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                         SENATE BILL 5231

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State of Washington      57th Legislature     2001 Regular Session

By Senators Swecker, Fraser and Franklin

Read first time 01/16/2001.  Referred to Committee on Environment, Energy & Water.

Requiring the treatment of biomedical waste cultures and stocks prior to disposal.

    AN ACT Relating to requiring the treatment of biomedical waste cultures and stocks prior to disposal; adding a new section to chapter 70.95K RCW; and providing an effective date.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

NEW SECTION. Sec. 1.  A new section is added to chapter 70.95K RCW to read as follows:

    Generators of cultures and stocks shall treat those cultures and stocks before final disposal in either of the following ways:  (1) The generators may treat the cultures and stocks before transport from the facility; or (2) segregate the cultures and stocks from other biomedical waste and transport them to a treatment facility.  Cultures and stocks shall not be subject to any process that creates the potential for the generation or release of airborne pathogens from the waste before treatment.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 2.  Section 1 of this act takes effect January 1, 2002.

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