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General Assembly Committee Bill No. 80
January Session, 2025
LCO No. 3564
Referred to Committee on ENVIRONMENT
Introduced by:
(ENV)
AN ACT CONCERNING THE BURNING OF MEDICAL WASTE.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
Section 1. (NEW) (Effective from passage) No person shall operate a 1
medical waste incinerator unless such incinerator is in compliance with 2
all standards of the United States Environmental Protection Agency for 3
medical waste incinerators. The Commissioner of Energy and 4
Environmental Protection may adopt regulations, in accordance with 5
the provisions of chapter 54 of the general statutes, to provide for the 6
enforcement of the provisions of this section. 7
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following
sections:
Section 1 from passage New section
Statement of Purpose:
To prohibit the burning of medical waste by facilities that do not meet
EPA standards for the burning of such waste.
Committee Bill No. 80
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[Proposed deletions are enclosed in brackets. Proposed additions are indicated by underline, except
that when the entire text of a bill or resolution or a section of a bill or resolution is new, it is not
underlined.]
Co-Sponsors: SEN. MARTIN, 31st Dist.
S.B. 80