ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD
    August 26, 1991
    IN THE MATTER OF:
    )
    R91—2l
    POTENTIALLY INFECTIOUS MEDICAL
    )
    (Rulemaking)
    WASTE
    (P1MW): TRANSPORTATION,
    )
    PACKAGING, AND LABELING
    )
    ORDER OF THE BOARD
    (by R.
    C.
    Flenial):
    This matter is before the Board on its own Motion.
    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(c), which requires that the Board “adopt regulations
    in
    accordance with Title VII of
    the
    Act prescribing standards and
    criteria for transporting, packaging, segregating,
    labeling,
    and
    marking potentially infectious medical waste”,
    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 M.
    Gunn,
    Clerk of the Illinois Pollution Control
    Board, hereby certt~ythat the above Order was adopted on the
    c~Y~
    day of
    1~-.cT
    ,
    1991,
    by a vote of
    ~27.
    1~z~
    ~
    Dorothy M. Gu
    n,
    Clerk
    Illinois Pollution Control Board
    125—539

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