ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD
    October
    2,
    1980
    In the Matter Of:
    )
    Hazardous Hospital Wastes,
    Sections
    3(jj)
    and 21(h) of the
    )
    R80—19
    Environmental Protection Act
    )
    ORDER OF THE BOARD
    (by J.
    Anderson):
    Section 21(h) (formerly g)
    of the Environmental Protection Act
    (Act)
    states that no person shall:
    “Deposit any hazardous hospital waste
    in any landfill
    on or after January
    1,
    1981.
    All such waste shall be
    properly incinerated or processed by an alternative
    method pursuant to regulations adopted by the Board.
    This requirement shall take effect January
    1,
    1981.”
    The Board has received no proposals for rulemaking to implement
    this section.
    Upon its own motion,
    the Board hereby authorizes the
    scheduling of at least two inquiry hearings on this matter pursuant
    to Procedural Rule 216 and Sections 5(b) and 5(d) of the Act.
    The
    hearings shall be held to elicit comments,
    to include,
    in par-
    ticular,
    the following areas:
    1.
    The proper interpretation and scope of Section
    3(jj)
    (formerly t) of the Act defining hazardous hospital wastes as
    “wastes generated in connection with patient care that is
    sic
    contaminated with or may be contaminated with an infectious agent
    that has the potential of inducing an infection and has not been
    rendered innocuous by sterilization or incineration.”
    2.
    The definitional relationship,
    if any, between “hospital
    pathological wastes”
    listed as an “industrial process waste” in
    Section 3(i)
    (a sub—category of Section 3(aa)
    “special waste”),
    and “hazardous hospital wastes” as defined
    in Section
    3(jj).
    3.
    The existence and availability of methods,
    in addition
    to “proper” incineration, for processing of hazardous hospital
    wastes, pursuant to Sec.
    21(h).
    4.
    A comparison of the scope of Sections
    3(jj)
    and 21(h)
    of
    the Act with applicable Federal laws and regulations in this area.
    IT IS SO ORDERED.
    I, Christan L.
    Moffett, Clerk of the Illinois Pollution
    Control Board, hereby certif
    that the above Order was adopted
    on the
    ~
    day of
    t
    ,
    1980 by a vote of
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    C~tan~
    ~
    Illinois Pollution Control Board

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