Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:31.34 – Infectious waste permits
Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:31.34
- Department: means the Louisiana Department of Health except in instances of the issuance of licenses and the collection of fees from transporters and haulers of sewage sludge or biosolids, when "department" means the Department of Environmental Quality. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:31.31
A. The department shall charge and collect an annual infectious waste permit fee from each transporter of potentially infectious biomedical waste for which a permit is required under the state Sanitary Code. The fee shall be two hundred dollars for each transporter facility, including one transport body or vehicle, plus fifty dollars for each additional vehicle.
B. The department shall charge and collect an annual infectious waste permit fee for each facility for storage and treatment of potentially infectious biomedical waste for which a permit is required by the state Sanitary Code. The fee shall be two hundred dollars per storage site or storage and treatment site.
C. A properly permitted transport body or vehicle used for the storage at the site of a generator of potentially infectious biomedical waste will not be required to have a storage permit.
D. The fees established in this Section shall replace the fees promulgated in the July 20, 1991, Louisiana Register and shall apply to renewals of said permits.
Acts 2000, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 125, §1, eff. July 1, 2000.