ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD
    August 26, 1991
    IN THE MATTER OF:
    )
    R91—20
    POTENTIALLY INFECTIOUS MEDICAL
    )
    (Rulemaking)
    WASTE
    (P1MW): TREATMENT,
    STORAGE,
    )
    AND TRANSFER FACILITIES
    )
    OPINION AND ORDER OF THE BOARD
    (by R.
    C.
    Flemal)
    This matter is before the Board on its own Notion.
    House
    Bill 2491, presently awaiting the Governor’s signature,
    amends
    various provisions of the Environmental Protection Act as they
    relate to potentially infectious medical wastes.
    New Title XV:
    Potentially Infectious Medical Waste includes several legislative
    mandates for Board rulemaking.
    One such mandate
    is
    new
    Section
    56.2(a), which requires that the Board ~adopt regulations in
    accordance with Title VII of
    the
    Act prescribing design and
    operating standards and criteria for all potentially infectious
    medical treatment, storage, and transfer facilities”,- no later
    than January
    1,
    1993.
    The Board today opens this docket for the purpose of
    conducting this rulemaking, pending the Governor’s signature
    of
    HB 2491.
    Considering the time deadline and the fact that no
    proposal for rulemaking exists,
    the Board Orders that Inquiry
    Hearings be set
    in this matter.
    IT IS SO ORDERED.
    I,
    Dorothy N. Gunn,
    Clerk of the Illinois Pollution Control
    Board,
    hereby ce5tify that the above Order was adopted on the~~/~(
    —
    day of ________________________,
    1991,
    by a vote of
    7~)
    ~
    ~2~/
    Dorothy M. dunn,
    Clerk
    Illinois Pollution Control Board
    125—537

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