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Your responsibilities and rules to follow for watercourses on or near your property, and permissions you need to do work around them.
What flood alerts and flood warnings mean and what you should do when they're issued.
The controls that apply if you transport waste out of or into England.
Find out if you need to follow standing advice when completing a flood risk assessment and what to do.
You can use the pre-application advice service to make sure your permit application is correct.
The U1 exemption allows you to use suitable waste in construction as a recovery activity.
Identify, describe, classify and manage waste upholstered domestic seating containing persistent organic pollutants (POPs).
How to change details of your environmental permit, transfer it to somebody else or cancel it.
The S2 waste exemption allows you to store specific waste at a secure intermediate site, separate to where the waste was produced, before transportation to another site for recovery.
What information the consignment note must contain, who has to complete each part and when it has to be completed.
Rod fishing byelaws are rules and regulations explaining who can fish, where, when and what fish you can take in England.
Find out where SPZs are, what defines the different zones and why the Environment Agency must protect groundwater from pollution.
How the Thames Barrier works, and when it is scheduled to close.
How to identify and classify waste that contains POPs.
How to use the maps to find out if you're at risk of flooding from surface water.
How to store oil, design standards for tanks and containers, where to locate and how to protect them, and capacity of bunds and drip trays.
A list of all F gases and their global warming potentials.
This code provides practical guidance on how to meet your waste duty of care requirements in England and Wales.
How to identify, stop the spread and dispose of Japanese knotweed in England.
How to apply to the Environment Agency for a water abstraction or impounding licence.
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