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How to apply to the Environment Agency for a water abstraction or impounding licence.
When you need to do an environmental risk assessment, when the Environment Agency will do it for you, and how to do a risk assessment.
T28 waste exemption allows pharmacies and similar practitioners to denature controlled drugs, to comply with Misuse of Drugs Regulations 2001. T28 exemptions are free of charge.
How to develop a management system and keep it up to date so that you can carry out activities under an environmental permit.
How to apply for environmental permit for an activity in England that could cause pollution, increase flood risk or affect land drainage.
Find out about flood risk activity exemptions, which used to need flood defence consent, and how to register them.
S1 waste exemption lets you store certain waste in secure containers at a site separate to where it was produced, before transporting to another site for recovery.
This guidance explains the appropriate measures that regulated facilities permitted to store, treat or transfer (or both) non-hazardous and inert waste should consider.
Find out if and by when you need to apply for a medium combustion plant directive (MCPD) environmental permit to meet air quality requirements.
How the Environment Agency charges for activities that need an environmental permit and the charges you must pay.
T4 exemption allows you to treat waste to reduce its volume for transport to another site for reuse, recycling or to make handling easier.
Explains the definition of ‘regulated facility’ and how they are grouped into classes.
This exemption allows you to temporarily store waste you have produced when working away from your normal business premises.
How you must control and monitor emissions from your activities that may cause pollution.
T6 exemption allows you to chip, shred, pulverise or cut waste wood and plant matter to make it suitable for a specific purpose.
Find out the legal, financial and professional requirements for operators and managers, including extra duties for waste activity operators.
The T11 exemption allows you to repair, refurbish or dismantle various types of WEEE so that the whole WEEE item or any parts can be reused for their original purpose or recovered.
U10 exemption lets you spread certain wastes on agricultural land to improve soil, instead of using manufactured fertilisers or virgin materials.
T9 exemption allows you to treat scrap metal for handling or recovery by sorting, grading, shearing by manual feed, baling, crushing or cutting with handheld equipment.
The types of work on or near a main river or sea defence that don't need an environmental permit so are excluded from the regulations.
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