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<regulation prefix="Regulation" num=".41" citation="COMAR 26.13.10.41" title_num="26" subtitle_num="13" chapter_num="10" heading="Accumulation Time Limit — Non-Creditable Hazardous Waste Pharmaceuticals.">
  <paragraph num="A.">
    <text>A healthcare facility may accumulate a non-creditable hazardous waste pharmaceutical on site for 1 year or less without having to either:</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>Obtain a CHS permit issued under COMAR 26.13.07 that authorizes storage of the pharmaceutical; or</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>Qualify for interim status, as defined in COMAR 26.13.01.03B, with respect to the waste management unit in which the pharmaceutical is being managed.</text>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="B.">
    <text>A healthcare facility that accumulates a non-creditable hazardous waste pharmaceutical on site shall demonstrate the length of time that the non-creditable hazardous waste pharmaceutical has been accumulating, starting from the date that the pharmaceutical first became a waste, as specified in §C of this regulation.</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="C.">
    <text>A healthcare facility shall demonstrate the length of time that a non-creditable hazardous waste pharmaceutical has been accumulating by one or more of the following methods:</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>Marking or labeling the container of the non-creditable hazardous waste pharmaceutical with the date that the non-creditable hazardous waste pharmaceutical became a waste;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>Maintaining an inventory system that identifies the date that the non-creditable hazardous waste pharmaceutical item being accumulated became a waste; or</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(3)">
      <text>Placing the non-creditable hazardous waste pharmaceutical in a specific area in which non-creditable hazardous waste pharmaceuticals are accumulated, identifying the earliest date that any of the non-creditable hazardous waste pharmaceuticals in the area became a waste, and having that information readily available during a compliance inspection, by, for example, marking or labeling the accumulation area with the accumulation start-date, or by entering the current earliest accumulation start-date in a log book or facility operating record.</text>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
</regulation>