The Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2010

Single site permits etc.E+W+S

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17.—(1) Except as otherwise provided by this regulation, a regulator may not authorise the operation of more than one regulated facility under a single environmental permit.

(2) The regulator may authorise, under a single environmental permit, the operation by the same operator—

(a)of more than one mobile plant;

(b)of more than one standard facility (other than a standard facility to which the IPPC Directive applies); or

(c)subject to paragraph (3) and (4), of more than one regulated facility on the same site.

(3) If one of the regulated facilities mentioned in paragraph (2)(c) is a radioactive substances activity described in [F1paragraph 11(5)] of Part 2 of Schedule 23, the permit may authorise the operation of that regulated facility on more than one site.

(4) If a groundwater activity is carried on as part of a radioactive substances activity—

(a)the regulator must authorise the carrying on of the groundwater activity under the same environmental permit that authorises the carrying on of the radioactive substances activity; and

(b)a separate permit must not be granted in relation to the groundwater activity.

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