out a groundwater risk assessment as part of an application for an environmental permit.
Guidance to help organisations choose a monitoring approach for stack emissions to air that meets Environment Agency and MCERTS requirements (formerly part of M2).
You can use these emission factors to quantify the amount of ammonia emitted from your permitted pig or poultry operations.
The T1 waste exemption allows you to treat waste packaging so it can be reused in its original form or becomes clean waste suitable for recycling.
How to choose a waste recovery or disposal method and assess its risks when applying for or changing your bespoke environmental permit.
Emerging techniques on how to prevent or minimise the environmental impacts of post-combustion carbon dioxide capture.
Emerging techniques on how to prevent or minimise the environmental impacts of hydrogen production by electrolysis of water.
How to develop a management system for carrying out flood risk activities under an environmental permit.
Find out if your groundwater discharges are extremely low risk so don’t need an environmental permit or exemption.
How to trial new operating models and technologies at regulated facilities.
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.
How to apply for a standard rules environmental permit from the Environment Agency.
The D1 exemption allows you to deposit dredging spoil on the banks of the water it was dredged from and treat it by screening and removing water.
Guidance for regulated facilities with an environmental permit to treat or transfer healthcare waste.
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.
The T10 exemption allows small organisations, such as charities, to sort recyclable waste so that it can be recovered.
The S3 waste exemption lets you store sewage sludge at a site where it will be used in accordance with the Sludge (Use in Agriculture) Regulations 1989.
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