Section 526.15. Infectious waste annual reports.

  An infectious waste generator which is either required to use manifests under s. NR 526.14 or to submit progress reports on medical waste reduction under s. NR 526.21 shall submit an annual report to the department on a form supplied by the department and the annual filing fee for the infectious waste annual report, as specified in s. NR 520.04 , Table 2. An annual report form submitted by a medical facility shall be signed by the director of the facility. An annual report form submitted by other infectious waste generators shall be signed by the administrator, chief executive officer or board of directors.

(1)   Groups of generators. Infectious waste generators who manifest infectious waste as a group may choose to submit a single annual report on behalf of the group and which is signed by the director of each generator in the group. Except as required under s. NR 526.21 (1) , the annual report shall be submitted by March 1 for activities performed during the preceding calendar year.

(2)   Generators of mass vaccination waste . This subsection applies to persons generating infectious waste during emergency mass vaccinations, including but not limited to smallpox and excluding routine vaccinations. The filing status of these generators is based on their non-mass vaccination waste, that is, the total amount of waste generated in the year minus the amount of waste generated at mass vaccination clinic or clinics. These generators are required to file an annual report only if they are required to file an annual report under this section based on their non-mass vaccination waste. Their annual report shall include the amount of the infectious waste generated at the mass vaccination clinic or clinics. Conversely, if generators of infectious waste from emergency mass vaccinations are not required to file an annual report under this section, based on their non-mass vaccination waste, they do not need to file the annual report or report the amount of their mass vaccination waste.

History: Cr. Register, October, 1994, No. 466 , eff. 11-1-94; am., Register, June, 1996, No. 486 , eff. 7-1-96; CR 05-020 : r. and recr. Register January 2006 No. 601 , eff. 2-1-06.

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Infectious waste annual report forms (DNR form 4400-177) may be obtained from the Department of Natural Resources, Bureau of Waste Management, 101 S. Webster Street, P.O. Box 7921, Madison, WI 52707-7921. Phone number 608-266-2111. The forms are also available on DNR's website, http://dnr.wi.gov . Microsoft Windows NT 6.1.7601 Service Pack 1