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 33.1-24-05-314 - Health care facilities that are very small quantity generators for both hazardous waste pharmaceuticals and nonpharmaceuticals hazardous waste

1. Potentially creditable hazardous waste pharmaceuticals. A health care facility that is a very small quantity generator for both hazardous waste pharmaceuticals and nonpharmaceutical hazardous waste may send its potentially creditable hazardous waste pharmaceuticals to a reverse distributor.

2. Offsite collection of hazardous waste pharmaceuticals generated by a health care facility that is a very small quantity generator. A health care facility that is a very small quantity generator for both hazardous waste pharmaceuticals and nonpharmaceutical hazardous waste may send its hazardous waste pharmaceuticals offsite to another health care facility, provided:

3. Long-term care facilities that are very small quantity generators. A long-term care facility that is a very small quantity generator for both hazardous waste pharmaceuticals and nonpharmaceutical hazardous waste may dispose of its hazardous waste pharmaceuticals, excluding contaminated personal protective equipment or cleanup materials, in an onsite collection receptacle of an authorized collector, as defined by the drug enforcement administration, that is registered with the drug enforcement administration provided the contents are collected, stored, transported, destroyed, and disposed of in compliance with all applicable drug enforcement administration regulations for controlled substances.

4. Long-term care facilities with twenty beds or fewer. A long-term care facility with twenty beds or fewer is presumed to be a very small quantity generator subject to section 33.1-24-03-26 for both hazardous waste pharmaceuticals and nonpharmaceutical hazardous waste and not subject to sections 33.1-24-05-310 through 33.1-24-05-320, except for sections 33.1-24-05-315 and 33.1-24-05-317, and the other optional provisions of these sections. The department has the responsibility to demonstrate that long-term care facility with twenty beds or fewer generates quantities of hazardous waste in excess of the very small quantity generator limits defined in subsection 167 of section 33.1-24-01-04. A long-term care facility with more than twenty beds that operates as a very small quantity generator under section 33.1-24-03-26 shall demonstrate it generates quantities of hazardous waste that are within the very small quantity generator limits as defined in subsection 167 of section 33.1-24-01-04.