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2025 Oregon Revised Statutes
Volume : 13 - Housing, Games, Environment
Chapter 468A - Air Quality
Section 468A.880 - Restriction on combustion of hospital, medical or infectious waste.
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OR Rev Stat § 468A.880 (2025)
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(1) As used in this section:
(a) "Hospital, medical or infectious waste" means hospital waste or medical/infectious waste, as those terms are defined in 40 C.F.R. 60.51c, as in effect on September 24, 2023.
(b) "Municipal solid waste incinerator" means any facility operated before, on or after September 24, 2023, for the purpose of combusting municipal solid waste, regardless of whether the facility is later reclassified as another type of waste combustion facility.
(2) A municipal solid waste incinerator may not combust more than 18,000 tons of hospital, medical or infectious waste during a single calendar year. [2023 c.612 §3]
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