(415 ILCS 5/56) (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 1056)
Sec. 56.
(a) The General Assembly finds:
(1) that potentially infectious medical waste, if not |
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(2) that potentially infectious medical waste, if not
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(b) It is the purpose of this Title to reduce the potential
environmental and public health risks associated with potentially
infectious medical waste by establishing statutory and regulatory
requirements to ensure that such waste will be handled in a safe and
responsible manner.
(c) Potentially infectious medical waste is not a hazardous waste, except
for
those potentially infectious medical wastes identified by characteristics or
listing as hazardous under Section 3001 of the Resource Conservation and
Recovery Act of 1976, P.L. 94-580, or pursuant to Board regulations.
Potentially infectious medical waste characterized or listed as hazardous shall
be subject to the appropriate hazardous waste regulations. Potentially
infectious medical waste packages that contain both waste characterized or
listed as
hazardous and waste characterized as nonhazardous shall be subject to
the
hazardous waste regulations.
(Source: P.A. 90-773, eff. 8-14-98.)
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