Source: http://legislature.maine.gov/statutes/38/title38sec1319-O.html
Timestamp: 2019-04-25 10:29:37+00:00

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1. Hazardous waste. This subsection governs rulemaking for hazardous waste.
A. The commissioner may adopt and amend rules identifying hazardous waste. It is the intent of the Legislature that the commissioner shall identify as hazardous waste those substances that are identified by the United States Environmental Protection Agency in proposed or final regulations. The Legislature also intends that the commissioner may identify as hazardous waste, in accordance with subparagraph (2), other substances in addition to those identified by the United States Environmental Protection Agency. Further, the Legislature intends that a substance that has been identified as a hazardous waste by the commissioner may be removed from identification only by further rulemaking by the commissioner.
Hazardous waste may be identified as follows.
(1) The commissioner may identify any substance as a hazardous waste if that substance is identified as hazardous by particular substance, by characteristic, by chemical class or as a waste product of a specific industrial activity in proposed or final rules of the United States Environmental Protection Agency.
Rules adopted under this subparagraph must be submitted to the joint standing committee of the Legislature having jurisdiction over natural resources for review.
(3) Whenever the commissioner proposes to adopt or amend rules identifying hazardous waste or removing hazardous waste from identification, the comissioner shall hold a public hearing.
(3) Financial ability to comply with statutory and regulatory requirements or conditions.
2. Waste oil. This subsection governs rulemaking for waste oil.
3. Handling and disposal of biomedical waste. The commissioner shall adopt rules relating to the packaging, labeling, handling, storage, collection, transportation, treatment and disposal of biomedical waste, including infectious and pathogenic waste, to protect public health, safety and welfare and the environment.
(2) The generator to mail properly packaged sharps to a licensed biomedical waste disposal facility in this State or a facility in another state if the carrier accepts those items and no more than 50 pounds are transported in any single package.
1987, c. 517, §28 (NEW). 1989, c. 124, §§2,3 (AMD). 1989, c. 794, §4 (AMD). 1989, c. 869, §§A10,11,21 (AMD). 1989, c. 890, §§A40,B261 (AMD). 1993, c. 529, §1 (AMD). 1995, c. 573, §§4,5 (AMD). 1997, c. 624, §18 (AMD). 1999, c. 340, §1 (AMD). 2005, c. 549, §6 (AMD). 2015, c. 124, §9 (AMD).

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