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When you do not need a water abstraction licence from the Environment Agency for passive dewatering.
For a Part A installation with an anaerobic digestion treatment capacity of over 100 tonnes of waste, or waste and non-waste each day accepting no more than 100,000 tonnes each year.
Environment Agency's regulation of Hinkley Point, about EDF’s appeal, how you can find out about environmental permits and other activities at Hinkley Point.
Check if an item of upholstered domestic seating is a waste or non-waste item and, if it is waste, identify if it contains persistent organic pollutants (POPs).
The T8 exemption allows you to treat small amounts of waste end-of-life tyres for recovery by baling, shredding, peeling, shaving or granulating.
How to avoid causing groundwater pollution when developing cemeteries for burying human remains.
The D5 exemption allows you to deposit and store waste samples when required to comply with or enforce specified regulations, or before testing and analysis for research.
How to meet the requirements of using mobile plant for landspreading waste to provide agricultural benefit or ecological improvement.
Information you must submit to the Environment Agency in a noise impact assessment that uses computer modelling or spreadsheet calculations.
The types of permit available, how much they cost and how to apply for your environmental permit.
The T13 exemption allows you to recover waste food by decanting or unwrapping it and recovering the packaging.
The T25 exemption allows you to treat food and other biodegradable waste by anaerobic digestion to produce digestate for use as fertiliser, and burn the resulting biogas.
This guidance explains the standards (appropriate measures) that are relevant to regulated facilities with an environmental permit to treat or transfer waste temperature exchange equipment (WTEE).
Principles setting out what the Environment Agency expects from permit holders carrying out radioactive substances activities.
How to comply with your environmental permit: technical guidance for managing clinical waste.
Use the Industrial Emissions Directive (IED) cost-benefit analysis tool to inform your application for a derogation from the requirements of the IED.
Check what activities and locations apply to the byelaws.
How the Environment Agency sets and assesses discharge quality numeric limits in environmental permits.
When you need a consent or permit to make a discharge from your reservoir and how to carry out a risk assessment.
How the Environment Agency regulates discharges and radioactive waste disposals from Sellafield through environmental permitting.
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