- The Board Accepts for Hearing An IEPA Proposal to Amend Rules for
Hospital/Medical/Infectious Waste Incinerators
The Board, on January 6, 2011, accepted for hearing a proposed rulemaking to amend the
Board’s air quality standards rules for “Hospital/Medical/Infectious Waste Incinerators”
(HMIWI).
- The proposed rulemaking is docketed as In the Matter of: Amendments to 35 Ill.
- The compliance date for the new rules would be January 1, 2014.
- IEPA explains that the federal Clean Air Act requires
IEPA submission of a State Implementation Plan amendment to the USEPA concerning these
amendments, to avoid USEPA’s imposition of a Federal Implementation Plan two years after the
date of federa...