PART 2Environmental permits

CHAPTER 2Grant of an environmental permit

Content and form of an environmental permit14

1

An environmental permit must specify—

a

the regulated facility whose operation it authorises, and

b

the operator of that regulated facility.

2

An environmental permit that authorises the operation of a regulated facility (“regulated facility A”) need not specify any regulated facility of another class that is carried on as part of the operation of regulated facility A.

3

An environmental permit may be in electronic form.

4

An environmental permit must include a map, plan or other description of the site showing the geographical extent of the site of the regulated facility.

5

But if there is more than one regulated facility on the site, the map, plan or other description need show only the combined extent of all the facilities.

6

Paragraphs (4) and (5) do not apply to an environmental permit authorising—

a

the operation of mobile plant, or

F1aa

the keeping of radioactive material or the accumulation or removal of radioactive waste under paragraph 11(2) of Part 2 of Schedule 23, where—

i

the activity is described in standard rules published under regulation 26(5); and

ii

the permit authorises the carrying on of that activity at more than one site; or

b

the carrying on of a radioactive substances activity described in paragraph 11(5) of Part 2 of Schedule 23.