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How to access the Environment Agency's public registers of environmental information.
How to meet the general binding rules if your septic tank or small sewage treatment plant releases (discharges) waste water to the ground.
Check if you need to apply for an environmental permit, formerly known as a flood defence consent, and get the forms you need.
When you may need an environmental permit or licence for activities that could pollute, increase flood risk, affect land drainage or affect water resources. Check the rules and get advice before you start operating.
Register and pay for exemptions to store, treat, use or dispose of waste. Deregister exemptions you no longer need and update details that have changed.
What counts as a statutory nuisance and how councils can deal with complaints by issuing an abatement notice.
When you need an environmental permit to discharge liquid effluent or waste water to surface water or the ground, and how to apply.
The Environment Agency's charging scheme for environmental permits, abstraction licences and impounding licences.
Types of waste and how much you can use in building projects, landscaping and drainage works, or to maintain existing linear networks under a U1 exemption.
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 discharge treatment plant releases (discharges) waste water to a surface water.
You can use the pre-application advice service to make sure your permit application is correct.
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 apply to the Environment Agency for a water abstraction or impounding licence.
How to change details of your environmental permit, transfer it to somebody else or cancel it.
How to apply for environmental permit for an activity in England that could cause pollution, increase flood risk or affect land drainage.
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 carry out a risk assessment if you are applying for a bespoke permit that includes discharging hazardous chemicals and elements to surface water.
General binding rules for small sewage discharges from septic tanks or sewage treatment plants in England.
Find out about flood risk activity exemptions, which used to need flood defence consent, and how to register them.
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