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How to access the Environment Agency's public registers of environmental information.
Standard rules and bespoke permits for using, treating, storing and disposing of waste. Check if you need a permit and find out how to apply.
How to meet the general binding rules if your septic tank or small sewage treatment plant releases (discharges) waste water to the ground.
Register waste exemptions to store, treat, use or dispose of waste. Deregister exemptions you no longer need and update details that have changed.
When you need an environmental permit to discharge liquid effluent or waste water to surface water or the ground, and how to apply.
Permits for installations, medium combustion plant, specified generator, waste or mining waste operations, water discharge or groundwater activities, or work on or near a main river or sea defence.
Check if you need to apply for an environmental permit, formerly known as a flood defence consent, and get the forms you need.
What counts as a statutory nuisance and how councils can deal with complaints by issuing an abatement notice.
The Environment Agency's charging scheme for environmental permits, abstraction licences and impounding licences.
How to meet the general binding rules if your septic tank or small sewage discharge treatment plant releases (discharges) waste water to a surface water.
The U1 exemption allows you to use suitable waste in construction as a recovery activity.
You can use the pre-application advice service to make sure your permit application is correct.
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.
How to change details of your environmental permit, transfer it to somebody else or cancel it.
How to develop a management system and keep it up to date so that you can carry out activities under an environmental permit.
The D7 exemption allows you to burn plant tissue and untreated wood waste from joinery or manufacturing in the open air.
How to choose the right waste exemptions for your business, comply with exemption conditions, and know if you need to register.
How to carry out a risk assessment if you are applying for a bespoke permit that includes discharging hazardous chemicals and elements to surface water.
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.
How the Environment Agency charges for activities that need an environmental permit and the charges you must pay.
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