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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-environmental-permitting-england-and-wales-regulations-2007/schedule-1/paragraph-7",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2007/9780110788760",
  "legislation_title": "The Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-environmental-permitting-england-and-wales-regulations-2007",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/7",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "References to releases into water",
  "text": "References in Part 2 to, or to the release into water of, a substance listed in this paragraph or to its release in a quantity which, in any period of 12 months, is greater than the background quantity by an amount specified in this paragraph are to the following substances and amounts—\nTable\nSubstance\nAmount greater than the background quantity (in grammes) in any period of 12 months\nWhere both Altrazine and Simazine are released, the figure for both substances in aggregate is 350 grammes.\nMercury and its compounds\n200 (expressed as metal)\nCadmium and its compounds\n1,000 (expressed as metal)\nAll isomers of hexachlorocyclohexane\n20\nAll isomers of DDT\n5\nPentachlorophenol and its compounds\n350 (expressed as PCP)\nHexachlorobenzene\n5\nHexachlorobutadiene\n20\nAldrin\n2\nDieldrin\n2\nEndrin\n1\nPolychlorinated Biphenyls\n1\nDichlorvos\n0.2\n1, 2—Dichloroethane\n2,000\nAll isomers of trichlorobenzene\n75\nAtrazine\n350\nSimazine\n350\nTributyltin compounds\n4 (expressed as TBT)\nTriphenyltin compounds\n4 (expressed as TPT)\nTrifluralin\n20\nFenitrothion\n2\nAzinphos-methyl\n2\nMalathion\n2\nEndosulfan\n0.5",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Where both Altrazine and Simazine are released, the figure for both substances in aggregate is 350 grammes."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}