Public Act 098-0366
 
HB0702 EnrolledLRB098 03526 JDS 33541 b

    AN ACT concerning safety.
 
    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
 
    Section 5. The Environmental Protection Act is amended by
changing Section 3.360 as follows:
 
    (415 ILCS 5/3.360)  (was 415 ILCS 5/3.84)
    Sec. 3.360. Potentially infectious medical waste.
    (a) "Potentially infectious medical waste" means the
following types of waste generated in connection with the
diagnosis, treatment (i.e., provision of medical services), or
immunization of human beings or animals; research pertaining to
the provision of medical services; or the production or testing
of biologicals:
        (1) Cultures and stocks. This waste shall include but
    not be limited to cultures and stocks of agents infectious
    to humans, and associated biologicals; cultures from
    medical or pathological laboratories; cultures and stocks
    of infectious agents from research and industrial
    laboratories; wastes from the production of biologicals;
    discarded live or attenuated vaccines; or culture dishes
    and devices used to transfer, inoculate, or mix cultures.
        (2) Human pathological wastes. This waste shall
    include tissue, organs, and body parts (except teeth and
    the contiguous structures of bone and gum); body fluids
    that are removed during surgery, autopsy, or other medical
    procedures; or specimens of body fluids and their
    containers.
        (3) Human blood and blood products. This waste shall
    include discarded human blood, blood components (e.g.,
    serum and plasma), or saturated material containing free
    flowing blood or blood components.
        (4) Used sharps. This waste shall include but not be
    limited to discarded sharps used in animal or human patient
    care, medical research, or clinical or pharmaceutical
    laboratories; hypodermic, intravenous, or other medical
    needles; hypodermic or intravenous syringes; Pasteur
    pipettes; scalpel blades; or blood vials. This waste shall
    also include but not be limited to other types of broken or
    unbroken glass (including slides and cover slips) in
    contact with infectious agents.
        (5) Animal waste. Animal waste means discarded
    materials, including carcasses, body parts, body fluids,
    blood, or bedding originating from animals inoculated
    during research, production of biologicals, or
    pharmaceutical testing with agents infectious to humans.
        (6) Isolation waste. This waste shall include
    discarded materials contaminated with blood, excretions,
    exudates, and secretions from humans that are isolated to
    protect others from highly communicable diseases. "Highly
    communicable diseases" means those diseases identified by
    the Board in rules adopted under subsection (e) of Section
    56.2 of this Act.
        (7) Unused sharps. This waste shall include but not be
    limited to the following unused, discarded sharps:
    hypodermic, intravenous, or other needles; hypodermic or
    intravenous syringes; or scalpel blades.
    (b) Potentially infectious medical waste does not include:
        (1) waste generated as general household waste;
        (2) waste (except for sharps) for which the infectious
    potential has been eliminated by treatment; or
        (3) sharps that meet both of the following conditions:
            (A) the infectious potential has been eliminated
        from the sharps by treatment; and
            (B) the sharps are rendered unrecognizable by
        treatment; or .
        (4) sharps that are managed in accordance with the
    following requirements:
            (A) the infectious potential is eliminated from
        the sharps by treatment at a facility that is permitted
        by the Agency for the treatment of potentially
        infectious medical waste;
            (B) the sharps are certified by the treatment
        facility as non-special waste in accordance with
        Section 22.48 of this Act;
            (C) the sharps are packaged at the treatment
        facility the same as required under Board rules for
        potentially infectious medical waste;
            (D) the sharps are transported under the custody of
        the treatment facility to a landfill permitted by the
        Agency under Section 21 of this Act to accept municipal
        waste for disposal; and
            (E) the activities in subparagraphs (A) through
        (D) of this paragraph (4) are authorized in, and
        conducted in accordance with, a permit issued by the
        Agency to the treatment facility.
(Source: P.A. 92-574, eff. 6-26-02.)

Effective Date: 1/1/2014