R 299.9827 Hazardous waste pharmaceuticals and hazardous waste ENDS; standards for healthcare facilities and ENDS retailers that are very small quantity generators for hazardous waste pharmaceuticals or hazardous waste ENDS and non- pharmaceutical hazardous waste.

Rule 827. (1) The requirements of this rule apply to healthcare facilities and ENDS retailers that are very small quantity generators for hazardous waste pharmaceuticals or hazardous waste ENDS and non-pharmaceutical hazardous waste. (2) Healthcare facilities or ENDS retailers that are very small quantity generator for both hazardous waste pharmaceuticals or hazardous waste ENDS and non-pharmaceutical hazardous waste may send its potentially creditable hazardous waste pharmaceuticals to a reverse distributor. (3) Healthcare facilities or ENDS retailers that are very small quantity generator for both hazardous waste pharmaceuticals or hazardous waste ENDS and non-pharmaceutical hazardous waste may send its hazardous waste pharmaceuticals or hazardous waste ENDS off-site to another healthcare facility or ENDS retailer if 1 of the following conditions are met: (a) The receiving healthcare facility or ENDS retailer meets the conditions in R 299.9825(13) and R 299.9826(2), as applicable. (b) The very small quantity generator healthcare facility or ENDS retailer meets the conditions in R 299.9304(1)(e)(xii) and the receiving large quantity generator meets the conditions in R 299.9307(6). (4) A long-term care facility that is a very small quantity generator for both hazardous waste pharmaceuticals or hazardous waste ENDS and non-pharmaceutical hazardous waste may dispose of its hazardous waste pharmaceuticals and hazardous waste ENDS, excluding contaminated personal protective equipment or clean-up materials, in an onsite collection receptacle of an authorized collector that is registered with the United States drug enforcement agency, if the contents are collected, stored, transported, destroyed, and disposed of in compliance with all applicable Unites States Drug Enforcement Agency regulations for controlled substances. (5) A long-term care facility with 20 beds or fewer is presumed to be a very small quantity generator subject to R 299.9304 for both hazardous waste pharmaceuticals or hazardous waste ENDS and non-pharmaceutical hazardous waste and is subject to R 299.9828, R 299.9830, and the optional provisions of R 299.9824 to R 299.9827, R 299.9829, and R 299.9831 to R 299.9833. The director shall demonstrate that a long-term care facility with 20 beds or fewer generates quantities of hazardous waste that are greater than the very small quantity generator limits. A long-term care facility with more than 20 beds that operates as a very small quantity generator under R 299.9304 shall demonstrate that it generates quantities of hazardous waste that are within the very small quantity generator limits.