Subdivision 1. Applicability. The definitions in this section apply to sections 116.76 to 116.83.
Subd. 2. Agency. "Agency" means the Pollution Control Agency.
Subd. 3. Blood. "Blood" means waste human blood and blood products in containers, or solid waste saturated and dripping human blood or blood products. Human blood products include serum, plasma, and other blood components.
Subd. 4. Commercial transporter. "Commercial transporter" means a person, other than the United States government, who transports infectious or pathological waste for compensation.
Subd. 5. Commissioner. "Commissioner" means the commissioner of the Pollution Control Agency.
Subd. 6. Decontamination. "Decontamination" means rendering infectious waste safe for routine handling as a solid waste.
Subd. 7. [Repealed, 1Sp1993 c 1 art 9 s 75]
Subd. 8. Facility. "Facility" means a site where infectious waste is generated, stored, decontaminated, incinerated, or disposed.
Subd. 9. Generator. "Generator" means a person whose activities produce infectious waste. "Generator" does not include a person who produces sharps as a result of administering medication to oneself. "Generator" does not include an ambulance service licensed under section 144E.10, an eligible community health board, or public health nursing agency as defined in section 116.78, subdivision 10, or a program providing school health service under section 121A.21.
Subd. 10. Household. "Household" means a single detached dwelling unit or a single unit of a multiple dwelling.
Subd. 11. Infectious agent. "Infectious agent" means an organism that is capable of producing infection or infectious disease in humans.
Subd. 12. Infectious waste. "Infectious waste" means laboratory waste, blood, regulated body fluids, sharps, and research animal waste that have not been decontaminated.
Subd. 13. Laboratory waste. "Laboratory waste" means waste cultures and stocks of agents that are generated from a laboratory and are infectious to humans; discarded contaminated items used to inoculate, transfer, or otherwise manipulate cultures or stocks of agents that are infectious to humans; wastes from the production of biological agents that are infectious to humans; and discarded live or attenuated vaccines that are infectious to humans.
Subd. 14. Pathological waste. "Pathological waste" means human tissues and body parts removed accidentally or during surgery or autopsy intended for disposal.
Subd. 15. Person. "Person" means an individual, partnership, association, public or private corporation, or other legal entity, the United States government, an interstate body, the state, and an agency, department, or political subdivision of the state.
Subd. 16. Regulated human body fluids. "Regulated human body fluids" means cerebrospinal fluid, synovial fluid, pleural fluid, peritoneal fluid, pericardial fluid, and amniotic fluid that are in containers or that drip freely from body fluid soaked solid waste items.
Subd. 17. Research animal waste. "Research animal waste" means carcasses, body parts, and blood derived from animals knowingly and intentionally exposed to agents that are infectious to humans for the purpose of research, production of biologicals, or testing of pharmaceuticals.
Subd. 18. Sharps. "Sharps" means:
(1) discarded items that can induce subdermal inoculation of infectious agents, including needles, lancets, scalpel blades, pipettes, and other items derived from human or animal patient care, blood banks, laboratories, mortuaries, research facilities, and industrial operations; and
(2) discarded glass or rigid plastic vials containing infectious agents.
1989 c 337 s 2; 1990 c 568 art 2 s 2; 1993 c 206 s 3; 1Sp1993 c 1 art 9 s 2; 1Sp1993 c 6 s 3; 1994 c 585 s 36; 1997 c 199 s 14; 1998 c 397 art 11 s 3; 2010 c 286 s 1; 2015 c 21 art 1 s 109
Structure Minnesota Statutes
Chapters 114C - 116I — Environmental Protection
Chapter 116 — Pollution Control Agency
Section 116.011 — Pollution Report.
Section 116.02 — Pollution Control Agency; Creation And Powers.
Section 116.03 — Commissioner.
Section 116.04 — Executive Secretary.
Section 116.061 — Air Pollution; Emissions And Abatement.
Section 116.07 — Powers And Duties.
Section 116.071 — Cause Of Action For Abandoning Hazardous Waste On Property Of Another.
Section 116.0711 — Feedlot Permits; Conditions; County Grants.
Section 116.0712 — Modified Level One Feedlot Inventory.
Section 116.0713 — Livestock Odor.
Section 116.0715 — Limit On Basis For Action.
Section 116.0716 — Rule Variance.
Section 116.0717 — Minerals Deposition.
Section 116.072 — Administrative Penalties.
Section 116.073 — Field Citations.
Section 116.074 — Notice Of Permit Conditions To Local Governments.
Section 116.075 — Hearings And Records Public.
Section 116.081 — Prohibitions; Air Contaminant And Waste Facilities And Systems.
Section 116.082 — Burning Leaves; Local Ordinances.
Section 116.091 — Systems And Facilities.
Section 116.10 — Policy; Long-range Plan; Purpose.
Section 116.101 — Hazardous Waste; Control And Spill Contingency Plan.
Section 116.11 — Emergency Powers.
Section 116.12 — Hazardous Waste Administration Fees.
Section 116.125 — Notification Of Fee Increases.
Section 116.14 — Hazardous Waste Facilities; Liability Of Guarantor.
Section 116.155 — Remediation Fund.
Section 116.16 — Minnesota State Water Pollution Control Program.
Section 116.163 — Agency Review; Financial Assistance And Bids.
Section 116.165 — Inspection Responsibility.
Section 116.17 — Minnesota State Water Pollution Control Bonds.
Section 116.18 — Water Pollution Control Funds; Appropriations And Bonds.
Section 116.182 — Financial Assistance Program.
Section 116.202 — Coal Tar Sealant; Use And Sale Prohibited.
Section 116.21 — Nutrients In Cleaning Agents And Water Conditioners; Control; Statement Of Policy.
Section 116.23 — Prohibition And Restrictions.
Section 116.26 — Restoring Seized Items.
Section 116.27 — Additional Prohibition.
Section 116.28 — Lists Required.
Section 116.32 — Order To Refrain.
Section 116.33 — Proof Of Offense.
Section 116.34 — Time Limited For Proceedings.
Section 116.35 — Trial Of Offenses.
Section 116.37 — Pcb; Prohibited Use.
Section 116.385 — Trichloroethylene; Ban.
Section 116.39 — Ozone Layer; Preservation.
Section 116.41 — Waste And Waste Facilities Training And Certification.
Section 116.42 — Acid Deposition; Legislative Intent.
Section 116.43 — Acid Deposition Defined.
Section 116.44 — Sensitive Areas; Standards.
Section 116.454 — Monitoring Program.
Section 116.48 — Notification Requirements.
Section 116.482 — Petroleum Release; Notification.
Section 116.49 — Environmental Protection Requirements.
Section 116.491 — Tank Installers; Training And Certification.
Section 116.492 — Basement Storage Tanks; Removal.
Section 116.731 — Requirements To Recycle Cfc's.
Section 116.732 — Requirement To Recycle Fire Extinguisher Halons.
Section 116.733 — Medical Device Exemption.
Section 116.734 — Uniform Cfc Regulation.
Section 116.735 — Training And Certification.
Section 116.78 — Waste Management.
Section 116.79 — Management Plans.
Section 116.80 — Transporting Infectious Waste.
Section 116.801 — Incinerating Infectious Waste; Permit Required.
Section 116.802 — Incinerating Infectious Waste; Environmental Impact.
Section 116.82 — Authority Of Local Government.
Section 116.835 — Safe Sharps Management.
Section 116.84 — Monitors Required For Pcb Incinerators.
Section 116.85 — Monitors Required For Other Incinerators.
Section 116.875 — Authorized Management Methods.
Section 116.88 — Prohibited Methods Of Management.
Section 116.885 — Recycling And Treatment.
Section 116.91 — Citizen Reports Of Environmental Violations.
Section 116.915 — Mercury Reduction.
Section 116.92 — Mercury Emissions; Reduction.
Section 116.921 — Multistate Clearinghouse.
Section 116.925 — Electric Energy; Mercury Emissions Report.
Section 116.93 — Lamp Recycling Facilities.
Section 116.931 — Wheel Weights And Balancing Products; Lead And Mercury Prohibition.
Section 116.9401 — Definitions.
Section 116.9402 — Identifying Chemicals Of High Concern.
Section 116.9403 — Identifying Priority Chemicals.
Section 116.9405 — Applicability.
Section 116.9406 — Donations To The State.
Section 116.9407 — Participating In Interstate Chemicals Clearinghouse.
Section 116.97 — Small Business Air-quality Compliance Assistance Program.
Section 116.98 — Ombudsman For Small Business Air-quality Compliance Assistance Program.
Section 116.99 — Small Business Air-quality Compliance Advisory Council.
Section 116.993 — Small Business Environmental-improvement Loan Program.
Section 116.994 — Small Business Environmental-improvement Loan Accounting.