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font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Barry Stewart [mailto:bstew01@msn.com] <br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, August 12, 2009 6:50 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> pharmwaste@lists.dep.state.fl.us<br>
<b>Subject:</b> RE: mixtures <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><strong><span style='font-family:
"Calibri","sans-serif";color:red'>An excerpt from </span></strong><span
style='font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"Garamond-Bold","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'><strong><span style='font-size:24.0pt;font-family:
"Garamond-Bold","serif"'>Environmental</span></strong><span style='font-size:
24.0pt;font-family:"Garamond-Bold","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'><strong><span style='font-size:24.0pt;font-family:
"Garamond-Bold","serif"'>Protection Agency</span></strong><span
style='font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"Garamond-Bold","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'><strong><span style='font-family:"Garamond-Bold","serif"'>40
CFR Part 260, 261, 264, et al.</span></strong><span style='font-family:"Garamond-Bold","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'><strong><span style='font-family:"Garamond-Bold","serif"'>Amendment
to the Universal Waste Rule:</span></strong><span style='font-family:"Garamond-Bold","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'><strong><span style='font-family:"Garamond-Bold","serif"'>Addition
of Pharmaceuticals; Proposed</span></strong><span style='font-family:"Garamond-Bold","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'><strong><span style='font-family:"Garamond-Bold","serif"'>Rule</span></strong><span
style='font-family:"Garamond-Bold","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";
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<p style='margin-left:.5in'><strong><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:
"Melior","serif"'>"Additionally, while the proposal would cover only those
wastes that are</span></strong><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Melior","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'><strong><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:
"Melior","serif"'>hazardous under the RCRA hazardous waste regulations, the
streamlined</span></strong><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Melior","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'><strong><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:
"Melior","serif"'>management requirements may encourage facilities to manage
the nonhazardous</span></strong><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Melior","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'><strong><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:
"Melior","serif"'>portion of the waste stream in a similar manner as the
hazardous</span></strong><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Melior","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'><strong><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:
"Melior","serif"'>portion. That is, it could simplify the waste determination
process by</span></strong><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Melior","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'><strong><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:
"Melior","serif"'>providing, but not requiring, the opportunity for </span></strong><strong><i><span
style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Melior-Italic","serif"'>all </span></i></strong><strong><span
style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Melior","serif"'>pharmaceutical</span></strong><span
style='font-family:"Melior","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'><strong><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:
"Melior","serif"'>wastes, hazardous or not, to be managed as a single waste
stream."</span></strong><span style='font-family:"Melior","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-family:"Melior","serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-family:"Melior","serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-family:"Melior","serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'><strong><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:
"Melior","serif"'>"Furthermore, thousands of pharmaceuticals are approved
for use,</span></strong><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Melior","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'><strong><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:
"Melior","serif"'>so individual generators of hazardous pharmaceutical wastes
may generate</span></strong><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Melior","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'><strong><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:
"Melior","serif"'>hundreds of different types of pharmaceutical waste, some of
which</span></strong><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Melior","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'><strong><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:
"Melior","serif"'>may be regulated as RCRA hazardous, and some of which are
not. Sorting out</span></strong><span style='font-family:"Melior","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'><strong><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:
"Melior","serif"'>the RCRA regulated pharmaceutical wastes from the
non-hazardous</span></strong><span style='font-family:"Melior","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'><strong><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:
"Melior","serif"'>pharmaceutical wastes at a hospital nursing station or
emergency room can</span></strong><span style='font-family:"Melior","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'><strong><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:
"Melior","serif"'>be difficult, and establishing separate collection of these
small volumes of</span></strong><span style='font-family:"Melior","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'><strong><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:
"Melior","serif"'>hazardous waste from multiple points within a facility, such
as a hospital, in</span></strong><span style='font-family:"Melior","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'><strong><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:
"Melior","serif"'>particular, can be complicated and burdensome for these
generators. In</span></strong><span style='font-family:"Melior","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'><strong><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:
"Melior","serif"'>contrast, industrial generators tend to generate only a few
predictable waste</span></strong><span style='font-family:"Melior","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'><strong><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:
"Melior","serif"'>streams in large quantities at relatively few generation
points in the facility."</span></strong><span style='font-family:"Melior","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-family:"Melior","serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'><strong><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:
"Melior","serif"'>"The Agency expects that the addition of hazardous
pharmaceutical wastes to</span></strong><span style='font-size:7.5pt;
font-family:"Melior","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'><strong><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:
"Melior","serif"'>the UWR will improve the management of such pharmaceutical
wastes by</span></strong><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Melior","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'><strong><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:
"Melior","serif"'>providing a more streamlined waste management system, while
ensuring</span></strong><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Melior","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'><strong><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:
"Melior","serif"'>that they are sent to hazardous waste management facilities
for final disposal.</span></strong><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:
"Melior","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'><strong><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:
"Melior","serif"'>In addition, this proposed rulemaking would increase the
accumulation and</span></strong><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Melior","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'><strong><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:
"Melior","serif"'>storage time limits in comparison to the full RCRA subtitle C
hazardous waste</span></strong><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Melior","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'><strong><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:
"Melior","serif"'>regulations for hazardous pharmaceutical wastes, which would</span></strong><span
style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Melior","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'><strong><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:
"Melior","serif"'>allow facilities to accumulate enough waste to make shipment
through a</span></strong><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Melior","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'><strong><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:
"Melior","serif"'>hazardous waste hauler more cost effective. Finally, while
not required,</span></strong><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Melior","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'><strong><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:
"Melior","serif"'>this proposed rulemaking could facilitate the management of
non-RCRA</span></strong><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Melior","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'><strong><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:
"Melior","serif"'>pharmaceutical wastes as universal wastes. If facilities
choose to manage</span></strong><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Melior","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'><strong><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:
"Melior","serif"'>these non-RCRA pharmaceutical wastes as universal wastes,
then: (1) Health</span></strong><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Melior","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'><strong><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:
"Melior","serif"'>care and other regulated facilities would no longer need to
identify and separate</span></strong><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:
"Melior","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'><strong><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:
"Melior","serif"'>hazardous pharmaceutical wastes from non-hazardous
pharmaceutical wastes;</span></strong><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:
"Melior","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'><strong><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:
"Melior","serif"'>and (2) the regulated community could decide to develop drug
take-back</span></strong><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Melior","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'><strong><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:
"Melior","serif"'>programs, resulting in a decrease in the disposal of
pharmaceutical wastes in</span></strong><span style='font-size:7.5pt;
font-family:"Melior","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'><strong><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:
"Melior","serif"'>municipal solid waste disposal facilities."</span></strong><span
style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Melior","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Melior","serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'><strong><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:
"Melior","serif"'>"UWR will encourage persons to manage other
pharmaceutical wastes in the same</span></strong><span style='font-size:7.5pt;
font-family:"Melior","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'><strong><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:
"Melior","serif"'>manner, particularly those wastes that are not hazardous
under RCRA, but</span></strong><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Melior","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'><strong><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:
"Melior","serif"'>which may nonetheless pose risks. Moreover, EPA expects that
including</span></strong><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Melior","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'><strong><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:
"Melior","serif"'>hazardous pharmaceutical wastes in the UWR will facilitate
the implementation</span></strong><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:
"Melior","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'><strong><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:
"Melior","serif"'>of pharmaceutical take-back programs for retailers and
commercial generators</span></strong><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:
"Melior","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'><strong><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:
"Melior","serif"'>of such wastes, preventing mismanagement. Thus, the Agency</span></strong><span
style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Melior","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'><strong><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:
"Melior","serif"'>expects that increased quantities of pharmaceutical wastes
will be managed</span></strong><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Melior","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'><strong><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:
"Melior","serif"'>in destination facilities that are subject to the full RCRA
subtitle C regulatory</span></strong><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:
"Melior","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'><strong><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:
"Melior","serif"'>controls, as opposed to non-hazardous waste landfills and
combustors."</span></strong><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Melior","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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in EPA's proposed regulations they are suggesting simplification by combining
both waste streams into one- as Universal Pharmaceutical Waste and also
encouraging management of even the non-hazardous pharmaceuticals the same
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