The public health authority may exercise, for such period as the state of public health emergency exists, the following powers regarding the safe disposal of infectious waste.

(a) Adopt Measures. To adopt and enforce measures to provide for the safe disposal of infectious waste as may be reasonable and necessary to respond to the public health emergency. Such measures may include, but are not limited to, the collection, storage, handling, destruction, treatment, transportation and disposal of infectious waste.

(b) Control of Facilities. To require any business or facility authorized to collect, store, handle, destroy, treat, transport and dispose of infectious waste under the laws of Guam, and any landfill business or other such property, to accept infectious waste, or provide services or the use of the business, facility, or property if such action is reasonable and necessary to respond to the public health emergency as a condition of licensure, authorization or the ability to continue doing business on Guam as such a business or facility. The
use of the business, facility or property may include transferring the management and supervision of such business, facility or property to the public health authority for a limited or unlimited period of time, but shall not exceed the termination of the declaration of a state of public health emergency.

(c) Use of Facilities. To procure, by condemnation or otherwise, any business or facility authorized to collect, store, handle, destroy, treat, transport and dispose of infectious waste under the laws of Guam, and any landfill business or other such property as may be reasonable and necessary to respond to the public health emergency, with the right to take immediate possession thereof.

(d) Identification. All bags, boxes or other containers for infectious waste shall be clearly identified as containing infectious waste, and if known, the type of infectious waste.