Terms are defined as follows:
(A) [Reserved.]
(B) [Reserved.]
(C) "Clerk" means the clerk of the
township.
(D) [Reserved.]
(E) [Reserved.]
(F)
"Facility"
means any site, location, tract of land, installation, or building used for
incineration, composting, sanitary landfilling, or other methods of disposal of
solid wastes or, if the solid wastes consist of scrap tires, for the
collection, storage, or processing of the solid wastes; for the transfer of
solid wastes; for the treatment of infectious wastes; or for the storage,
treatment, or disposal of hazardous waste.
[Reserved.]
(G) [Reserved.]
(H) [Reserved.]
(I)
(1)
"Incinerator"
means any equipment, machine, device,
article, contrivance, structure, or part of a structure used to burn solid or
infectious wastes to ash
has the same meaning
as in rule
3745-500-02 of the
Administrative Code.
(2)
"Infectious waste host fee" means a fee levied by a municipal corporation or
township in accordance with section
3734.024 of the Revised
Code.
(3) "Infectious wastes"
means any wastes or combination of wastes that
includes cultures and stocks of infectious agents and associated biologicals,
human blood and blood products, and substances that were or are likely to have
been exposed to or contaminated with or are likely to transmit an infectious
agent or zoonotic agent, including all of the following:
has the same meaning as in section
3734.01 of the Revised
Code.
(a) Laboratory
wastes;
(b) Pathological wastes, including
human and animal tissues, organs, body parts, and body fluids and excreta that
are contaminated with or are likely to be contaminated with infectious agents
or zoonotic agents;
(c) Animal blood and blood
products;
(d) Animal carcasses and
parts;
(e) Waste materials from the rooms
of humans, or the enclosures of animals, that have been isolated because of
diagnosed communicable disease that are likely to transmit infectious agents.
Also included are waste materials from the rooms of patients who have been
placed on blood and body fluid precautions under the universal precaution
system established by the "Centers for Disease Control" in the public health
service of the United States department of health and human services, if
specific wastes generated under the universal precautions system have been
identified as infectious wastes by rules referred to in paragraph (I)(3)(g) of
this rule.
(f) Sharp wastes used in the
treatment, diagnosis, or inoculation of human beings or
animals;
(g) Any other waste materials
generated in the diagnosis, treatment, or immunization of human beings or
animals, in research pertaining thereto, or in the production of testing of
biologicals, that the public health council created in section 3701.33 of the
Revised Code, by rules adopted in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised
Code, identifies as infectious wastes after determining that the wastes present
a substantial threat to human health when improperly managed because they are
contaminated with, or are likely to be contaminated with, infectious agents;
and
(h) Any other waste materials the
generator designates as infectious waste.
(J) [Reserved.]
(K) [Reserved.]
(L) [Reserved.]
(M) [Reserved.]
(N) [Reserved.]
(O)
(1)
"Off-site infectious waste treatment facility" means any
infectious waste treatment facility
, as defined in rule
3745-500-02 of the
Administrative Code, for which a license is required under division (B)
of section
3734.05 of the Revised Code or
any solid waste
incineration
incinerator facility
, as
defined in rule
3745-500-02 of the
Administrative Code, with a license issued under division (A) of section
3734.05 of the Revised Code
which
that
includes a notation authorizing the treatment of infectious wastes.
(2) "Operator" or "facility operator"
means the person responsible for the on-site
supervision of technical operations and maintenance of a solid waste,
construction and demolition debris, infectious waste, or industrial facility,
or any parts thereof, which may affect the performance of the facility and its
potential health or environmental impact or any person who has authority to
make discretionary decisions concerning the daily operation of the solid waste,
construction and demolition debris, infectious waste, or industrial facility.
"Operator" or "facility operator" also means the person responsible for the
supervision of technical operations of a scrap tire transportation
business
has the same meaning as in rule
3745-500-02 of the
Administrative Code.
(3)
"Owner"
means the person who holds title to the land
on which the solid waste facility, industrial facility, construction and
demolition debris facility, infectious waste treatment facility, or scrap tire
transportation business is located or the person who owns a majority
controlling interest in the facility
has the
same meaning as in rule
3745-500-02 of the
Administrative Code.
(P) [Reserved.]
(Q) [Reserved.]
(R) [Reserved.]
(S) [Reserved.]
(T) "Treasurer" means the treasurer of a
municipal corporation.
(U) [Reserved.]
(V) [Reserved.]
(W) [Reserved.]
(X) [Reserved.]
(Y) [Reserved.]
(Z) [Reserved.]
Notes
Ohio Admin. Code
3745-28-01
Effective:
4/6/2025
Five Year Review (FYR) Dates:
10/17/2024 and
04/06/2030
Promulgated
Under: 119.03
Statutory
Authority: 3734.026
Rule
Amplifies: 3734.024,
3734.025
Prior
Effective Dates: 11/17/1988 (Emer.), 03/09/1989 (Emer.), 06/12/1989,
03/10/1993, 03/09/2009, 03/01/2013
