ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD
    August 26, 1991
    IN THE MATTER OF:
    )
    R91—19
    POTENTIALLY INFECTIOUS MEDICAL
    )
    (Identical
    in
    WASTE
    (P1MW):
    ETIOLOGICAL AGENTS
    )
    Substance Rulemaking)
    ORDER OF THE BOARD
    (by R.
    C. Flemal):
    TI~ismatter 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(e), which requires that the Board “adopt rules that are
    identical
    in substance to the list of etiological agents
    identified as Class 4 agents as set forth in ‘Classification of
    Etiological Agents on the Basis of Hazard,
    1974’, published by
    the Centers for Disease Control
    CDC).
    .
    .or
    if amended by CDC
    rules that are identical in substance to the amended list
    .
    .
    •“
    The Board today opens this docket for the purpose of
    conducting preliminary steps to this rulemaking pending the
    Governor’s signature.
    IT IS SO ORDERED.
    I,
    Dorothy M. Gunn,
    Clerk of the Illinois Pollution Control
    Board, hereby cer~.,ifythat the above Order was adopted on the
    ~~4~-day
    of _______________________,
    1991,
    by a vote
    of’
    ___
    Dorothy M. ~inn,
    Clerk
    Illinois Pollution Control Board
    125—535

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