Title 42 — The Public Health and WelfareRelease 119-73

§6992c Inspections

Title 42 › Chapter CHAPTER 82— - SOLID WASTE DISPOSAL › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER X— - DEMONSTRATION MEDICAL WASTE TRACKING PROGRAM › § 6992c

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

EPA workers can ask anyone who makes, stores, treats, moves, disposes of, or handles medical waste to give information, show tracking forms, do tests or monitoring, and let the workers see and copy records at reasonable times. The workers may enter places where medical waste is or was handled, do testing, and take samples of waste, containers, or labels. Inspections must start and finish without unnecessary delay. If samples are taken, the worker must give a receipt and, if asked and possible, an equal portion of the sample. Test results must be given quickly to the person in charge. Records and reports are handled under section 6927(b) the same way as other records covered by section 6927.

Full Legal Text

Title 42, §6992c

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(a)For purposes of developing or assisting in the development of any regulation or report under this subchapter or enforcing any provision of this subchapter, any person who generates, stores, treats, transports, disposes of, or otherwise handles or has handled medical waste shall, upon request of any officer, employee, or representative of the Environmental Protection Agency duly designated by the Administrator, furnish information relating to such waste, including any tracking forms required to be maintained under section 6992b of this title, conduct monitoring or testing, and permit such person at all reasonable times to have access to, and to copy, all records relating to such waste. For such purposes, such officers, employees, or representatives are authorized to—

(1)enter at reasonable times any establishment or other place where medical wastes are or have been generated, stored, treated, disposed of, or transported from;

(2)conduct monitoring or testing; and

(3)inspect and obtain samples from any person of any such wastes and samples of any containers or labeling for such wastes.

(b)Each inspection under this section shall be commenced and completed with reasonable promptness. If the officer, employee, or representative obtains any samples, prior to leaving the premises he shall give to the owner, operator, or agent in charge a receipt describing the sample obtained and, if requested, a portion of each such sample equal in volume or weight to the portion retained if giving such an equal portion is feasible. If any analysis is made of such samples, a copy of the results of such analysis shall be furnished promptly to the owner, operator, or agent in charge of the premises concerned.

(c)The provisions of section 6927(b) of this title shall apply to records, reports, and information obtained under this section in the same manner and to the same extent as such provisions apply to records, reports, and information obtained under section 6927 of this title.

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Citation

42 U.S.C. § 6992c

Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73