Introduced
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Require the Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) to provide a report to the legislature within 18 months reviewing all methods to dispose medical waste, and ranking them based on their effect on the environment. The bill also would prohibit the DEQ from issuing or renewing a permit medical waste incinerator until 180 days after the report was submitted.
Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources and Environmental Affairs
Substitute offered
To replace the previous version of the bill with one which also requires the DEQ to promulgate new air pollution controls for medical waste incinerations.
The substitute passed by voice vote
Passed in the Senate 37 to 0 (details)
To require the Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) to provide a report to the legislature within 18 months reviewing all methods to dispose medical waste, and ranking them based on their effect on the environment. The bill also would prohibit the DEQ from issuing or renewing a permit for a medical waste incinerator until 180 days after the report was submitted, and require new air pollution controls for medical waste incinerations.
Passed in the House 96 to 0 (details)
Require the Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) to provide a report to the legislature within 18 months reviewing all methods to dispose medical waste, and ranking them based on their effect on the environment. The bill also would prohibit the DEQ from issuing or renewing a permit for a medical waste incinerator until 180 days after the report was submitted, and require new air pollution controls for medical waste incinerations.
