Section 118030.

(a)  A medical waste generator or parent organization that employs health care professionals who generate medical waste may apply to the enforcement agency for a limited-quantity hauling exemption, if the generator or health care professional meets all of the following requirements:

(1)  The generator or health care professional generates less than 20 pounds of medical waste per week, transports less than 20 pounds of medical waste at any one time, and the generator or parent organization has on file one of the following:

(A)  If the generator or parent organization is a small quantity generator required to register pursuant to Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 117915), a medical waste management plan prepared pursuant to Section 117935.

(B)  If the generator or parent organization is a small quantity generator not required to register pursuant to Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 117915), the information document maintained pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 117945.

(C)  If the parent organization is a large quantity generator, a medical waste management plan prepared pursuant to Section 117960.

(2)  The generator or health care professional who generated the medical waste transports the medical waste himself or herself, or directs a member of his or her staff to transport the medical waste, to a permitted medical waste treatment facility, a transfer station, a parent organization, or another health care facility for the purpose of consolidation before treatment and disposal.

(3)  Except as provided in paragraph (4), the generator maintains a tracking document, as specified in Section 118040.

(4)  (A)  Notwithstanding paragraph (3), if a health care professional who generates medical waste returns the medical waste to the parent organization, a single-page form or multiple entry log may be substituted for the tracking document, if the form or log contains all of the following information:

(i)  The name of the person transporting the medical waste.

(ii)  The number of containers and type of medical waste. This subparagraph does not require any generator to maintain a separate medical waste container for every patient or to maintain records as to the specified source of the medical waste in any container.

(iii)  The date that the medical waste was returned.

(B)  This paragraph does not prohibit the use of a single document to verify the return of more than one container over a period of time, if the form or log is maintained in the files of the parent organization once the page is completed.

(b)  The limited-quantity hauling exemption authorized by this section is valid for a period of one year.

(c)  An application for an initial or a renewal of a limited-quantity hauling exemption shall be accompanied by a fee of twenty-five dollars ($25). The application shall identify each person who will transport medical waste for the transporter. If the generator or parent organization identifies more than four persons who will be transporting medical waste, the generator or parent organization shall pay an additional fee of five dollars ($5) for each person, up to a maximum additional fee of twenty-five dollars ($25).

(Added by renumbering Section 25061 by Stats. 1996, Ch. 536, Sec. 13. Effective January 1, 1997.)