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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-environmental-permitting-england-and-wales-regulations-2007/schedule-5/paragraph-14",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2007/9780110788760",
  "legislation_title": "The Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2007",
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  "path": "schedule/5/paragraph/14",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "14",
  "heading": "Surrender applications",
  "text": "The regulator must accept an application to surrender an environmental permit in whole or in part under regulation 25(2) if it is satisfied that the necessary measures have been taken—\n(a) to avoid a pollution risk resulting from the operation of the regulated facility; and\n(b) to return the site of the regulated facility to a satisfactory state, having regard to the state of the site before the facility was put into operation.",
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  "version": "current",
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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."
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