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Arkansas Code Title 8. Environmental Law § 8-6-1304. Applicability

Current as of March 28, 2024 | Updated by Findlaw Staff

(a) This subchapter shall not apply to medical waste incineration facilities constructed and operating before March 20, 1992, or to medical waste incineration facilities operated by healthcare facilities for the purpose of disposing of medical waste.

(b) This subchapter shall not apply to permits for renovations to medical waste incineration facilities constructed and operating before March 20, 1992, either through modification or additional construction, provided that such renovations are for the purpose of:

(1) Complying with the rules or regulations or standards imposed by local, state, or United States Government agencies; or

(2) Adding additional waste disposal capacity to a medical waste incineration facility constructed and operating before March 20, 1992.

(c)(1) The requirements of this subchapter shall apply to any commercial medical waste incineration facility that has not initiated operation prior to March 1, 1995.

(2) For the purposes of construing this subsection and the application of this subchapter, initiation of operations has not occurred until the Division of Environmental Quality has approved the installation of all permitted pollution control equipment and the commercial medical waste incineration facility is receiving medical waste for incineration.

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