Sec. 8. (a) After consulting with an advisory committee composed of representatives of persons or facilities that handle infectious wastes, the state department shall adopt rules under IC 4-22-2 necessary to carry out this chapter.

     (b) The state department shall adopt rules under this section after considering the guidelines of the following:

Terms Used In Indiana Code 16-41-16-8

  • infectious waste: means waste that epidemiologic evidence indicates is capable of transmitting a serious communicable disease (as set forth in the list published under IC 16-41-2-1). See Indiana Code 16-41-16-4
  • United States: includes the District of Columbia and the commonwealths, possessions, states in free association with the United States, and the territories. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
(1) United States Environmental Protection Agency.

(2) United States Centers for Disease Control.

(3) United States Occupational Safety and Health Administration.

(4) State department of labor.

(5) State department of environmental management.

     (c) The state department shall adopt rules under this section that establish an alternative to 410 IAC 1-3-28 to allow a person or facility that transports infectious waste offsite to label each container of infectious waste in a manner that:

(1) does not specifically identify the generating facility or treatment facility; and

(2) ensures that the identity of the generating facility or treatment facility may be readily obtained based on the label information.

[Pre-1993 Recodification Citation: 16-1-9.7-8.]

As added by P.L.2-1993, SEC.24. Amended by P.L.128-1997, SEC.9.

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