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If you have identified changes to a watercourse or watercourse section, you can submit the associated geodata and metadata to the NLWKN. Missing information can be obtained online from the Lower Saxony environmental map online. This display is free of charge.

If the game you shot is contaminated with more than 600 becquerels of caesium per kilogram of radiation/radioactivity, you can apply for payment of compensation for damages.

If you wish to construct and or operate part of a new facility, you must apply for a partial permit from the appropriate authority.

If you want to change a discharge from a small wastewater treatment plant for which you have a permit under water law, you must apply to the competent authority for a change of permit.

If you want to infiltrate pre-treated wastewater from a small wastewater treatment plant or discharge it into a surface water body, you can apply for a water law permit from the responsible water authority.

If you want to carry out fumigation, you need a permit, which you must apply for from the competent authority.

Would you like to fell a municipally protected tree or carry out pruning? Then you need a corresponding permit.

Are you applying for a permit for installations under the simplified procedure? Then you can obtain a permit from the competent authority for the construction and operation of installations of a certain type or size without public participation.

You have applied for a permit for a plant requiring a permit? Then you can also apply to start construction of the plant ahead of schedule.

If you wish to discharge commercial/industrial wastewater into a public wastewater system or sewer system, you generally require a permit. Until the permit is issued, the authorities may allow you to discharge the wastewater beforehand.

Do you want to report a body of water or section of water that regularly carries water for less than six months a year? In this case, you can enter it in the list of regularly dry water bodies.

If you require a certificate of competence for fumigation activities, you can apply for this from the competent authority.

If you would like to conduct guided tours on tidal flats in the Lower Saxony Wadden Sea, you will need a permit.

If you wish to extract groundwater, you can apply for a water permit from the relevant water authority.

If you apply for a preliminary decision on a plant requiring a permit, the competent authority may grant this under certain conditions.

If you want to discharge wastewater into a private wastewater plant, you can be exempted from the permit requirement under certain conditions.

If you intend to make significant changes to an installation that requires a permit, you must apply for a permit from the responsible authority.

If you intend to make changes (repowering) to an installation that requires approval and generates electricity from renewable energy sources, you can apply to the competent authority for an easing of the approval procedure.

If you wish to extract groundwater, you can apply for a permit under water law from the relevant water authority.

If you want to offer a course for the expert use of biocidal products, you must have the course recognised by the competent authority in advance.

Do you extract water from a surface water body or from groundwater, or do you extract or discharge groundwater? If so, a fee must be paid to the respective federal state.

Do you extract water from surface waters or groundwater or pump or discharge groundwater? Then a fee must be paid to the respective federal state.

If you have installed or operate a system and this system requires approval for the first time due to a change in the law, you must notify the responsible authority in good time.

As the operator of a water supply system or non-drinking water system, you are obliged to register it.

If the period of validity of your permit for guided tours on tidal flats in the Lower Saxony Wadden Sea ends and you would like to conduct guided tours on the tidal flats in the future, you will need to renew your permit.

You must notify the competent authority of groundwater abstraction for domestic use, farm operations, watering livestock or in small quantities for a temporary purpose.

If you are an authorized mudflat guide and wish to conduct mudflat tours on additional areas or routes, you will need an extension to your existing permit.

The disposal of waste electrical and electronic equipment from private households is the responsibility of the public waste disposal authorities.

Do you intend to make changes to an installation requiring a permit that are relevant to an incident? Then you may need to apply for a permit from the responsible authority beforehand.

If you wish to construct or significantly modify a facility for handling substances hazardous to water or take measures that result in a change in the hazard level, you must notify us.

If you wish to carry out a fumigation activity, you must notify the competent authority.

As the operator of a waste incineration plant or a combustion plant in which you co-incinerate waste, you must continuously determine, record and evaluate pollutant emissions through continuous measurements.

If you release eels into water bodies (stocking), you should record this and send it to the competent authority as an annual report.

As an operator of a medium-sized combustion plant, gas turbine or combustion engine plant, you must determine the pollutant emissions under certain conditions by means of continuous measurements and create a measurement report on the results.