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.
(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.
(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"
includes all of the following substances or
categories of substances
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:
(a) Cultures and stocks of
infectious agents and associated biologicals, including, without limitation,
specimen cultures, cultures and stocks of infectious agents, wastes from
production of biologicals, and discarded live and attenuated
vaccines.
(b)
(a)
Laboratory wastes
that were, or are likely to have been, in contact
with infectious agents that may present a substantial threat to public health
if improperly managed.
;
(c)
(b)
Pathological wastes, including
, without limitation, human and animal tissues,
organs,
and body parts, and body fluids and
excreta that are contaminated with or are likely to be contaminated with
infectious agents
, removed or obtained during
surgery or autopsy or for diagnostic evaluation, provided that, with regard to
pathological wastes from animals, the animals have or are likely to have been
exposed to a zoonotic or infectious agent.
or
zoonotic agents;
(c)
Animal blood and blood products;
(d)
Animal carcasses
and parts;
(d)
(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)(h)
(I)(3) (g)
of this
rule.
(e) Human and animal blood specimens
and blood products that are being disposed of, provided that, with regard to
blood specimens and blood products from animals, the animals were or are likely
to have been exposed to a zoonotic or infectious agent. "Blood products" does
not include patient care waste such as bandages or disposable gowns that are
lightly soiled with blood or other body fluids, unless such wastes are soiled
to the extent that the generator of the wastes determines that they should be
managed as infectious waste.
(f) Contaminated carcasses, body
parts, and bedding of animals that were intentionally exposed to infectious
agents from zoonotic or human diseases during research, production of
biologicals, or testing of pharmaceuticals, and carcasses and bedding of
animals otherwise infected by zoonotic or infectious agents that may present a
substantial threat to public health if improperly managed.
(g)
(f)
Sharp wastes used
in the treatment, diagnosis, or inoculation of human beings or animals
or that have, or are likely to have, come in contact
with infectious agents in medical, research, or industrial laboratories,
including, without limitation, hypodermic needles and syringes, scalpel blades,
and glass articles that have been broken. Such wastes are hereinafter in this
chapter referred to as "sharp infectious waste" or "sharps."
;
(h)
(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
(i)
(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 facility for which a
license is required under division (B) of section
3734.05 of the Revised Code or
any solid waste incineration facility with a license issued under division (A)
of section 3734.05 of the Revised Code
which 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.
(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.
(P) [Reserved.]
(Q) [Reserved.]
(R) [Reserved.]
(S) [Reserved.]
(T) "Treasurer" means the
treasurer means the treasurer of a
municipal corporation.
Notes
Ohio Admin. Code
3745-28-01
Effective:
3/1/2013
R.C.
119.032 review dates:
11/29/2012 and
03/01/2018
Promulgated
Under: 119.03
Statutory
Authority: 3734.021,
3734.026
Rule
Amplifies: 3734.021,
3734.024,
3734.026
Prior
Effective Dates: 11/17/88 (Emer), 3/9/89 (Emer), 6/12/89, 3/10/93,
3/9/09
