<html><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); font-family: 'Courier New'; "><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><strong><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: red; ">An excerpt from</span></strong><span style="font-size: 24pt; font-family: Garamond-Bold, serif; "><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><strong><span style="font-size: 24pt; font-family: Garamond-Bold, serif; ">Environmental</span></strong><span style="font-size: 24pt; font-family: Garamond-Bold, serif; "><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><strong><span style="font-size: 24pt; font-family: Garamond-Bold, serif; ">Protection Agency</span></strong><span style="font-size: 24pt; font-family: Garamond-Bold, serif; "><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><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-right: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><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-right: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><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-right: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><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-right: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 7.5pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; color: white; ">VerDate Aug<</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><strong><span style="font-size: 18pt; 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-right: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><strong><span style="font-size: 18pt; 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-right: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><strong><span style="font-size: 18pt; 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-right: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><strong><span style="font-size: 18pt; 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-right: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><strong><span style="font-size: 18pt; 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-right: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><strong><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: Melior, serif; ">providing, but not requiring, the opportunity for </span></strong><strong><i><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: Melior-Italic, serif; ">all</span></i></strong><strong><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: Melior, serif; ">pharmaceutical</span></strong><span style="font-family: Melior, serif; "><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><strong><span style="font-size: 18pt; 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-right: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-family: Melior, serif; "> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-family: Melior, serif; "> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-family: Melior, serif; "> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><strong><span style="font-size: 18pt; 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-right: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><strong><span style="font-size: 18pt; 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-right: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><strong><span style="font-size: 18pt; 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-right: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><strong><span style="font-size: 18pt; 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-right: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><strong><span style="font-size: 18pt; 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-right: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><strong><span style="font-size: 18pt; 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-right: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><strong><span style="font-size: 18pt; 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-right: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><strong><span style="font-size: 18pt; 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-right: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><strong><span style="font-size: 18pt; 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-right: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><strong><span style="font-size: 18pt; 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-right: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><strong><span style="font-size: 18pt; 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-right: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-family: Melior, serif; "> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><strong><span style="font-size: 18pt; 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-right: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><strong><span style="font-size: 18pt; 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-right: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><strong><span style="font-size: 18pt; 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-right: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><strong><span style="font-size: 18pt; 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-right: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><strong><span style="font-size: 18pt; 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-right: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><strong><span style="font-size: 18pt; 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-right: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><strong><span style="font-size: 18pt; 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-right: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><strong><span style="font-size: 18pt; 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-right: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><strong><span style="font-size: 18pt; 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-right: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><strong><span style="font-size: 18pt; 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-right: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><strong><span style="font-size: 18pt; 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-right: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><strong><span style="font-size: 18pt; 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-right: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><strong><span style="font-size: 18pt; 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-right: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><strong><span style="font-size: 18pt; 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-right: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><strong><span style="font-size: 18pt; 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-right: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><strong><span style="font-size: 18pt; 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-right: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><strong><span style="font-size: 18pt; 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-right: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 7.5pt; font-family: Melior, serif; "> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><strong><span style="font-size: 18pt; 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-right: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><strong><span style="font-size: 18pt; 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-right: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><strong><span style="font-size: 18pt; 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-right: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><strong><span style="font-size: 18pt; 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-right: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><strong><span style="font-size: 18pt; 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-right: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><strong><span style="font-size: 18pt; 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-right: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><strong><span style="font-size: 18pt; 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-right: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><strong><span style="font-size: 18pt; 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-right: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><strong><span style="font-size: 18pt; 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></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Actually 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 as the hazardous ones. </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Barry E. 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