Wisconsin Administrative Code
Department of Natural Resources
NR 600-699 - Environmental Protection - Hazardous Waste Management
Chapter NR 666 - Standards For Managing Specific Hazardous Wastes And Specific Types Of Hazardous Waste Management Facilities
Subchapter P - Hazardous Waste Pharmaceuticals
Section NR 666.503 - Standards for healthcare facilities managing potentially creditable hazardous waste pharmaceuticals

Universal Citation: WI Admin Code § NR 666.503

Current through August 26, 2024

(1) HAZARDOUS WASTE DETERMINATION FOR POTENTIALLY CREDITABLE PHARMACEUTICALS. A healthcare 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 that is listed in subch. D of ch. NR 661 or exhibits a characteristic identified in subch. C of ch. NR 661. A healthcare facility may choose to manage its potentially creditable non -hazardous waste pharmaceuticals as potentially creditable hazardous waste pharmaceuticals under this subchapter.

(2) ACCEPTING POTENTIALLY CREDITABLE HAZARDOUS WASTE PHARMACEUTICALS FROM AN OFF-SITE HEALTHCARE FACILITY THAT IS A VERY SMALL QUANTITY GENERATOR. A healthcare facility may accept potentially creditable hazardous waste pharmaceuticals from an off-site healthcare facility that is a very small quantity generator under s. NR 662.014, without a license or without having interim status, provided the receiving healthcare facilit y meets all of the following:

(a) Is under the control of the same person, as defined in s. NR 660.10(90), as the very small quantity generator healthcare facility that is sending the potential ly creditable hazardous waste pharmaceuticals off -site or has a contractual or other documented business relationship where by the receiving healthcare facility supplies pharmaceuticals to the very small quantity generator healthcare facility. "Control," for the purposes of this section, means the power to direct the policies of the healthcare facility, whether by the ownership of stock, voting rights, or otherwise, except that contractors who operate healthcare facilities on behalf of a different person as defined in s. NR 660.10 may not be deemed to "control" such healthcare facilities.

(b) Is operating under this subchapter for the management of its potentially creditable hazardous waste pharmaceuticals.

(c) Manages the potentially creditable hazardous waste pharmaceuticals that it receives from off-site in compliance with this subchapter.

(d) Keeps records of the potentially creditable hazardous waste pharmaceuticals shipments it receives from off -site for 3 years from the date that the shipment is received.

(3) PROHIBITION. A healthcare facility is prohibited from sending hazardous wastes other than potentially creditable hazardous waste pharmaceuticals to a reverse distributor.

(4) ANNUAL REPORTING BY HEALTHCARE FACILITIES. A healthcare facility is not subject to annual reporting requirements under s. NR 662.041 with respect to potentially creditable hazardous waste pharmaceuticals managed under this subchapter.

(5) RECORDKEEPING BY HEALTHCARE FACILITIES.

(a) A healthcare facility that initiates a shipment of potentially creditable hazardous waste pharmaceuticals to a reverse distributor shall keep all of the following records, paper or electronic, for each shipment of potentially creditable hazardous waste pharmaceuticals for 3 years from the date of shipment:

1. The confirmation of delivery.

2. The shipping papers prepared in accordance with 49 CFR part 172 subpart C, if applicable.

(b) The periods of retention referred to in this section are extended automatically during the course of any unresolved enforcement action regarding the regulated activity, or as requested by the department.

(6) RESPONSE TO SPILLS OF POTENTIALLY CREDITABLE HAZARDOUS WASTE PHARMACEUTICALS AT HEALTHCARE FACILITIES. A healthcare facility shall immediately contain all spills of potentially creditable hazardous waste pharmaceuticals and manage the spill clean -up materials as non-creditable hazardous waste pharmaceuticals in accordance with this subchapter.

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