Arizona Administrative Code
Title 18 - ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY
Chapter 13 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY - SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT
Article 14 - BIOHAZARDOUS MEDICAL WASTE AND DISCARDED DRUGS
Section R18-13-1403 - Exemptions; Partial Exemptions

1. Law enforcement personnel handling biohazardous medical waste for law enforcement purposes.

2. A person in possession of medical waste that is regulated by a state or federal agency due to its radioactive nature.

3. A person who returns unused medical sharps to the manufacturer.

4. A household generator residing in a private, public, or semi-public residence who generates biohazardous medical waste in the administration of self care or the agent of the household generator who administers the medical care. This exemption does not apply to the facility in which the person resides if that facility is licensed by the Arizona Department of Health Services.

5. A generator that separates medical devices from the medical waste stream that are sent out for re-processing and returned to the generator.

6. A person in possession of human bodies regulated by A.R.S. Title 36.

1. A person who prepares human corpses, remains, and anatomical parts that are intended for interment or cremation. However, medical sharps must be disposed of as prescribed by this Article.

2. A person who operates an emergency rescue vehicle, an ambulance, or a blood service collection vehicle in the course of providing medical services if the biohazardous medical waste is returned to the home facility for disposal. This facility is considered to be the point of generation for packaging, treatment, and disposal.

3. A person who discharges liquid and semi-liquid biohazardous medical wastes, excluding cultures and stocks, to the sanitary sewer system if the operator of the wastewater sewer system and treatment facility allows, permits, authorizes, or otherwise approves of the discharges.

4. Hazardous waste regulated by A.R.S. Title 49, Chapter 5.

5. A health care worker who uses a multi-purpose vehicle in the conduct of routine health care business other than transporting waste is exempt from the requirements of R18-13-1409 if the health care worker complies with all of the following:

6. A person who transports biohazardous medical waste between multiple properties separated by a public thoroughfare and which is owned or operated by the same owner or governmental entity is exempt from the requirements of R18-13-1409 if the person complies with R18-13-1403(B)(5)(a) through (e).

7. A hospital that chooses to accept medical sharps from staff physicians who generate medical sharps in a private practice is exempt from the requirement to obtain facility plan approval as long as the hospital collects medical sharps for off-site treatment or disposal.

1. A generator who treats biohazardous medical waste on site and who accepts for treatment medical waste described in R18-13-1403(A)(4) is exempt from the requirement to obtain solid waste facility plan approval prescribed in R18-13-1410.

2. A generator who self-hauls biohazardous medical waste to a Department-approved medical waste treatment, storage, transfer, or disposal facility is exempt from the requirements of R18-13-1409 if the generator complies with R18-13-1403(B)(5)(a) through (e).