Ohio Administrative Code › Title 3745 - Ohio Environmental Protection Agency › Chapter 3745-28 - Solid Waste Disposal Fees › Section 3745-28-01 - Infectious waste host fee - definitions

Current through all
			 regulations passed and filed through July 1, 2024
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"
			 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)
										 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.