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Find out if Medium Combustion Plant Directive (MCPD) or specified generator regulations apply to your operations.
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.
This guidance specifies the standards for the continuous monitoring and sampling of stack emissions.
The fundamental objective of radioactive substances regulation and the 10 regulatory principles we apply when carrying out our work.
Nuclear site radioactive substances regulation (RSR), when you need a permit, how to apply, how to change (vary), transfer or surrender your permit
Guidance for individuals who are registered on the MCERTS personnel competency scheme for manual stack emissions monitoring.
Find out the compliance limits for waste water treatment works (WWTW), and how to treat and monitor discharges to meet permit conditions.
What you need to provide to the Environment Agency if you want them to consider allowing your proposed research or trial.
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 the Environment Agency sets and assesses discharge quality numeric limits in environmental permits.
Standard rules to store, or store and treat end-of-life tyres for the purpose of waste recovery.
View the application submitted by Gings Ltd for Same Day Skip Hire Limited, Newton Le Willows.
Advice on indicative standards of operation and environmental performance for industrial sectors.
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.
How to monitor emissions from low risk medium combustion plants (MCPs) and specified generators (SGs). This document was previously known as TGN M5.
When you can use additional waste codes to store, treat or land spread sewage sludge.
How to avoid causing groundwater pollution when developing cemeteries for burying human remains.
These are the maximum uncertainty values to assess whether periodic measurement results comply with emission limit values in environmental permits (formerly part of M2).
The environmental permit, consent and licence you may need before you install a ground source or surface water source heating or cooling system.
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