North Dakota Administrative Code
Title 33.1 - Department of Environmental Quality
Article 33.1-24 - Hazardous Waste Management
Chapter 33.1-24-05 - Standards for Treatment, Storage, and Disposal Facilities and for the Management of Specific Hazardous Wastes and Specific Types of Hazardous Waste Management Facilities
MISCELLANEOUS UNITS
Section 33.1-24-05-313 - Standards for health care facilities managing potentially creditable hazardous waste pharmaceuticals

1. Hazardous waste determination for potentially creditable pharmaceuticals. A health care facility that generates a solid waste that is a potentially creditable pharmaceutical shall determine whether the potentially creditable pharmaceutical is a potentially creditable hazardous waste pharmaceutical, i.e., it is listed in sections 33.1-24-02-15 through 33.1-24-02-189 or exhibits a characteristic identified in sections 33.1-24-02-10 through 33.1-24-02-14. A health care facility may choose to manage its potentially creditable nonhazardous waste pharmaceuticals as potentially creditable hazardous waste pharmaceuticals under sections 33.1-24-05-310 through 33.1-24-05-320.

2. Accepting potentially creditable hazardous waste pharmaceuticals from an offsite health care facility that is a very small quantity generator. A health care facility may accept potentially creditable hazardous waste pharmaceuticals from an offsite health care facility that is a very small quantity generator under section 33.1-24-03-26 without a permit, provided the receiving health care facility:

3. Prohibition. Health care facilities are prohibited from sending hazardous wastes other than potentially creditable hazardous waste pharmaceuticals to a reverse distributor.

4. Biennial reporting by health care facilities. Health care facilities are not subject to biennial reporting requirements under section 33.1-24-03-14 with respect to potentially creditable hazardous waste pharmaceuticals managed under this subpart.

5. Recordkeeping by health care facilities.

6. Response to spills of potentially creditable hazardous waste pharmaceuticals at health care facilities. A health care facility immediately shall contain all spills of potentially creditable hazardous waste pharmaceuticals and manage the spill cleanup materials as noncreditable hazardous waste pharmaceuticals in accordance with sections 33.1-24-05-310 through 33.1-24-05-320.