The Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2016 allow us to offer standard permits to reduce the administrative burden on business whilst maintaining environmental standards. This consultation proposes revising the standard rules sets for biowaste including anaerobic digestion, composting and sewage sludge treatment. We also propose to withdraw some rule sets.
There are currently 21 rule sets listed for biowaste treatment facilities. We propose to reduce the number of standard rules by transposing like for like activity. We therefore are only presenting examples for the following:
Waste facilities
Installations
We also propose merging the existing small scale composting site to one rule set and present a proposal of how this may look. (SR2010 No 14)
We are consulting to seek your views on the proposed changes to the rule sets and that they will limit any negative impacts on human health, communities and the environment from biowaste activities. The proposed changes come as a result of our review of biowaste permits, and our review of incidents and audit data from anaerobic digestion plants.
Our consultation document explains our proposals and the key revisions to the rule sets.
Please click on the link below to answer the consultation questions.
However, if you prefer, you can submit your response by email or post by downloading the response form (below) and sending it to:
Future Regulation - Permitting (Standard Rules Consultation)
Environment Agency
Horizon House
Deanery Road
Bristol
BS1 5AH
Or email: standard-rules@environment-agency.gov.uk
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